this is why we can’t have nice things

The real problem with this genre is the fact that humans play it. Here’s some of the worst stuff they’ve done.

Genshin Impact fires voice actor over allegations of grooming, harassment, and abuse

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One of the English voice actors for Genshin Impact has lost his job as a result of some serious allegations leveraged against him. Elliot...

Survival MMO The Day Before struggles to secure trademark as YouTube bans its videos

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Boy, we hope that you're not holding your breath for The Day Before because what was once Steam's most-anticipated title is a hot mess of...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Niantic seems to care more about data collection than public safety

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I was hoping to be more positive as Pokemon GO’s Las Vegas Hoenn Tour is fast approaching, but ever consistent in disappointment, Niantic has...
But in world form.

Mobile MMORPG World of Zenonia resurfaces with a new name and planned connection to the blockchain

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Back in March 2020 we reported on World of Zenonia, an upcoming mobile MMORPG based on the long-running series of action RPGs that primarily...

Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2 communities erupt over GShade malware mod drama

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We're back in the thick of the games modding controversy this week, this time over what was meant to be a benign mod -...

Workers call out Activision-Blizzard management as it reaches $35M settlement with SEC

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A Better ABK, the proto-union workers group that supports the developers at Activision-Blizzard, has once more thrown a spotlight on management malfeasance, sharing its...
Forgot about this?

Final Fantasy XIV director expresses frustration and confusion as another world first clear is won via addon use

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It would appear that Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida has McFreaking had it with addons being used in order for raid...

Riot Games says it won’t be extorted by hackers who breached League of Legends’ source code

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Last weekend, Riot Games told fans of its games that it had been hit with a social engineering attack that led to the compromise...

Parent puts Roblox on blast for her first-hand experiences of troubling games and failed content filtering

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In case you were wondering if the CEO of Roblox was blowing smoke when he talked up "safety and civility," allow one parent's extremely...

Blizzard’s Proletariat ends bid to unionize after unionbusting tactics succeed

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Activision-Blizzard's latest efforts to head off worker unions were apparently successful: Union group Communication Workers of America has ended its bid to launch a...
Glitzy.

A nasty account-destroying exploit is currently ruining Grand Theft Auto Online

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Grand Theft Auto Online is apparently suffering from a nasty exploit that's allowing exploiters to muck up fellow players' accounts and gameplay. The issue was...
Yeah, that makes sense.

Old School RuneScape player reportedly makes off with nearly $120K in cash thanks to an exploit

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Exploits are a problem. Gold farming is a problem. Combine those two and you've got a giga-problem, and you've also got a story out...
Gosh, what a toolbox.

Riot Games lays off 46 workers, adding to this month’s tech toll

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Riot Games is the latest games industry megacorp to issue layoffs this week, though they're smaller in number than the thousands of workers shed...

Bored Ape Yacht Club’s upcoming ‘skill-based mint’ NFT game sparks a speculation market

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While there are many of us normal humans who don't participate in a wildly speculative and volatile market powered by FOMO, art theft, environmental...

Ubisoft’s CEO apologizes for responsibility dodge but fails to mollify strikers

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Yesterday, we reported on the impending Ubisoft Paris worker strike and associated demands for better compensation and reduced work hours, provoked by CEO Yvrs...

Halo Infinite and Elder Scrolls Online teams were hit by Microsoft’s 10,000-person layoff

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Yesterday's Microsoft layoffs were just as bad as anticipated - 10,000 jobs slashed in one day - and it gets worse for gamers, as...

War Thunder players have now leaked military documents a grand total of five times to win forum arguments

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So at MOP we include roundups at the bottoms of some of our articles when we have a lot of similar topics or related...

Microsoft and Unity collectively shed over 10,000 employees in latest round of tech layoffs

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Another round of layoffs are coming to both Microsoft and Unity. Both tech companies are dropping more employees from their respective workforces, with Unity...

It has once again been zero days since a War Thunder player used military documents to win a forum fight

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When we highlighted how War Thunder players had used classified military documents to argue their cases an astonishing three times during our roundup of...

Blizzard claims NetEase rejected a license extension to keep Chinese games (including WoW) up another six months

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When Blizzard and NetEase announced the dissolution of their long-running publishing partnership in China - and the sunset of almost all of Blizzard's games...

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