‘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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Eternal Crusade triples daily active users after free-to-play switch
Thanks to this past week's introduction of a free-to-play model, Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade saw a massive jump in its player population. The team reports...
TERA’s EU branch claims player numbers have ‘risen massively’
We see a lot of odd press releases around here, many of them loaded with vague commentary on how well a game is doing...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 109: We are all Dragonborn
Justin and Bree discuss our PAX awards, Guild Wars 2, Wizard101, WoW, LOTRO, DDO, The Repopulation, EverQuest, Eternal Crusade, and Pathfinder, with mailbag questions on Funcom's mystery game and Landmark-like sandboxes.
The Soapbox: What the Mass Effect Andromeda kerfuffle ought to teach us about games criticism
Today is the official release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, which was preceded by the frankly baffling decision to allow people access to an early...
Lord of the Rings Online sends players to the Black Gate with today’s Update 20
The path of Lord of the Rings Online has always pointed, inevitably, toward Mordor. Update 20, live today in the epic MMORPG, brings players...
How to farm 570 LOTRO points in under three hours
One of the interesting quirks of Lord of the Rings Online's free-to-play setup is that players can earn premium currency -- LOTRO points, or...
Path of Exile on virtual reality, auto-sort, and offline play
Path of Exile's latest dev Q&A has a few nuggets of interest for followers of the MMOARPG. What caught our eye? Don't expect an...
South Korea’s Netmarble to launch ambitious IPO
South Korean Tencent affiliate Netmarble announced today that it will launch an initial public offering to the tune of $2.35 billion US. That works...
DDO and LOTRO suffer sub woes, LOTRO Issue 20 arrives this week
How would you feel if you paid money to subscribe to an MMO, and the company took the money without delivering that sub? Probably...
The MOP Up: Kali awakens in Dragon Nest (March 19, 2017)
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...
Remembering EverQuest Next
Is it too soon -- or perhaps too pointless -- to wool-gather about EverQuest Next? After all, that MMO project is deader than dead,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Heading into the Wastes as update 20 advances
If all goes well, within a few days the Lord of the Rings Online community will be getting its first glimpse of Mordor with...
League of Legends on LGBT representation and pro team mistreatment allegations
League of Legends will probably introduce non-straight characters eventually, a new interview on Polygon with Riot Games' Greg Street suggests. The publication asked Street...
Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote
We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
2013 MMOARPG Path of Exile hit peak concurrency in March thanks to its latest patch
Path of Exile just keeps getting bigger and bigger in terms of both players and team size, and it's actually providing the numbers to...
Eternal Crusade prepares for its free-to-play shift
It is important to note that the official Eternal Crusade line is that the upcoming free-to-play option is not a full conversion to free-to-play,...
Trion will gquit its old studio tonight, moves into new digs this weekend
You might not notice, since the servers are fine and customer service is operating from Austin, but Trion's Redwood Shores studio is packing up...
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases the Dragonborn race as Update 35 goes live
For some people, it's not enough to just exist in a virtual world with dragons and occasionally fight against them; they want to become...
Aion’s cities come under assault with this week’s 5.3 patch
Fleets of enemy dredgion ships are fast approaching Aion's capitol cities, and players are being called to rally in defense of their homeland. As...
Global Chat: Fare thee well, Landmark
Believe it or not, there were actually people who played and enjoyed Landmark -- and were saddened to see it taken offline. To kick...