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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.

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Choose My Adventure: Wrapping things up in Secret World Legends

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One of the things that I promised way back when I started writing this series about Secret World Legends was to mention the way...
THE CLAMPS!

Path of Exile’s War for the Atlas expansion is live today

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Path of Exile's free-to-play War for the Atlas expansion is slated to go live this afternoon on PC, expanding the gameworld for diehard MMOARPG...
uh, guys, really?

RIFT puts an endgame currency out for real-money sales

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Look, we can all agree that "pay-to-win" is, at the very least, a difficult concept to be certain about. Right? There's a lot of...

Overwatch snags two Game Awards while Destiny 2 is honored by six nominations

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Did you catch last night's Game Awards from LA? If not, you probably didn't miss anything super-groundbreaking, although Overwatch did quite well for itself...
Damn you!

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017

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Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year. Now imagine what gets said behind...
Darn, no.

Lineage 2 EU completes its current story saga, plans free weekend on its classic server

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Big things are afoot in the realm of Lineage 2 this week. Its European version just added "The Last Page -- Salvation" update that...
And on the end of the gun... was a HOOK!

TERA hosts first PlayStation 4 public demo this week

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So what do you think about TERA's prospects as a console MMORPG after hearing that it is coming to the PlayStation 4? It seems...

The Stream Team: A soiree with Said in Secret World Legends

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The day has finally come for Massively OP's MJ to spend some time with Said, everyone's favorite mummy in Secret World Legends! For her,...

Perfect World Entertainment sprinkles holiday events across its library

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With so many Christmas events popping up this month, there's no time nor space to spread them out. Perfect World Entertainment seems to think...

Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements

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Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, it’s time to destroy the Eternal Empire

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Those players who were looking for consequence in their Star Wars: The Old Republic storyline can, I'm glad to say, look to Knights of...
oh GROSS

Tera M is not friendly to free players in its Korean version

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Eager to have all of the gameplay of TERA in the palm of your hand with TERA M? You might want to be a...

Vindictus introduces the girl with the dragon spine

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If there is one thing that we have learned about Korean MMOs, it's that the smaller the girl, the bigger the weapon she carries....
Oh look.

Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017

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As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Well, there are woods. There might be an elf or two in there.

Dungeons & Dragons Online launches the Mists of Ravenloft

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There's a chill in the air through December under normal circumstances, but the chill rushing through Dungeons & Dragons Online is unrelated to the...
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?

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One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...

Crowfall: ‘You don’t have to get into the stats to have a good time in this game’

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Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Billy Garretsen are back for another ACE Q&A - you can pretty much mark the months by these things....
we'll bank this up

RuneScape delivers a ‘mega-patch’ full of quality-of-life improvements

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Sometimes you need good, quality fixes and improvements over brand-new content in MMOs. It's amazing what little changes can do in turning a game...
Just fight the thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one

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Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.
Expectations.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is holding a Thursday livestream with author Timothy Zahn

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Timothy Zahn is kind of a big deal for Star Wars fiction. Yes, he helped develop the most recent bit of Star Wars: The...

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