‘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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Wandering Wraeclast: Musings on Path of Exile’s Metamorph
At the close of Path of Exile's Metamorph league, I've been sitting back and musing on the league that brought about more changes for...
Today’s Warframe update brings a major overhaul of systems and mechanics across the board
Review, refresh, and revise. Those are the three words being used repeatedly for today's large patch for Warframe, and given the content of the patch...
The Stream Team: Onderon hunting (datacron) party in SWTOR
Do Massively OP's Larry and MJ know how to party or what? With that little smidgen of story done, the two are forming another...
Path of Exile addresses Atlas of Worlds adjustment concerns raised by players
A few days ago, Grinding Gear Games brought up a number of adjustments that are coming to the Atlas of Worlds in Path of...
Lord of the Rings Online introduces a new raid and several class adjustments in its latest update
Hope you're up on your Sindarin, because the latest content update for Lord of the Rings Online has a whole mess of it. Specifically,...
TERA announces Kaia’s Anvil for PC in March, drops Forsaken Island and auto-fishing for console
TERA fans on PC are getting new dungeons and new rewards for running them with En Masse's March content update.
"Kaia’s Anvil’ will launch in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 261: PAX yay, GDC nay
Justin and Bree discuss PAX East, GDC, the coronavirus' impact on gaming, Magic Legends, Population Zero, Marvel Future Revolution, LOTRO and DDO, Funcom and Dune, and City of Heroes, plus adventures in AQ3D, CoH, and SWG Legends, with mailbag topics on everything MMOs and the doom of WildStar.
Star Trek Online Legacy and Measure of Mortality arrive for consoles today
Console players of Star Trek Online are finally catching up with their PC compariots today as the Legacy update has gone live on on...
Black Desert’s ominous O’dylitta update is launching ‘later this year’
Remember back at E3 and Heidel Ball last year, when in the midst of the hoopla around Black Desert's Shai and Great Expedition expansion...
ArcheAge’s Treacherous Tides is live with a new ocean raid boss and Swiftblade ancestral skills
RIFT's ninth birthday may have come and gone without so much as a whisper from Gamigo this past weekend, but ArcheAge is still getting...
Massively Uplifting: DragonCon announces official charity, more studios support Australian wildfire relief
This past month has been filled with its share of dark news, not the least of which is the coronavirus that is plaguing the...
The Stream Team: RIFT turns 9!
It's the last year of single digits for RIFT; the MMORPG is officially nine years old now! Massively OP's MJ is on hand to...
Wurm Online has officially ended its real money trade market
Players of Wurm Online already knew that this was coming, but now it's officially official: The real money trade market has been officially halted...
Warframe details upcoming PC version adjustments to Rising Tide, armor, health, and shields
It looks like there's going to be a whole lot of refinement for the PC version of Warframe in the very near future. The...
RuneScape adds scaling to Solak, adds a ripper demon pet, and revives the Ninja Team
If it's Monday, it's another weekly update from RuneScape! In the regular weekly newsletter from Jagex we're getting word of some new scaling features...
Path of Exile outlines the changes coming to the Atlas of Worlds in Delirium
The last big update to Path of Exile made some pretty major changes to the endgame, but that was a starting point rather than a...
The Daily Grind: Do old MMOs perform so much better now than at launch that they’re actually easier?
MMO blogger Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob fame recently posed us a question about old vs. new MMOs. "Our WoW Classic group has been...
Battle Bards Episode 163: EverQuest upgraded
The Battle Bards return to the verdant fields of EverQuest for a look at the updated and remastered soundtrack that came out last year. If you...
The MOP Up: Red Dead Redemption’s puke rope saves the day
Puke may have ended Elvis Presley's life, but it could save yours -- if you're playing Red Dead Redemption 2, that is. Polygon posted...
Star Wars: The Old Republic designers discuss the creation of the Alderaan stronghold
If you like to build something to last in Star Wars: The Old Republic, don't build on Alderaan. Sure, it looks pretty right now, but...
