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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.

The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs with ‘rested experience’ in mind?

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Let's talk about rested experience in online games this morning. MMOs call them all sorts of things, but World of Warcraft's has stuck the...
Planted.

Path of Exile confirms that Harvest mechanics will not be coming to the base game… at least not yet

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The current limited-time challenge league in Path of Exile seems to be rather popular with its more deterministic approach to crafting, so it definitely...

Warframe moves Orokin Derelicts and shares details of a ‘frame-eating mouth ahead of Heart of Deimos

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As the Heart of Deimos update to Warframe slowly makes its way to the game, a recent update on PC has done a fair...

NCsoft Q2 2020: Lineage 2M drives revenue as Aion and Lineage flag and Guild Wars 2 rebounds

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MMO readers will recall that NCsoft has been having a big year for revenue, doubling its revenue in the first quarter of this year...

TERA PC brings its 64-bit client and new content online, console adds Quick Signals and offers charity bundles

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TERA players on all platforms have a little something to look forward to this week. As of yesterday, PC players have a new client...

DDO Wayfinder players are getting even more boosts and refunds following three-week rollback

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Last week, Dungeons and Dragons Online players were dismayed to learn that they hadn't quite escaped all the horrors of the LOTRO downtime last...

Meridian 59 and Storybricks’ Brian Green has passed away at only 46

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It's with a very heavy heart today that we report that Brian "Psychochild" Green has passed away at a relatively young age. Green was...
Still running.

The Daily Grind: Do MMOs need to jump onto bandwagons to stay relevant?

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We've been watching TERA's latest move into -- of all things -- MOBAs with a quirked eyebrow and a quizzical expression. We're never quite...

Path of Exile plans another bug-fixing patch in the next couple of weeks

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Just because Path of Exile has started the process of working on its next League doesn't mean the bug fixes for the current game...

War Thunder kicks off Operation S.U.M.M.E.R. 2020, World of Tanks Console had a collab event with WWE

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What goes best with driving heavily armed and armored military vehicles around? Summertime! Also, apparently, professional wrestling! The summer season arrived to both War...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 283: TennoConversations

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Justin, Bree, and MJ discuss Warframe and TennoCon 2020, Crowfall's beta, LOTRO's Rohan housing, DDO's nasty rollback, Blizzard's latest mess, and Guild Wars 2's underwater mounts, with a special edition of the Daily Grind Blitz.
How are you this way.

Wizard101 talks up the arrival of Karamelle, Pirate101 collects community guides

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The August 2020 newsletters for both Pirate101 and Wizard101 are both live, each with their own little tidbits of information and community goodness for...

Amazon just rebranded Twitch Prime as Amazon Gaming, not much else is changing though

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Amazon is apparently retooling Twitch a bit today as it's just announced Prime Gaming, which is basically the same as the Twitch Prime, with...
It lurks.

Riot Games’ Neom esports fiasco came about because people are bad at email

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At the tail end of July, Riot Games managed to piss off gamers, streamers, esports stars, and its own developers by unilaterally announcing a...

The Daily Grind: What do you spend your in-game MMO money on lately?

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A while back, I asked you folks whether you tried to become rich in MMOs, but that Daily Grind didn't go into detail on...

Mabinogi’s P.E.T. Part 2 update lets players bring pets in to dungeons on August 13

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Now that players of Mabinogi have helped their pets attain new levels of power, MMO logic dictates that power gets unleashed on some dungeon...

The MOP Up: Sims Online’s rogue server goes sunbathing

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FreeSO, the rogue server for the late Sims Online, is getting into the spirit of the season with a whole bunch of beach- and...

Jukebox Heroes: It’s time to turn your MMO’s music back on

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We're going to take a detour from our tour of various MMO soundtracks to talk about one of the most common statements I hear...

One Shots: Avoid these vacation destinations

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When you're planning your summer MMO vacation, there will be a lot of places bidding for your time and gold. But not every resort...
Still running.

TERA Battle Arena walks you through how this MOBA works

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Yeah, so, we are still trying to wrap our heads around the weirdness that is TERA's surprising announcement last month that it is going...

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