‘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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Final Fantasy XIV prepares for another return of the Rising
Every year, the residents of Eorzea in Final Fantasy XIV gather up to think back to the end of the world as part of...
One Shots: Supporting characters
When you look for famous characters in your MMO, you may be looking for someone complete different than the rest of the crowd.
Lt. Commander Hikari...
Age of Conan goes triple bonus on your tanned hide
While a typical summer vacation might involve hanging out at a beach and enjoying a tasty barbeque, in Age of Conan's world that beach...
The Stream Team: Trying Warframe’s Frame Fighter minigame
Massively OP's MJ seems to be all about games within games lately! Now, Warframe has a fighter minigame available on PC. She's never played...
Age of Wushu celebrates seven years of sandbox shenanigans in China
Has it really been seven years since martial arts MMO Age of Wushu first descended on an MMORPG genre that had almost forgotten what...
Star Trek Online encourages players to make Foundry missions for a free Tier 6 ship
The Foundry in Star Trek Online allows you to make almost any sort of mission you can conceive of, but most of those missions...
Champions Online challenges you to a race
Looking for some superheroic fun to occupy your time this weekend? Champions Online has brought back its Circus Malvanum event with its vehicle theme....
A brand-new minigame and a bunch of rocks enter Warframe this week
Did you know that Warframe has minigames buried inside its code? That is indeed a thing, and in fact a new hidden minigame has...
The Stream Team: Secret World Legends Immersion Game must go on
The Game must go on! Massively OP's MJ only made it through v2.0 of the text-based game in Secret World Legends, but there are...
Massively Overthinking: Would you want to play a League of Legends or Diablo MMORPG?
Over the last couple of weeks, we've had some tantalizing rumors and teases that both Riot Games and Blizzard are building something new: Riot's...
Aion details all of its upcoming gear exchange rates for a big equipment overhaul
The progression of equipment and power level in Aion may be a bit overly ornate at the moment, which is why the game's next...
Check out some of the new dwarven zones coming in Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 23
At GenCon earlier this month, Lord of the Rings Online studio Standing Stone dished on some of the goodies coming to the game in...
Battle Bards Episode 126: Out of this world
It’s time to boldly go where no podcast has gone before — by exploring MMO space themes! It’s perhaps the flat-out goofiest and silliest...
Warframe adds a new Platinum pack for Twitch Prime subscribers
Have you taken advantage of Warframe's free giveaways for Twitch Prime subscribers yet? No? Then what are you even doing with your time? Do...
The Stream Team: What comes after SWTOR’s Knights of the Eternal Throne?
Now that Massively OP's Larry and MJ finished SWTOR's KOTET story, what's next? MJ has no idea really. Surely the story must go on...
Black Desert revamps and shortens Savage Rift, implements offline leveling
Black Desert players are being treated to a big update this week featuring the revamp of Savage Rift that basically makes the PvE co-op...
Jagex gets into games publishing while RuneScape crosses $1 billion earned
Jagex isn't content to be "just the RuneScape studio" these days. The company announced today that it is preparing to move into the publishing...
Global Chat: Everybody’s burning up about that Sylvanas thing
Yes, just about every MMO blogger was sharing heated opinions about last week's World of WarCraft WarCrime. "It’s such a sad event and I’m particularly...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 182: Follow the Torchlight
Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, LOTRO, Torchlight Frontiers, Diablo, RuneScape Classic, Trove, and No Man's Sky. And also haiku!
TERA takes to the air with the Guardians of the Sky update
Being on the ground is boring when you could instead be in the air, so it's a good thing that TERA's latest update lets...