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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.

Marvel Heroes dishes out a hefty daily allowance as the game counts down to extinction

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Marvel Heroes players are dealing with the fallout of yesterday's announcement that the superhero MMO is being shut down by Disney and will officially...

Hyperspace Beacon: Assessing SWTOR one week after the big server merges

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Many people believe that server merges are innately bad because in games like ArcheAge (or even all the way back to Star Wars Galaxies),...

The Stream Team: New chapter on a new server in SWTOR’s Knights of the Fallen Empire

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With the Star Fortress destroyed, Massively OP's Larry and MJ can return to the main storyline in SWTOR's KOTFE expansion. They are even...

Disney has canceled Marvel Heroes, Marvel has ended its relationship with Gazillion

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We can now confirm this as real, following a statement made by a Marvel representative to Massively OP. We're updating below. According to Kotaku, Disney...
Oh, hello there!

Netmarble mobile MMO Lineage 2 Revolution has officially launched

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As the Google Play app on my phone frantically notified me this morning, Lineage 2 Revolution has officially launched itself right on out of...
We never like these things.

Former SWTOR dev talks about designing ethical lockboxes

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An extensive Twitter thread from former Star Wars: The Old Republic lead systems designer Damion Schubert grappled with the timely and touchy topic of lockboxes and microtransactions...

Funcom continues its streak of profits thanks to Secret World Legends

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The money scene continues to progress generally well for Funcom, which reported a third consecutive quarter during which it made a tidy sum. Funcom...

The Daily Grind: How can MMOs repurpose older zones?

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One of the best gaming experiences that I had this past year was going through the entirety of the Bingo Boffin storyline from start...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG

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Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.

Secret World Legends drops a hefty quality-of-life update with ‘anima allocation’ system

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It may not be season two, but today's update might get Secret World Legends' playerbase excited even so. Update 2.1.4 adds plenty of quality-of-life improvements...

Project TL replaces Lineage Eternal’s website

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So... it looks like NCsoft is really sticking with the "Project TL" name, huh? The game developer replaced the old Lineage Eternal site with...

NCsoft Q3 2017: Lineage M drives record profits, Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire isn’t too shabby either

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NCsoft had an exceptionally good third financial quarter this year, reaching a record high in sales and operating profit for the company, and it's...
Look at you, hacker.

Warframe’s Digital Extremes named one of Canada’s top 100 employers

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Want to start a career in making video games? You could do worse than to sign up with Digital Extremes. The Canadian developer of Warframe...
Why Is Trion Like This, Just Kidding, We Actually Know

RIFT’s fall festival lockboxes rankle players

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The latest batch of lockboxes in RIFT isn't making friends among the playerbase. The current Autumn Harvest lockboxes seem to contain more exclusive items than...

Lineage 2 Revolution drops launch trailer ahead of Nov 15 release

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Netmarble is going all-out on Lineage 2 Revolution promotion with the mobile MMORPG's launch slated for Wednesday, November 15th. "Lineage 2: Revolution will deliver...

Marvel Heroes’ update silence has stretched to four weeks; here are the latest developments

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I'm afraid we still can't say that Marvel Heroes is going to be OK, as we've now gone an entire month since the last...
The archer was in such a rush she forgot to get dressed.

TERA races to shore up chat vulnerability

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That nasty little loophole in TERA's chat that hackers were exploiting was patched up over the weekend. En Masse deployed a hotfix on the...

The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?

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Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...

EVE Evolved: Three tricks to maximize your free-to-play EVE Online account

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It's now been almost one year to the day that EVE Online officially got a limited free-to-play option, and it's certainly been a boon...

The MOP Up: EVE Online eases you into its universe (November 12, 2017)

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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...

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