‘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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Lord of the Rings Online devs talk expansion development in new video series
MMORPG expansions don't appear out of thin air, although it might appear so from the player side of things. Two developers behind Lord of...
Fight or Kite: Harry Potter Magic Awakened was the most full-featured MMO you never played
The sudden and unexpected announcement that Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is being shuttered and taken offline everywhere save the original Chinese servers came as...
The Daily Grind: Do you call your MMO characters toons, chars, alts, or something else?
A few weeks back, the MMORPG sub erupted in a heated discussion about what to call, well, our characters. And it's a legit question...
The Stream Team: Celebrating five years of D&D nights in Dungeons & Dragons Online
Exactly five years ago tonight, Massively OP's MJ started Thursday D&D nights in Dungeons & Dragons Online on OPTV (Neverwinter started the week prior)....
Mabinogi celebrates 20 years with an in-person event in Korea as the western version shares a roadmap
Mabinogi crossed the major 20-year milestone earlier this week, which is obviously cause to celebrate across the globe, but the biggest party happened at...
Riot Games details price hikes coming for Brazil, Ukraine, and most of Asia on September 18
In its recent post on the topic, Riot isn't sugarcoating the numerous price hikes coming to Riot's various games including Valorant and League of...
Wayfinder returns to the PlayStation store with the Echoes update
While Wayfinder fans on the PC got to enjoy (or at least, experience) the sweeping Echoes relaunch back in June, PlayStation 5 fans have...
Aion Classic EU’s Dominance update is live today with two endgame PvE instances and a PvP map
Dominance - aka patch 2.8.5 - is live for the EU version of Aion Classic today. "With Dominance, players who have achieved the new...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 483: Singing the Blues Protocol
Justin and Bree discuss the demise of Blue Protocol, WoW's War Within launch, RuneScape's sub fee hike, and Wizard101's console ambitions, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on MMO cosmetic gear, Ultima Online as a survival game, and sticking to a vision as MMOs age.
Old School RuneScape counts over 160K players online during the holiday weekend
This past Monday was the Labor Day holiday (and a long weekend) for those of us living in the US of A, and it...
Lord of the Rings Online’s devs tease ‘so many plans’ for player housing
Back in early August, Lord of the Rings Online fan site Deco du Milieu hosted a player housing Q&A with members of Standing Stone...
The Stream Team: Warframe’s The Lotus Eaters
Massively OP's MJ is really excited for Warframe 1999 coming out by the end of the year and she can't wait to play. So...
Massively Uplifting: Labors of love, generosity, and grief in Warhammer, Terraria, Conan Exiles, Albion, ARK, and more
Labor Day in the United States is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievement of the American workers. The official Department of...
The Daily Grind: Is there a place in an MMO that you’re sentimentally attached to?
The Psychology of Games podcast recently did an episode on forming attachments to places in video games.
"Have you ever become attached to a place...
The MOP Up: 2008’s Grand Fantasia relaunches with a classic Origin server
Anime MMO Grand Fantasia is relaunching on September 3rd with a classic edition called Origin that harkens back to the title's 2008 era:
"New engine,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why haven’t I burned out on LOTRO yet?
None of what I'm about to write is to meant to be self-promotion - just observation. It really hit me the other day how...
The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you partnered up with a stranger in an MMO?
I'm having a pretty great time on Lord of the Rings Online's new progression server, partially because it's keeping the community in the same...
The Stream Team: Bob-O and doggoes in AQ3D
Between last week's and this week's AdventureQuest 3D releases, Massively OP's MJ has a fun combination of content to partake in. She'll get to...
TERA Console updates with Season 14, new dungeons, and class balance
TERA Console wrapped up August with a new update this week, bringing Patch 118.01 to the servers. Players can expect to find the debut...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s Max Out season brings a little hype back
The Pokemon Go fall seasonal update, coming September 3rd, is called Max Out, and if you haven't kept up with the main series of...
