fragmented

Official site: Fragmented, Steam
Fragmented is the multiplayer survival sandbox spin-off of indie sandbox The Repopulation, built by the same team in the same world and engine. It launched in early access spring 2016.

Fractured Online weathers downtime over a dupe exploit and a failing hard drive

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If there's an MMO community that's more twitchy about hacks than Fractured Online, we haven't met it. Nervous attitudes are to be expected, too,...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: The dungeon finder really did muck up World of Warcraft’s leveling – but not the way you’re thinking

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So if you missed Justin's recent column, he mentioned how bad leveling feels these days in World of Warcraft and some of the reasons...

Global Chat: Do MMOs need help from artificial intelligence?

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With tech news becoming more and more dominated by the sophistication and place of artificial intelligence, blogger Tobold asks if AI might be the...

Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick says Sony won’t return his phone calls

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Bobby Kotick and the Activision-Blizzard board have shied away from investor calls for the last year as the Microsoft buyout looms, but that hasn't...

Microsoft argues Acti-Blizz buyout won’t stifle competition because its games are ‘nothing unique’

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Microsoft is on some weird flex stuff right now, swinging a mighty purse stuffed with $68.7B right at Activision-Blizzard's face while also saying the...

The Game Archaeologist: Defining the eras of MMORPG history

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With MMO history stretching back to the early 1980s (and even before), this genre has accumulated a whole lot of history over the years....

Why WB Games should make a new Asheron’s Call game in 2021+: The mechanics

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Just based on lore alone, WB Games should make a new Asheron's Call game. As I argued last time, AC has the qualities of an underutilized...
Multi-digit division.

Global Chat: Why player representation in games matters

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The recent flap over Escape from Tarkov's public pronouncement of "no icky girls" (my paraphrase) as playable characters in its game elicited more than...

The Survivalist: My top 20 survival game goals for 2020, part the second

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With so many survival titles out there, it's no wonder I couldn't contain my full list of new year goals in a single Survivalist!...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2019

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It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst MMO dev quotes...

CitizenCon 2019: Star Citizen previews alpha 3.8, details Theatres of War, teases next star system

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While the opening beats of Star Citizen's CitizenCon event may have started with some disappointment, the remainder of the event had lots of things...

Wings Over Atreia: Aion would make a better TV show than it does a game

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It is no secret that Aion has frustrated me significantly to the point I can't even log in and play anymore. I get too...

The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two

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Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...

Adjustments to Synthesis are arriving in Path of Exile patch 3.6.3

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Earlier this week, Bree referred to recent life in Path of Exile as "patch city." That holds true once again today as Grinding Gear...
Where am I? No one gets to know.

Interview: Legends of Aria’s dungeon expansion, early access, ganking, housing, and cash shop philosophy

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Indie old-school sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria has become a household name among MMO players over the last few months, first rolling into early...

Tamriel Infinium: Examining the features (and hype!) of Elder Scrolls Online’s Season of the Dragon

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I have mixed feelings about dragons coming to Elder Scrolls Online. Originally, we knew that we would not see them because they were hibernating...

The Survivalist: Which sci-fi crash site survival sandbox should you play?

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Survival sandboxes have certainly come a long way in the last couple of years. Not only has the number of new genres exploded (as...

The Survivalist: Seven survival games I want to love, but can’t… yet

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Well that didn't take long! There are a plethora of survival sandboxes out there for fans to play (as you can see from our...

Make My MMO: Camelot’s new producer, Star Citizen’s alpha 3 features, & SOTA’s R50 (January 27, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained devs say they're getting really close to finalizing the date for beta one. This week, in addition...

Fragmented is ‘more or less in maintenance mode’ due to lack of revenue

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Over the weekend, we added a new entry to our "whatever happened to X" series with a quick note about Fragmented, the survival sandbox...

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