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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.

One Shots: Don’t look behind you!

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Oh man, you did it. You clicked on this column and brought a curse onto your head. Right now, something terrifying has materialized out...

LOTRO Legendarium: Examining 2019’s amazing producer’s letter

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I swear, the news never fails to make a monkey out of me. Just the other day I was grousing about how it was...

SuperData January 2019: Digital gaming revenue is down across the board as Fortnite has ‘increasingly lumpy revenue profile’

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Hey so can we just get a do-over on January and maybe February? No? Sigh. SuperData's released its January 2019 report, and surprising no...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

Jukebox Heroes: The 10 greatest MMO soundtracks of all time (as voted by you)

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A few weeks ago we witnessed the showdown of the ages (or at least the epoch known as "late January 2019"), as Massively OP...

Lord of the Rings Online producer’s letter confirms seventh expansion

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The 2019 producer's letter is here for Lord of the Rings Online, and Hobbits and Big Folk alike have plenty to celebrate as they...

The Stream Team: Desert days will never end in Secret World Legends

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At this point, Massively OP's MJ doesn't think she will ever escape Secret World Legends' Egypt. She'll be spitting sand until the bees come...

Massively Overthinking: Contending with the MMO genre’s ‘wowfugee’ crisis

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Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...

MMO industry veteran Bill Roper has departed SpatialOS company Improbable

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If you've been around in MMOs a while, you surely know Bill Roper and his pedigree. He's a former Blizzard developer who went on to helm...

Now confirmed: Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet is suffering heavy layoffs, but the game will continue

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Update: The layoffs have now been confirmed, and ArenaNet has now issued a statement. We're continuing to update this article at the end. Kotaku is...

Hyperspace Beacon: The Star Wars MMOs and communities beyond SWTOR

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Time flies: I am now coming up on nine years of covering Star Wars: The Old Republic professionally. Of course, I was a Star...

Leaderboard: How worried are you for PlanetSide Arena and Daybreak right now?

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Daybreak's Friday-night revelation that it is delaying PlanetSide Arena to summer made me worried. Actually, the revelation that the company would be refunding everyone...

TERA partners with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for bizarre crossover event

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Well, we suppose it was bound to happen eventually: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and TERA are crossing over. Sure, it seems like an odd combination, and...
Weepy weep weep.

Perfect Ten: The bloodiest MMOs of all time

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I am not nor ever have been that much of a fan of gore and blood in video games. Oh, I thought Doom was...

LOTRO gets ready to push progression shards into Moria next month

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Loved or loathed, the underdark of Moria is preparing to draw in a whole new generation of MMO gamers when Lord of the Rings...
Build it up.

LOTRO fan starts petition for Standing Stone to rehire a beloved world builder

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Here's something you don't see every day. It's a fan petition, yes, but it's a fan petition for Standing Stone Games to offer the...

Neverwinter details Undermountain’s stat changes, class overhauls, and item level adjustments

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The recently announced Undermountain expansion coming to Neverwinter this spring will be bringing big things with it, and not just the titular subterranean realm;...

Gamigo is apparently going to throw a party in Cologne

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"Are you planning a vacation in Europe any time soon? If not, you definitely should," exclaims Rift's official Twitter account as it's being used...

RuneScape’s latest patch focuses on bug-fixes and quality-of-life improvements

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A new RuneScape patch went live this week, but after the last few updates -- which, as you might recall, introduced a new questline,...

Apex Legends dataminers unearth Battle Pass details, potential new game mode

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So far, all we know about Apex Legends's upcoming Battle Pass is that it exists and will be introduced to the game when its...

Seek memories in Path of Exile’s newly announced Synthesis league beginning March 8

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Betrayal. Incursion. Prophecy. Breach. Talisman. Nemesis. Ambush. Instead of words of the day, Path of Exile has words of the league. And with so...

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