‘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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Firefall updates players on missing items following patch 1.6
The most recent Firefall patch had some significant issues when it first went live, but those issues are still being sorted out now. Players...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Xbox One mount from PWE and Massively OP
In celebration of Neverwinter's Underdark update for Xbox One, PWE has granted Massively OP 40 mount codes to give away to our readers!
The codes are for a rare...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR Knights of the Fallen Empire Chapter 10 impressions
I can't lie: The fact that BioWare took nearly seven hours longer to launch the next chapter of Star Wars: The Old Republic than...
RIFT will soon let you buy any of its 8,100 artifacts for credits
Whether you call them shinies or sparklies, artifacts are a fun little diversion in RIFT that can pay off with special toys, mounts, and...
Neverwinter trade bar store bait-and-switch causes community stir
Neverwinter's Xbox One community has had to live with the fact that its version of the game would always be lagging behind the PC...
Global Chat: Saying farewell to City of Steam
No doubt by now you have heard that the indie steampunk City of Steam has been shuttered. And while its demise won't change the...
The British invade World of Tanks on PS4
The British invade World of Tanks today (again) with the unlock of the Crown's own arsenal for the PlayStation 4 version of the game. The...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 50: Happy birthday MOP!
On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and Bree discuss MOP's first birthday, DUST 514, H1Z1, DCUO, Hearthstone, Anarchy Online, Diablo III, and TSW, with a mailbag question on the return of MMO subs.
Hellbug event makes strange bedfellows of Trove and Defiance
One thing that's quite apparent by now is that Trion Worlds adores its crossover promotions. It's happening again, as Defiance's hellbugs are breaching the...
Neverwinter’s Underdark lands on consoles, Maze Engine is prepped for PC
It's getting very dark for Neverwinter players on the Xbox One. One might even argue that it's getting underdark. Why one might argue that...
RIFT talks about its new souls, one might be the Maelstrom
The RIFT community is certainly abuzz about all of the big changes and plans for the game in 2016, not the least of which...
SWTOR continues the expansion story with today’s Anarchy in Paradise release
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
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
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...
Star Trek Online previews the new Tier 6 flagships
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....
RIFT is testing multicore processing support
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
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)
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
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
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...
