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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.

It's not really a new ship without slow pans around it and swelling orchestral music.

How Star Trek Online constructs its new pilot ships

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The newest ships in Star Trek Online are all based around making players feel like that piloting specialization was a good expenditure of time...
Oh, yeah, we sort of see it now.

Did you know Diablo III was once planned as an MMO?

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It's indisputable that World of Warcraft took a lot of nods from online Diablo II when it first launched. Sometimes, it almost seems as...
World of Warplanes

Wargaming tweaks clan stuff in World of Tanks, adds clan rating to WoWP

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Lots of clan-related stuff is happening in Wargaming titles this week. In World of Tanks, there's a new clan rating interface, and the devs...

League of Legends community forms rival subreddit in response to heavy moderation

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In response to the heated debate over alleged heavy-handed moderation and undue studio influence on the League of Legends subreddit, a group of players...

Watch Dota 2’s Red Bull Battle Grounds Grand Finals today

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Dota 2's Red Bull Battle Grounds e-sports event draws to a close this weekend with the Grand Finals best-of-five finale in San Francisco's Warfield Theater. China's Invictus...
Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online interviews Voyager veterans and Season 10 voice actors

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Star Trek Online's Season 10: The Iconian War adds franchise veterans Robert Duncan McNeill and Lisa LoCicero to the fold. McNeill and LoCicero will...

MMO Mechanics: Three favourite action combat systems

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Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature...
Happiness is a warm car.

APB weathers (another) GTA V launch

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I feel kinda bad for APB Reloaded given that it's had to weather not one but two launches of GTA V, first on consoles...

LOTRO Legendarium: The return of the dungeon

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While I've been playing Lord of the Rings Online as one of my main MMOs for almost a decade now, it's primarily been for...

Echo of Soul trailer puts the spotlight on PvP

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Don't worry, PvP people -- Echo of Soul isn't going to leave you high and dry. The now-in-closed-beta Korean MMO has released a new video...

RIFT’s Hammerknell instant adventures open for business

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While the new Hammerknell instant adventure was originally slated for RIFT's 3.2 update, the team held it back for additional work and testing. The...

The Stream Team: Touring a whole new Landmark world

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There isn't anything built in Landmark right now to gaze upon, but that's not really the point today, is it? With the newest landmasses to...
I suppose it's cheaper than actually hiring someone to design these spaces?

EverQuest Next invites players to the Elf workshop competition

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The games aren't explicitly linked quite the same way any longer, but there's still plenty of space for Landmark players to strut their stuff...
SWTOR

SWTOR players harass a BioWare dev and his family

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What do you do when MMO devs mess with your favorite class? If you're a handful of Star Wars: The Old Republic players,...

Landmark’s new island shapes revealed

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If you are eager to scope out Landmark's new landscapes in order to find the perfect spot to construct your next home, you can get...
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs still going after ten years

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It struck me, very recently, that a decade is a long time for MMOs. If we're going to count Ultima Online as the first proper...

Mo’s Egg Hunt: Deals for May 7, 2015

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It's time for another exciting roundup of Newegg's best deals here on Massively Overpowered. These deals are available through the links provided below. Just remember they're...
Classic.

Star Wars: The Old Republic cracks down on RMT ring

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In the MMO community, shady websites selling game currency for real currency are considered especially heinous. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, these operations...
Ready

Entropia Universe angles to enter the VR market

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Is virtual reality just a fad that happens to come around every once in a while? Entropia Universe is banking that it's here to...

RIFT is working on a planar crafting system

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RIFT crafters may soon have a good reason to get out of their safety bubbles in the city and get their hands dirty to...

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