‘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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The Stream Team: How ’bout those Warframe TennoCon announcements?
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO suffers the most from powercreep?
Last month, an MOP reader named Swifty replied to our Daily Grind about the last MMO he'd quit by calling out EverQuest II -...
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RuneScape studio Jagex contradicts claim that its Chinese owner resold it
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The Daily Grind: Do you still have any faith left in Secret World Legends?
We slip on from the second anniversary of Secret World Legends and the game sure as heck looks pretty abandoned from this side of...
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I look forward to TennoCon ever single year. Warframe's big fan convention is the whole reason I started playing! And each year, Digital Extremes...
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