‘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.
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The Stream Team: Let’s talk Path of Exile Legion
The word is out: Path of Exile is going back in time to a simpler league style. Surely a more customizable version of the...
Path of Exile’s blast-from-the-past Legion League revamps melee and crushes complexity creep on June 7
It's time once again to learn about the next big update for Grinding Gear Games' popular MMOARPG, which will launch for the PC on June 7th, 2019, and hit both consoles on June 10th. I enjoyed sitting down with Producer Chris Wilson to learn the ins and outs of expansion 3.7.0, titled Legion.
Massively OP Podcast Episode 221: Classic Warcraft flavor
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, City of Heroes, Blade and Soul, Star Trek Online, Square Enix, and Dungeon and Dragons Online, with mailbag topics on how WoW Classic fits into the MMO genre and getting back into City of Heroes.
Newly announced MMO Eternal Magic has something ‘for the girls’
Game developer Duoyi and distributor 101XP announced today that they're developing a free-to-play MMORPG that sounds far too good to be true. Eternal Magic,...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online PC Command Dreadnought Cruiser bundle and Discovery starter pack
With Star Trek Online's Rise of Discovery live and officially launched for PC, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to give away...
SuperData April 2019: WoW and Apex Legends depart the revenue rankings, Hearthstone re-enters
Oh hey there Superdata, is it time for another run-down of who's screwing up in the games industry this month and who's making money...
Dauntless launches on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and the Epic Games Store with full crossplay functionality
It's been a long and occasionally bumpy road for Phoenix Labs' free-to-play action-MMORPG Dauntless since it was first announced back in 2016, but after...
Choose My Adventure: My story begins to twist in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Who would have thought that two planets would bring change? I was wholly expecting some generally insular stories from Nar Shaddaa and Balmorra as...
Snag a TERA anniversary gift bundle and celebrate the MMO’s seventh birthday
It's a big month for TERA: En Masse's flagship MMORPG is in the swing of its 7th anniversary celebrations, and we've got a fun...
The Stream Team: Celebrating 11 years of Age of Conan
Another of year of Age of Conan has whizzed by. Today, this iteration of Hyboria celebrates its 11th birthday, and Massively OP's MJ is...
MMO Cartographer: Climbing the Tree of Savior
A friend of mine from one of my other hobbies recommended Tree of Savior to me a while back, but I was deep down...
Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles
This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...
Ex-Cryptic Studios artist decries ‘harmful’ video game lockbox designs based on slot machines
A 3-D character artist who previously worked at Cryptic Studios on Champions Online and Neverwinter has come out swinging against lockbox mechanics, saying that...
Battle Bards Episode 144: Colors of the rainbow
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet: Combined, these forces create the awesome power of Roy G. Biv — otherwise known as the...
The MOP Up: Dauntless’ forums are down for a month as the game goes offline until Tuesday
No doubt that you have heard about Dauntless' launch on Tuesday, May 21st. And while that marks a new beginning for the monster hunting...
The Stream Team: Next up in Warframe is Natah
Massively OP's MJ is on a quest to get through Warframe's biggest story missions before TennoCon, but her time is running out. The goal...
Riot Games isn’t budging on labor dispute even after employee walkout
As we've previously covered, employees of the League of Legends studio Riot Games walked out last week in protest over the company's labor and...
The Jovian Concord improves Gas City and adds Wisp to Warframe next week on PC
As of this next update, Warframe will have 40 unique characters to choose from. Those are a lot of options for taking out waves...
The Daily Grind: Which studio should be running your MMO?
It continues to sadden my heart to see RIFT -- and the rest of the Trion Worlds library -- limp on under the supervision...
Massively Overthinking: Unpopular MMORPG opinions
Unpopular opinions: We all have them. In fact we have so many that it's a straight up meme. This week's Massively Overthinking is one...
