The real problem with this genre is the fact that humans play it. Here’s some of the worst stuff they’ve done.
this is why we can’t have nice things
Star Trek Online player is banned following lifetime subscription refund bungle
File this one under "no good deed goes unpunished": A 10-year veteran of Star Trek Online who picked up a lifetime sub to the...
Twitch lowers a (temporary?) banhammer on Donald Trump
Following the shameful events of this past week in Washington D.C. during which an outgoing U.S. president urged supporters to storm the Capitol, many...
WoW Factor: Oh no, not the Sylvanas redemption arc
All right. So. Apparently people wanted to know my response to the new cinematic mined out from within World of Warcraft. Cool. That's easy. My...
Bizarre World of Warcraft stream suggests a surge in botting activity
It looks as if the gold farming bots have found a particularly lucrative location in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. During a recent livestream, WoW...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2020 edition
A few years ago, we started collecting all our cozy, comforting, positive, happy stories under the "warm fuzzies" tag. But we also have another...
CEO of League of Angels and GoT: Winter is Coming dev studio passes away due to suspected poisoning
You perhaps aren't familiar with Shanghai-based Yoozoo Games, but if you've heard of free-to-play games like Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming or League...
Activision did not really ban a 6-year-old gamer trying to stream Warzone with his dad
We've updated this story at the end. In short, this family was fibbing for internet cred.
One of the best parts of having little kids...
PSA: Cyberpunk 2077 includes light sequences known to trigger epileptic seizures
We've all seen it in a wide variety of games that have been recently released: the epilepsy warning about how certain sequences of flashing...
Gamers review bomb Monster Hunter World on Steam over Monster Hunter film
There's a clip from the current Monster Hunter film that's drawn a lot of ire particularly from Chinese audiences, which has resulted in some...
New survey points to increase in hate and harassment in online multiplayer games
The behavior of people in online games does not appear to be improving for the better. According to national survey results from the Anti-Defamation...
Police evacuate Ubisoft Montreal over what appears to have been a fake threat report
According to Canadian news outlet Journal de Montreal (now verified by several other Canadian news agencies), the physical building where Ubisoft Montreal (among multiple...
Albion Online bans more than 600 accounts for buying currency
You are probably aware that buying Silver in Albion Online from a third-party site is not allowed, not least because there's a legitimate first-party option...
Lawful Neutral: The Epic vs. Apple lawsuit – when titans are tweens
The MassivelyOP Golden Yacht was anchored someplace off the coast of Maine when the first news about Epic suing Apple hit. We had sailed...
Counterstrike: Global Offensive players in Australia get a year-long ban for betting on themselves
It turns out that professional athletes placing bets on their own performances in games is generally frowned upon in most sports. This is true...
No, friendos, streamers should not be paying games studios for licenses
Did you miss the debate last night? The debate over whether we should all be paying game companies extra for the pleasure of streaming...
Phantasy Star Online 2 forms an ARKS League and bans over 10K RMT accounts
Want to join the ARKS League? Players of Phantasy Star Online 2 are being invited to do precisely that in an announcement post of...
Dual Universe bans players who took advantage of an official construct’s poor permissions settings
There's something of an uproar occurring in the Dual Universe community involving two players, the game's RDMS system that powers who has access to...
A Black Desert node war bug dumped quadrillions of silver into the North American servers
Protip: If your Black Desert guild mysteriously manages to pull quadrillions of silver in tax from the guild incentive system, maybe just log out...
Canadian class action lawsuit argues EA’s lootboxes constitute illegal gambling
Ah, it's a good thing for the companies relying on lockboxes that people have completely forgotten about those this year, isn't it? Turns out...
World of Warcraft’s new wings have the community in an uproar
Hey look at that, Blizzard is running another promotion to try to lure players into enlisting for a six-month tour in World of Warcraft....
