‘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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One Shots: All the awesome you can handle
One day when I grow up, I hope to be half as amazing and down-to-earth cool as most of our One Shots community here....
The Stream Team: Do you lava AQ3D parkour?
If you were just wondering what could make parkour jumping puzzles more fun/challenging/insane, AQ3D was reading your mind. Because now you can add trying...
Wurm Online just launched a new time-limited repeating PvE server called Jackal
Wurm Online players, today's a big day for you, as Code Club's sandbox MMO is dropping a new expansion in the form of what...
Champions Online celebrates its 10th birthday with a new mission
The longest consistently operating superhero MMORPG is hitting a significant milestone this week, with Champions Online celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch on...
Gamigo’s ArcheAge Unchained stream explores the Steam launch, housing, and the Shadows Revealed update
Stream notes are at the bottom of this post!
Gamigo is just about to go live with ArcheAge Unchained's deep-dive stream here today, live at...
A Tale in the Desert begins its ninth Telling today
It's time to open a new chapter for A Tale in the Desert when the game kicks off its ninth Telling today. Yes, everything is...
SWTOR begins testing Onslaught’s crafting overhaul, Spoils of War adjustments, and the Dxun Operation
Star Wars: The Old Republic's Onslaught expansion may have been delayed a month, but BioWare is full-speed ahead on testing it.
The studio announced last...
Leaderboard: Do you buy the ‘Grand Daybreak Unification’ theory?
Yesterday, MMO blogger Wilhelm Arcturus of The Ancient Gaming Noob dropped a fun conspiracy theory in the comments of our piece on EVE Online...
ArcheAge Unchained is launching on September 30 with founder packs live today
The rumors from that weird edited press release are indeed official now: ArcheAge Unchained is dropping on September 30th.
As we've previously covered, ArcheAge Unchained...
The Stream Team: Gotta getta Gith in Neverwinter
The Gith are out! Neverwinter has opened up the new race for everyone who log in now, and Massively OP's MJ has gotta getta...
Massively Overthinking: The future of WoW and WoW Classic
With WoW Classic finally launched, perfectly capping off the summer with jokes about queueing like it's 2004, we can't help but look to the...
Path of Exile previews new Poison Assassin attacks and Mine skills coming with the Blight League
The upcoming Blight League in Path of Exile means changes, obviously, but more specifically it means changes to several class builds. In a couple...
Daybreak’s PlanetSide Arena will hit early access September 19, full launch Q2 2020
Yesterday, Daybreak finally broke its long silence on PlanetSide Arena with a teaser trailer, and as of today, the studio's got a new dev...
Perfect Ten: Ten weird things I’m relearning with WoW Classic
It's been a strange week. No - it's been a strange year in MMO gaming, all things considered. As I'm going through old Lord...
Star Trek Online plans five new patrol missions for Awakening
One of Star Trek Online's ever-present challenges is creating enough content for player captains to consume. With new featured episodes are few and far...
RIFT drops a new patch with new battle pass rewards, new daily rewards, and balance tweaks
There's a new patch being deployed for RIFT today, and while it may not have a whole lot of additional content, it will at least...
Daybreak just posted a PlanetSide Arena teaser after six months of silence
In December of last year, Daybreak announced its next big PlanetSide venture: a massive-scale battle royale game called PlanetSide Arena with tie-ins to the...
Former Elder Scrolls and Guild Wars franchise composer is accused of sexual assault
The gaming industry is in the midst of its own #MeToo moment, and one of the industry vets who stands accused is popular composer...
SWTOR explains just how you’ll get that free Nautolan unlock
If you were paying attention to anything other than WoW Classic on Monday, you might recall that Star Wars: The Old Republic slipped in...
The Daily Grind: Are you up for a buy-to-play ArcheAge?
Last week's news that ArcheAge is prepping a new buy-to-play, anti-pay-to-win server certainly caught a lot of our community's attention -- and divided its...
