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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.

TERA is turning seven – here’s what it’s getting you for the occasion

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Wow, it's hard to believe TERA is turning seven in May, but here we are. En Masse has plenty of fun planned too, including...

Drakensang Online’s latest patch brings PvP improvements and the newest iteration of the Helios Games

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The latest update for Bigpoint's free-to-play fantasy MMORPG Drakensang Online is live today, and it brings with it the first of the game's planned...
A weapon!

RuneScape: 2018 financials, clan quality-of-life changes delayed, and Lootscape

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Jagex has big news today: The RuneScape company says 2018 was its best year ever, thanks to a more than 9% increase in revenue...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Cloak of the Vine in honor of Undermountain’s PC launch!

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To celebrate the launch of Undermountain for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 100 cloak keys to give away to our readers! The Cloak of...

Choose My Adventure: The simple joys of RuneScape and duo gameplay

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I've often wondered to myself why there seem to be so many in-development MMORPGs that stubbornly and desperately cling to the idea of the...
Gotta protect that shoulder.

Star Wars: The Old Republic outlines the plans for upcoming reveals surrounding the Onslaught expansion

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A lot of stuff is arriving in Star Wars: The Old Republic with its next expansion, Onslaught. There's a new playable race (Nautolans), two new planets...
It lurks.

Riot Games acknowledges employees planning walkout over company culture

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Over the weekend, we once again covered the continuing fiasco that is League of Legends' Riot Games, when as Kotaku first reported, two of...
Ah, no.

Lord of the Rings Online devs tease an ‘ambitious’ year ahead

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Strap yourself in to the ride that is Lord of the Rings Online, because 2019 is only getting started with this MMO. In the...
Bye.

MMO Cartographer: Exploring Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar

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Since my last report from the field, I have been exploring Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, a game developed by Portalarium, described as a...

One Shots: Cruising in the Batmobile

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Nothing gives me genre whiplash more than seeing technology that's vastly more advanced from anything in our world existing alongside of an otherwise-medieval realm....

Into the Super-verse: Six things that made Marvel Heroes great

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With all of the City of Heroes revival talk lately, our office chat turned in the direction of other MMOs we'd love to see...
Someone must have had fun with this at some point, right?

Riot is trying to divert its employees’ gender-discrimination lawsuit to arbitration

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Hoo boy. Just when it was starting to look like the seemingly interminable saga of Riot's sexual harassment and gender discrimination scandal couldn't get...
Oh, cool.

Kritika Online’s last day up in the west is April 30, but TERA and Closers are offering incentives to refugees

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Next week, the lights go down on Kritika Online. As announced back in March, En Masse is shuttering the game on April 30th after...

The Stream Team: Another Allods anniversary!

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Is eight enough? No! Allods Online is celebrating its eighth anniversary today, and it is storming right on ahead into another year. Massively OP's...
enchantment!

Jukebox Heroes: Diving back into Aion’s soundtrack

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While the game itself never fascinated me, Aion's soundtrack is easily in my personal Top Five in terms of quality and variety. The game...

Warframe of Mind: Massively OP’s guide to finding your ‘Frame

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When I first tried Warframe , I found that I enjoyed the movement system, and I discovered that I really loved headshots with a...

Apex Legends devs discuss season 2, content cadence, and avoiding development crunch

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Although the frankly obscene amount of hype that surrounded Apex Legends in the weeks following its launch earlier this year has subsided to more...
We know what we know.

Massively Overthinking: Is there a ‘do or die’ moment for MMOs now?

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This week MOP's Eliot and I were chatting about the wild summer the MMO industry is about to have, what with a whole bunch...

Warframe tweaks Arbitrations, releases conclusion of Nightwave: The Wolf of Saturn Six in latest PC update

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It's been six months since Warframe introduced Arbitrations, special endgame alert variants that throw players into a variety of particularly challenging scenarios with accordingly...

SWTOR’s James Ohlen is heading up a new Wizards of the Coast game studio working on a new IP

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I guess James Ohlen isn't totally out of game dev quite yet. After announcing his retirement in July of 2018 and then going on...

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