‘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 goes underground with Update 40: Beneath the Surface
Who's ready to dive back underground in Lord of the Rings Online? Well, don't you all start whooping and hollering in agreement there. No...
The Daily Grind: Do you still have any launch day characters in your MMOs?
One of the reasons that I always like going back to Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's the only MMO that I...
Valheim’s F2P Ashlands biome patch has finally launched after a year and a half wait
Iron Gate has been talking about Valheim's Ashlands update since December. No, not last December. The December before that - 2022 December, when Mistlands...
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Jagex has just completed its 2024 roadmap reveal livestream for RuneScape, and even though we're only just entering the middle part of the year,...
Star Trek Online announces Season 32 Unparalleled, starring Denise Crosby, for May 28
It's been a couple of months now, but if you can remember the Cryptic dev stream back in March, you'll recall that the studio...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for playing on a potato?
I saw a thread on the MMORPG subreddit a while back asking about MMOs that function well on low-end machines, and I was actually...
The Stream Team: Unlocking Warframe’s planetary nodes
As a Warframe player, Massively OP's MJ never went in order; she just wandered about doing things randomly. One thing she has skipped quite...
Mabinogi’s May patch smooths out dungeon difficulty and increases inventory stacks
All right class, who here remembers Mabinogi? You know, that Welsh-themed fantasy MMO that your one friend always raved about back in the day...
Lord of the Rings Online readies Update 40 and new supporter pack for this week
Cue your "it's happening" animated gifs because Update 40 is finally coming to Lord of the Rings Online this week after multiple rounds of...
One Shots: Where’s the seatbelt on this thing?
As flashy and fun as it might be to adventure in a galaxy far, far away, I don't think any of us would last...
Fallen Earth and APB Reloaded celebrate Little Orbit Week six years after their acquisition
Believe it or not, it's now been six years since Little Orbit acquired Gamers First, and along with it, APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth....
LOTRO Legendarium: Is it worth being a zone completionist in LOTRO?
We need to start today's column with one important disclaimer: There's no right or wrong way to play Lord of the Rings Online, only...
The Stream Team: Continuing to collect AQ3D’s cosmic raiment
It's been quite a while since Massively OP's MJ has worked on collecting the cosmic raiment pieces in AdventureQuest 3D; she can't even remember...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect...
Massively Overthinking: Why and how we mod our MMORPGs
Last week, the MOP team was sitting around in our virtual offices, talking about modding Elder Scrolls Online, all because some of our readers...
Dawn of Defiance is a Greek mythology-themed co-op survival game headed for early access this year
Do you like survival titles like Valheim or Enshrouded but you're tired of the whole Nordic and Viking vibe? What do you feel about...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with forever adding classes to MMOs
The second expansion for Final Fantasy XI, Chains of Promathia, launched to extremely mixed reception, and there was one overwhelming reason for that lack of...
RuneScape improves Rellekka visuals, Old School RuneScape discusses Varlamore’s upcoming group boss
Just because the region of Rellekka in RuneScape is described as a cold and harsh land doesn't mean it shouldn't get a lick of...
Perfect Ten: 10 favorite features that pairs of popular MMOs share
Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....
EverQuest plans to start selling level 50 heroic characters next week
While most MMOs tend to escalate their level-boosted characters to ever-greater heights, EverQuest is going in the opposite direction when it puts level 50...
