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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.

Star Trek Online is bringing miracles and kilts to consoles next month

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Once again, Star Trek Online's console community plans on catching to the latest update as Cryptic announced that Season 14: Emergence is scheduled to...

RIFT prepares the Autumn Harvest and Crucia’s Claw update

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Can you ever get too much of a good thing? RIFT is certainly trying to pack a very full week of activity, starting with...

Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic’s cash shop is finally on the right track

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Many of you will immediately turn to the free-to-play model of Star Wars: The Old Republic and reject my even thinking about the cash...
Harsh.

Neverwinter hosts the Masquerade of Liars for Halloween

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This year's Halloween event for Neverwinter is kind of harshly named, you guys. Seriously, "Masquerade of Liars?" That's a rather severe appellation to slap...
It's a fooler.

Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO characters seem truly insane

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We all like making the occasional observation about the weirdness inherent in video games, but most of us also recognize that what we're really...

Warframe doubled its concurrency record with Plains of Eidolon to become second top-played F2P on Steam

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Four year-old Warframe's done it again: set a new concurrency record, and not even for the first time, as it busted past its concurrency...
You let me down, man.

Star Wars: The Old Republic moves its servers to a location far, far away (from the west coast)

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Ahead of the game's large-scale server merge, the Star Wars: The Old Republic servers have had their physical locations merged into one. It turns...

The Stream Team: Giving away creepy clown Halloween bundles in Wizard101

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Halloween is all about collecting goodies, and Massively OP's MJ has some Wizard101 goodies to give away! Special for the season, she has a...

World of Warships recruits Tesla to fight the evil forces of Transylvania

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Do you recall back in the early days of World of Warships, when the game looked like it would be a World War II...
Up, up, up!

Path of Exile looks back on the four years since launch

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The story of Path of Exile is a pretty good one. Four years on, the game has gone from being a rather unknown little...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 141: Mouse invasions and elf butts

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Justin and Bree discuss MMORPG Halloween, Trove, World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, DDO, Life is Feudal, Bless, Destiny 2, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag question on how and whether we should all be supporting struggling MMOs.

Neverwinter’s Swords of Chult update is live for PC with a new skirmish and PvP overhaul

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Swords of Chult is live for PC players of Neverwinter today. If you're not a D&D person, you might be wondering what the heck...

Enter to win a Gigantic Ezren Ghal hero unlock or Voden skin from PWE and MOP

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In honor of the launch of Gigantic's Halloween update and its concomitant new hero and map, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies...

Global Chat: Is there a gaming middle class?

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Here's an interesting thought for the day: Is there a gaming middle class, one that exists between those with plenty of money or time?...
This, uh. This was a thing.

SWTOR celebrates KOTOR’s Xbox One launch with cash-shop outfits and free expansions

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It's been a while since the classic RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic first launched, but Xbox One players are just getting to...

The Stream Team: Happy fourth anniversary Path of Exile!

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Has it really been four years since Path of Exile launched? It has! With so many expansions, you might have thought it had been...
Just what.

Age of Wushu adds a new free-for-all battle royale mode to its China version

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There are two ways to look at the new battle royale mode added to the Age of Wushu Chinese servers. The first is with...

Here’s a look at Path of Exile’s lightning tendrils skill gem

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Lightning is in the air lately. Literally, of course, but I mean in video games, as last week we were treated to a look...

RuneScape apologizes for microtransactions and lack of update clarity

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RuneScape's Thomas "Mod Balance" Sweeney has a post on the official forums today showing how apologies ought to go. This one's in regard to...

The MOP Up: Warface celebrates its birthday in Chernobyl (October 22, 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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