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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 deals out free Gunner gear, character slots, and weekend boom boxes

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Is it too early to open your presents? TERA says it's OK, so if Santa gets upset, we're totally pointing fingers. The action MMO pushed...

Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre

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Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...
You could have tried harder. Or... at all.

Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends and the mystery of the level-based curse

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Would you believe that I sort of forgot about levels altogether in Secret World Legends? It's true! I remembered that they were a thing...

Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance

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Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies. That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...

Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar

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The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...

Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s Chiss flashpoint

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Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched update 5.6, which gave us many new quality-of-life changes to the game as well as our first...

The Stream Team: The final KOTFE chapter in SWTOR

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It has been quite the journey through SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire for Massively OP's MJ and Larry, and they couldn't have done...

Slay-to-win: Massively OP’s hands-on with the Dauntless closed beta

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The end of September marked a major milestone for Dauntless, the upcoming monster-slaying action-MMORPG from indie developer Phoenix Labs, as it officially concluded its...

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017

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One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...

Global Chat: Saying goodbye to Marvel Heroes

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Few people are happy to see an MMO go down, especially in the manner that Marvel Heroes is going from a popular and well-liked...

Mobile MMO roundup: PUBG’s mobile version, Pokemon Go’s Ho-Oh, Mu Legends’ PvP, and Tera M’s launch

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Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup! First up: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has yet to actually formally launch on PC, is already getting a mobile...
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Path of Exile shows off the interactions of new skills and support abilities

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Part of the fun of Path of Exile is setting up combinations of skills, support skills, and items in order to create a constant...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.

The Stream Team: Get your Wizard101 Empyrean Castaway’s Bundle

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Did you miss out on the holiday deals this weekend? Well, Massively OP's MJ has something better than a sale: a giveaway! She has...
No, this is not from my playthrough.

Clicker Heroes dev on abandoning the free-to-play model for the sequel

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If you've never played Clicker Heroes, you can pick it up for your phone or on Steam right now; it's a lightweight little idle...

Marvel Heroes: Former dev says Disney’s not the bad guy, Xbox One grants automatic refunds

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Still reeling from the abrupt early sunset of Marvel Heroes yesterday? Same here. If you want a little closure, maybe check out Kinda Funny...
Very dynamic.

SWTOR’s double event won’t make today’s 5.6 patch (but the trailer is now live!)

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The bad news is that the Star Wars: The Old Republic double event has been pushed back slightly. It was supposed to start today,...

RIP Marvel Heroes

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It's gone, gang, and I'm so sorry. Following the disastrous silences and accusations that unfolded over October and November, Marvel announced that it had terminated...
Yeah, there's no version of this that ends well.

Saga of Lucimia dev argues that minimaps destroy MMORPG immersion

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Saga of Lucimia has made a name for itself during its long development as a hardcore old-school indie MMO with a focus on grouping...
Seriously, someone needs to turn up the gamma correction in New England.

Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends

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Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...

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