‘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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World of Warships: Legends sails out of early access and in to full release today
Back in April, we told you about the game World of Warships: Legends and its arrival to early access. This particular game is a...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming Team finally posted a new beta patch after months of public quiet
Apart from its brief announcement last week, City of Heroes' Homecoming Team has been relatively quiet the past few months. Where once the rogue...
The 2015 ArcheAge lawsuit finally nears a conclusion in the form of a settlement agreement
Lawsuits can be pretty long, but this one was a doozy. Let's review: In 2015, several ArcheAge players filed a class action lawsuit over...
The MOP Up: FFXIV hits play on Shadowbringers’ soundtrack
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Wings Over Atreia: Aion would make a better TV show than it does a game
It is no secret that Aion has frustrated me significantly to the point I can't even log in and play anymore. I get too...
Here’s what Ultima Online looks like in a real 3-D client
We all well know that Ultima Online is a partly 2-D game; the game world is made up of a largely flat graphics, even...
One Shots: The secret life of NPCs
What goes on with NPCs when you're not looking? Egocentric adventurers think that they're sitting around, sharpening blades, and preparing their spellbooks for encounters,...
Battle Bards Episode 150: The great plains
It may not be the most sexy or exotic of biomes, but plains tend to pop up in pretty much every MMORPG — and...
Path of Exile previews the upcoming ExileCon event in New Zealand
Fancy a trip to New Zealand this fall? Path of Exile's real-world ExileCon is happening in Auckland this year, and let me tell you,...
The Stream Team: Warframe water fights
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VR MMO Neon Exile has launched on Steam early access
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Here’s what’s coming with A Tale in the Desert’s 9th telling at the end of August
The Egyptian-themed crafting game A Tale in the Desert is currently winding down its eighth "Telling," with the final weeks offered for free to...
Secret World Legends and Trove offer compensation to players for recent bungles
For those of us who weathered the early days of MMOs when downtime and rollbacks were a daily occurrence, the idea of compensation might...
Star Trek Online players play with numbers to crack lockbox drop rates
While plenty of online games with lockboxes already have transparent lockboxes and far more are due to get them over the next year thanks...
The Stream Team: Taking long enough in Secret World Legends?
You know that look you get when you still haven't finished something you started? Yeah, Massively OP's MJ is getting that look about her...
Massively Overthinking: Morality and compelling choices in MMOs
The most recent episode of The Psychology of Video Games podcast touches on a subject we don't tackle very much: moral choices. It's an...
Become a raid boss and get rich in Lineage II’s Prelude to War update
Most MMO players have spent a substantial portion of their gaming careers beating the loot out of big, bad raid bosses, but if you've...
Vague Patch Notes: Random thoughts on randomness in MMOs
Here's a fun little trivia fact that you probably already know: Computers can't really do randomness. A random number is usually generated by pulling...
Aion spins out Mark of the Vandal on August 21 with a new class, zone, and dungeon for the US version
Over there, in Aion! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... actually, it's the Vandal, the new class being added with the appropriately dubbed...
EverQuest II is launching a new fabled zone in August’s GU111
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