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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.

NCsoft Q3 2019: Another flat financial quarter as NCsoft pumps money into NCWest

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Given the strange financial quarters that Blizzard, Funcom, Square-Enix, and Nexon had, you're surely wondering how NCsoft fared. And the answer is... about the...

PSA: Star Wars The Old Republic hands out a free pet in honor of Jedi Fallen Order’s launch

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What does a single-player Star Wars game have to do with an MMORPG like Star Wars: The Old Republic? Free pets, that's what! In...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Update 44 launches with new dungeons, areas, and mounts

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New places to explore! New dungeons to delve! The ability to ride a horsey! It's Update 44 and it's live in Dungeons and Dragons...
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TERA’s latest PC patch tweaks classes, offers new leveling event and sweet dragon mounts

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PC players should point their eyeballs toward TERA this week, as En Masse has ponied up an update for the action combat MMORPG that's...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 246: When rock bands play MMORPGs

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Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard and Square's financials, WoW, LOTRO, Pearl Abyss, EverQuest II, AQ3D, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and SWG, and mailbag topics on optional subs and Blizzard's lessons.

The Stream Team: Happy Harvest Festival in RIFT

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Massively OP's MJ has stretched the Halloween events out as far as she could. Today's hop into RIFT's Harvest Festival marks the end of...

Dark Age of Camelot is officially going free-to-play today with Endless Conquest

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We've been talking about it for a few years now, but it's officially happening today: Endless Conquest marks Dark Age of Camelot's first foray...

The Stream Team: The end of Act IX in Path of Exile

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It may yet be an impossible dream, but Massively OP's MJ is that much closer to completing the Path of Exile story before ExileCon!...
treasure hunting is one step from lockboxes

RuneScape is rethinking its monetization after UK report on one player’s alleged $62K spend

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RuneScape is a pretty old game, but it has a new way of doing business as a free-to-play MMORPG with various microtransaction models and...

Lord of the Rings Online’s level 120 gear system sows pay-to-win lockbox confusion

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LOTRO's Minas Morgul expansion released a few days ago, which naturally changed a number of things around. One thing it did shift is how...

The MOP Up: When no one’s online, the terror truly begins

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Halloween may be over, but you can still get your creepy spook on with No Players Online. This is a horror game that uses...

One Shots: Earth, water, fire, air… and heart!

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We all know that a great and terrible power is summoned when you gather together the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and heart....

The Daily Grind: What older MMO’s graphics still hold up today?

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The other night I was playing with some friends in Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the discussion turned to -- oddly enough -- the...

The Stream Team: Kuva Liches are live in Warframe

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Massively OP's MJ is not paranoid: They are here, and they are out to get her. The Kuva Liches are live in Warframe, and...

RuneScape on mobile and movement updates, end of Java support

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The future of RuneScape's technology is the primary topic of the latest developer blog, which provided affirmation of the nearing end of mobile development,...

A gamer has lovingly recreated Beavis and Butt-Head in Star Trek Online

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Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Dumbass. It's five-year mission: To find T.P. for its bunghole. To ruthlessly mock...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2019

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BlizzCon 2019 is behind us, finally, and we're winding down our coverage and trying to put a capstone on the experience. In this week's...

World of Warships launches Midway movie tie-in events ahead of Veterans Day

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If you spend most of your free time in video games and not movie theaters, you might not realize that Midway is releasing this...

Riot swears its Legends of Runeterra CCG won’t be pay-to-win

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It's easy to assume that Legends of Runeterra, the digital CCG from the League of Legends universe, would be just chock-full of "surprise mechanics"...

The Stream Team: The truth of Neverwinter’s Masquerade of Liars

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Neverwinter's event may be called The Masquerade of Liars, but the truth is Halloween is the best no matter what it's called! And Massively...

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