‘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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H1Z1 announces ‘crate bundles’ for the cash shop
Last week, Daybreak announced a monetization change for zombie survival box H1Z1 that almost slipped under our radar: The studio is adding bundles of...
Funcom’s Q4 2015 revenues are up from Q3, creditors restructure loans
Funcom has released its fourth quarter 2015 financials, and the news is both good and bad. The studio's latest quarterly revenues were up $342,000 US...
The MOP Up: Dungeons & Drama Online (January 31, 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: Kneel before Zod
As if MMOs didn't already give us big enough heads, what with everyone treating us as if we were the saviors of the world...
Burn down your foes in Warframe’s Ring of Fire update
Things are heating up in the sci-fi action game Warframe. The latest update, dubbed Ring of Fire, adds the flame-flinging Nezha Warframe to the...
Leaderboard: Massive servers vs. custom communities
One of the trends cropping up in the MMO industry in recent years is the Neverwinter Nights custom shard phenomenon. Games like Star Citizen,...
The Game Archaeologist: Perpetual’s Star Trek Online
If you're among the legions of Trekkies, then you are almost certainly aware of Cryptic Studios' Star Trek Online. Since early 2010, players have...
Conan Exiles includes purges, human sacrifice, and nudity
While the upcoming Conan Exiles will take place in the same fictional universe as Age of Conan and be made by the same studio,...
Crossout enters its next phase of testing complete with factions
If you've ever played a game focused around vehicle combat and thought "hey, this would be better with Mad Max-style customized war vehicles," you...
How MMO studios wield ‘YouTube influencers’
Kotaku has posted what it's calling "a behind-the-scenes peek at what it looks like when YouTubers shill for game companies." Perfect World Entertainment, well-known to...
Giveaway: Pick up a Forsaken World Volos pet and gift pack from PWE and MOP
Forsaken World's latest expansion, Awakening, went live earlier this week, and to celebrate, Perfect World has granted Massively OP a thousand key bundles to hand...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s story stream talks about resuming romance and future story developments
The next chapter of Knights of the Fallen Empire is coming out in early February, and it's reintroducing a major character to players of...
Marvel Heroes 2016 launches today with new story chapter, visual updates
Marvel Heroes is about to reinvent itself as Marvel Heroes 2016. And it's even 2016! What a coincidence!
Launching today, the upgrade will download for...
Trove makes major business model adjustments
RIFT isn't the only game under Trion Worlds' umbrella that's reevaluating and adjusting its business model to become more profitable. Yesterday, the Trove team...
EA says SWTOR’s sub numbers were way up last quarter
Good news for MMORPG players coming from the preliminary EA quarterly financial results:
"In Q3, STAR WARS™: The Old Republic grew to its highest subscriber...
Testing for Landmark’s next update is currently underway
No, Daybreak hasn't abandoned Landmark: Producer Terry Michaels tweeted yesterday evening that the team has sent the next update to the QA server and is...
RuneScape adds Invention elite skill, slightly breaks the game
There's a new elite skill that's come to the skill-centric RuneScape, and it's causing both jubilation and jeers among the game's community.
Invention allows players...
PWE’s 2014 wuxia MMORPG Swordsman Online lands on Steam
These days, if you're not on Steam, you're throwing money away, a lesson more and more MMORPG studios are learning lately. Perhaps that explains...
Firefall vows to tackle more Razor’s Edge bugs
Firefall's had a rough couple of months, first with Christmastime budget and reorganization problems and then with the rocky launch of its Razor's Edge...
Path of Exile demos Ascendancy Berserker, Hierophant, and Pathfinder classes
Fresh off making public the news that Path of Exile's business is booming and the team is expanding to suit, Grinding Gear Games has produced...
