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‘Free-to-play’ is a term that refers to games that do not have box or download fees associated with them and do not incur a mandatory subscription. Some have optional subscriptions and are more properly referred to as hybrid F2P. Most have cash shops and microtransactions.

Trion says the original Defiance is NOT being sunset or neglected for Defiance 2050

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We were all pretty stunned when Trion announced Defiance 2050 last week, and indeed, we fired off a round of questions almost immediately. Trion's...

The Stream Team: Death on SWTOR’s Dyson sphere

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Remember when Massively OP's Larry and MJ could land on a SWTOR planet or station that wasn't trying to kill them? Neither can we!...

Hyperspace Beacon: Carving up the new SWTOR Conquests

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The original Lead Systems Designer for Star Wars: The Old Republic was a man named Damion Schubert. A friend of mine used to call...

Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it

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With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...

Lord of the Rings Online’s road leads on to Update 22’s Northern Mirkwood

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Out of Mordor and into Mirkwood, that's just the way it goes for the Middle-earth adventurer. With Tuesday's Update 22: Legacy of the Necromancer,...

RuneScape goes deep sea fishing

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Every MMO has fishing. Been there, angled that, am I right? But as of this week, RuneScape has taken this sport to the next...

Albion Online’s upcoming fishing system hopes to reel in casuals and hardcores alike

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Fishing has become a hot topic in MMOs this week, thanks to the likes of RuneScape and Albion Online. The latter will see the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 160: Defiance ’till the end

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Justin and Bree discuss Sea of Thieves, Defiance 2050, Funcom, Secret World, Guild Wars 2, and Villagers & Heroes, plus new updates in Neverwinter, WoW, Black Desert, and Path of Exile, with a mailbag question on all the MMOs we're looking forward to.

Check out TERA’s console features preview video ahead of this weekend’s beta

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Still pumped for TERA's Xbox One and PS4 launch this spring? En Masse sure is. The publisher has pushed out a new trailer today...
Goes boom and stuff.

RIFT Prime’s Virgil server launches tomorrow; check out the new forums!

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Did you cast a vote on what RIFT ought to name its RIFT Prime server? Welp it's too late now; the winner was Vigil....

Devilian has officially sunsetted

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At some point, the ending credits have to roll. And Devilian's have started as of 3:00 p.m. EST today. Devil transformations are now a thing...
THE CLAMPS!

Path of Exile gets big numbers for Bestiary league as it tweaks capturing beasts

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What does Path of Exile need to do in order to attract players? It seems like adding in a monster-capturing gameplay league did wonders,...

Star Trek Online knocks off $100 from its lifetime subscription

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Picard and crew might not have needed money in the oh-so-enlightened Federation, but if you're going to grab a lifetime subscription to Star Trek...

Em-8ER lands Firefall’s composer, works on demo

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So what has Mark Kern's Em-8ER been up to these past couple of months? The team shared the latest news about the giant mech...

The MOP Up: Closers chooses its next character (March 4, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Global Chat: Elder Scrolls Online’s disguised gameplay

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It seems as though some players' attention has shifted back to Elder Scrolls Online this spring, especially with the recent Dragon Bones DLC drop. Telwyn...

One Shots: This is too weird for even me

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I like to think that I have a fairly open mind when it comes to accepting strange sights and races in fantasy MMORPGs, but...

Chaos Theory: A guide for Secret World Legends’ new agent network

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Admit it: Ever since your faction handler in Secret World Legends started sending you off on jobs, you've wanted your own underlings to boss...

A Tale in the Desert has launched its eighth Telling since 2003

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Last summer, we included classic sandbox A Tale in the Desert in our Whatever Happened To column as one of those games that had...

The Stream Team: Collecting all the critters in Path of Exile’s new Bestiary League

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As much as Massively OP's MJ was focused on getting her Path of Exile fire witch to endgame, her plans have been completely derailed...

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