MMO Week in Review: The fastest way to lose $1500 in an MMO

At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. If you missed a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week, you've come to the right post.

This week, a player in EVE Online, most likely someone involved in an RMT deal, managed to kick off the new year right: by getting his unprotected ship and its cargo, $1500 worth of PLEX that didn't need to be transported that way to begin with, blown to smithereens. Is there an MMO Darwin award yet?

Read on for a look at the rest of this week's top MMO stories, though I promise that none will make you facepalm as hard as this one.

	Elite: Dangerous server goes haywire, creates instant billionaires
	The Elder Scrolls Online quietly removes six-month subscriptions
	Guild Wars 2 looks to the future at PAX South
	The Nexus Telegraph: WildStar's past year and future
	The Mog Log: What we know thus far about Final Fantasy XIV 2.5
	Hyperspace Beacon: Five SWTOR predictions for 2015
	The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
	Star Citizen's Chris Roberts looks back on a year of growth
	PlanetSide 2 implant changes aren't a 'money grab,' Smedley says
	Rumors of a major Destiny expansion swirl
	Tree of Savior will launch free-to-play, heads toward first closed beta
	Closers Online goes into open beta
	Pathfinder Online opens up early enrollment
	Project Gorgon is coming to Steam
	MMOs and gaming psychology, part one: The research
	MMOs and gaming psychology, part two: Interview with a researcher

	The Stream Team: Lost in the layers of Landmark's islands
	The Stream Team: Final Fantasy XIV's white magery
	The Stream Team: Goodnight, World of Warcraft
	The Stream Team: A very Venom Marvel Heroes Monday

	Look back on Azeroth's past with classic Eastern Kingdoms images
	WoW Archivist: 3.0.8, the "disaster" patch
	39 facts about garrisons in Warlords of Draenor
	World of Warcraft 10th anniversary ends January 5