‘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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The Daily Grind: Should e-sports players unionize?
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Aion Europe gets Abyss update on April 27
Aion's Abyss continues to be a source of great conflict in the game, a fact that won't change when Update 4.91 comes to the...
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The Stream Team: Starting SWTOR’s Shadow of Revan
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When I shared my first impressions of Landmark's big spring update, I admitted that there was sadness to be had, but I also noted that...
Vette gets a big gun in SWTOR’s next chapter, Profit and Plunder
Hot on the heals of last week's producer livestream announcement, we've gotten a look at the next Knights of the Fallen Empire chapter for Star...
RIFT celebrates year five with new souls, patron quests, and multicore support
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Neverwinter’s tabletop campaign delivers a month of prizes
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Lord of the Rings Online gets a combat tune-up
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Interview: Star Trek Online’s 11.5 mid-season update
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Landmark ups prop limit, adds durability, and collapses build UI
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Age of Conan launches Pit Master’s Arena, shelves crafting revamp, plans F2P improvements
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Enter to win a Star Trek Online Vaadwaur Astika Heavy Battlecruiser from PWE and Massively OP
In honor of Star Trek Online's mid-season 11.5 launch, PWE has granted Massively OP five Vaadwaur Astika Heavy Battlecruisers to give away to our readers!
"Battlecruisers of the...
A tour of RIFT 3.6: Celebration of the Ascended
When an MMO hits its fifth anniversary, one hopes that the game's studio would pull out all of the stops to mark the occasion....
Character transfers in SWTOR were (temporarily?) free last night
Our embedded reporter in Star Wars: The Old Republic -- me! -- discovered first-hand last night that character transfers had been made free for an unknown reason. This...
TERA’s Secrets & Shadows update arrives next month
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 60: Nostalrius down
Justin and Bree discuss Nostalrius, TERA, Black Desert, SWTOR, DDO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, with mailbag questions on Kickstarters and Tabula Rasa.
Spellcheck won’t help you in TERA’s new Seek & Spell event
Live with TERA's maintenance patch today is an contest-slash-event En Masse is calling Seek & Spell, so: Dictionaries at the ready!
For the next three...
