EVE Online
Null sec power blocs continue as the structural metagame. CCP balance changes hit the macro layer every quarter; the politics outlast any single patch.
A single-shard space sandbox where bloc warfare, propaganda, and economic sabotage matter as much as combat. Two decades of guild lineage live here.
EVE Online is the longest-running PvP sandbox in the genre, and the only major MMO that has stayed on a single shard for its entire life. The political layer is the actual game. Wars are fought with spies, propaganda campaigns, market sabotage, and forty-thousand-player set-piece fleet engagements that occasionally make mainstream news.
The catalog of EVE guilds maps cleanly to the history of bloc warfare. Goonswarm Federation, Pandemic Legion, Test Alliance Please Ignore, and Northern Coalition are the four anchor entries, with shifting alliances and grudges that span fifteen-plus years.
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4 historical guilds associated with this game. Browse the guild archive.