‘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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Hyperspace Beacon: What was not said in the SWTOR 2018 Roadmap
Star Wars: The Old Republic players leaped for joy when Producer Keith Kanneg finally released the winter and spring 2018 roadmap last week. It was...
Interviewing an Asheron’s Call Shard Slayer: On griefing, doxxing, losing mates, and winning MMOs
Last month, I put together an article and pair of videos discussing Asheron's Call's Shard of the Herald event to celebrate the game's first deathiverary....
SuperData says ‘pay-to-play’ MMOs declined again in January 2018
SuperData published its January recap of the worldwide digital games market this week, and the analytics firm doesn't have much good to say for...
Funcom reports that 2017 was the most profitable year in its history
With significantly higher revenue and sales coming in 2017, Funcom announced to its investors that it just came off the most profitable year in...
Defiance 2050 further explains cross-platform play, character carryover, and game mechanics
Still scratching your head a bit about the Defiance 2050 surprise announcement yesterday? We all are. Fortunately, we do have a bit more information...
Neverwinter’s Lost City of Omu update is live for PC players; here’s the launch trailer!
Neverwinter's Lost City of Omu update is live on PC today - yes, PS4 and Xbox One players will have to wait a few...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 159: Panda punching
Justin and Bree discuss all the new stuff coming in March, plus news from TERA, RIFT Prime, H1Z1, Black Desert, Guild Wars 2, and secret projects, with mailbag questions on the fast pace of the site and MMO terminology.
MMO Business Roundup: EA Spouse 14 years later, PUBG poaching from Riot, and Funcom financials
Welcome back to another edition of our informal business roundup, where we wedge all the fun MMO industry tidbits that pile up in our...
Secret World Legends has made the Agents available for missions
Managing other people in Secret World Legends: A life's goal for members of the Illuminati and probably a living hell for the Dragons. (Templars...
Trion reboots Defiance as Defiance 2050, launching on PC and console this summer
Welp, now we know what Trion Worlds has been working on: Defiance is getting a sequel, launching for PC, Xbox One, and PS4 this...
Treasure hunt in RuneScape with its updated clue scrolls mechanics
RuneScape is getting yet another update today, and it's another feature players begged for in last year's round of Jagex surveys. We're talking, of...
RIFT team tackles Prime server Q&A
Have questions about next month's RIFT Prime server? You and everyone else, buddy. With the rapid rollout of the progression server ruleset, Trion Worlds...
The Stream Team: Doing double XP week on Age of Conan’s Saga of Zath server
Massively OP's MJ may never care much about leveling fast, but that doesn't mean she won't enjoy a good double XP event! In honor...
Neverwinter details the hunts of the Lost City of Omu
Yo dawg, we heard you like hunting monsters, so we put some monsters to hunt in Neverwinter so you could hunt monsters while not...
Warframe plans Tennocon 2018 tix sale Wednesday, teases open world Venus zone
Not every MMO gets its own convention, but Warframe is once again in that elite group, as Digital Extremes has announced the details for...
RIFT datamining looks at Prime server and Patch 4.4
With the opening of RIFT Prime on March 7th, players are showing an increased interest in this nearly seven-year-old MMO. One thing that everyone...
Secret World Legends opens new forums, goes into depth on agent system
Secret World nomads rejoice, for you finally have a new home outside of the game. Funcom finally opened up the official forums for Secret...
The MOP Up: Path of Exile reads your future in the cards (February 25, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Mac
In 2003, Sony Online Entertainment tried an experiment to reach out to the (then) small-but-growing community of Mac users. The company released EverQuest Macintosh...
Riot discloses the drop odds for League of Legends lootboxes
Mentioning lootboxes at this point is a good way to send players into paroxysms of rage regardless of how fair or unfair they are;...
