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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.

TIme to pay the pipers indeed.

SWTOR continues the expansion story with today’s Anarchy in Paradise release

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It's time to get angry, break things, and start some fires in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Patch 4.1 Anarchy in Paradise arrives today, and...

The Stream Team: Continuing Storm’s story in Marvel Heroes

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Marvel Heroes 2016 is here, and it brought more story. However, MassivelyOP's MJ still has most of chapter 9 to finish up before she...

Landmark preps March update, demos claim time and camera controls

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Daybreak's Emily "Domino" Taylor has posted an update on Landmark's status on the official forums. After announcing that a new Landmarks of Landmark competition...
Zorp.

Star Trek Online previews the new Tier 6 flagships

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The Odyssey-class cruiser, the Scimitar-class warbird, and the Bortasqu'-class battlecruiser serve as the flagships for each of their respective factions in Star Trek Online....
If you were hoping for business model snark, you will be disappointed.

RIFT is testing multicore processing support

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Technology is vital to every single MMO that we play and is also almost completely invisible. When a game is running well, you don't...

Today’s World of Warships Super Bowl XP promo begins at 6:30 p.m. EST

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If you're more a warships person than a football person -- or maybe just a football-and-warships person -- then today's World of Warships promotion...

The MOP Up: RuneScape’s TCG wraps up closed beta (February 7, 2016)

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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...

One Shots: On a highway to Hell

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The Secret World has needed awesome mounts since, oh, day one, and it does my heart good to see players rumble about on hogs,...

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Social outcomes and online gamers

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Of all the chapters in Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video...

Champions Online’s Teleios Ascendant lair patch is live

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Last month, Cryptic promised a new update for Champions Online, and this week, it's finally live. The studio calls it the "biggest challenge" in...

Ask Mo: Re-reviewing MMORPGs and birthday shenanigans

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Mo's been collecting letters to the editor for me to address in Ask Mo for the past month or two, and this one from...
NOW PUNCH! YOUR FRIEND! PUNCH, PUNCH YOUR FRIEND! GET OUT ON THE FLOOR AND PUNCH YOUR BEST FRIEND!

NCsoft plans Lineage Eternal testing this year

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Korean website GameFocus reports that NCsoft is planning to continue its "rapid pace" policy by undertaking private tests of Master X Master, its MOBA,...

RIFT’s subscription package improves as F2P gets a little worse

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In all of the hubbub surrounding Trion World's changes to the business model of RIFT, it might've been easy to overlook the fact that...

Massively Overthinking: Old MMORPGs, disco, and pop culture phenomena

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A reader named Rob provides this week's Massively Overthinking topic. It's a really good one! "Why isn't playing an old MMO from a previous decade...
Ride ride ride.

Neverwinter details the ins and outs of the upcoming mount changes

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Mounts are important in any game. It's nice to be able to choose a noble steed that represents your preferences and your character's personality...

Anarchy Online is getting ‘Recked’ with new zone, sub rewards

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On Sunday, Anarchy Online Lead Designer Henry "Michizure" Senger opened up on the forums with a look at what's going on in the world's...
Fighting the good fight... in really, really ugly armor.

Star Trek Online is discontinuing its Mac client

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Star Trek Online is officially discontinuing support of its Mac client. Perfect World says that following the Mac client's recent struggles and the support required...
Well... huh.

World of Tanks’ PS4 userbase swells to one million in five days

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World of Tanks has just announced that it's amassed a million PlayStation 4 users since its launch on the platform last week. "It's barely been...

More souls and massive tech improvements head to RIFT this year

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As RIFT approaches its fifth birthday this spring, Executive Producer Chris Junior revealed many exciting changes and improvements that are coming to the game. The fun...

Jukebox Heroes: Six soundtracks from MMOs that never launched

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As an MMO fan, there are few things as sad as a promising game being killed in development without seeing the light of a...

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