‘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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Snag a TERA anniversary gift bundle and celebrate the MMO’s seventh birthday
It's a big month for TERA: En Masse's flagship MMORPG is in the swing of its 7th anniversary celebrations, and we've got a fun...
Dota 2 paywalls its Avoid Player feature by including it with its Battle Pass
The nature of the beast in team-based competitive games is this awful notion that frustration with how a match plays out gives one carte...
The Stream Team: Celebrating 11 years of Age of Conan
Another of year of Age of Conan has whizzed by. Today, this iteration of Hyboria celebrates its 11th birthday, and Massively OP's MJ is...
MMO Cartographer: Climbing the Tree of Savior
A friend of mine from one of my other hobbies recommended Tree of Savior to me a while back, but I was deep down...
Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles
This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...
Ex-Cryptic Studios artist decries ‘harmful’ video game lockbox designs based on slot machines
A 3-D character artist who previously worked at Cryptic Studios on Champions Online and Neverwinter has come out swinging against lockbox mechanics, saying that...
Battle Bards Episode 144: Colors of the rainbow
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet: Combined, these forces create the awesome power of Roy G. Biv — otherwise known as the...
The MOP Up: Dauntless’ forums are down for a month as the game goes offline until Tuesday
No doubt that you have heard about Dauntless' launch on Tuesday, May 21st. And while that marks a new beginning for the monster hunting...
The Stream Team: Next up in Warframe is Natah
Massively OP's MJ is on a quest to get through Warframe's biggest story missions before TennoCon, but her time is running out. The goal...
Riot Games isn’t budging on labor dispute even after employee walkout
As we've previously covered, employees of the League of Legends studio Riot Games walked out last week in protest over the company's labor and...
The Jovian Concord improves Gas City and adds Wisp to Warframe next week on PC
As of this next update, Warframe will have 40 unique characters to choose from. Those are a lot of options for taking out waves...
ArcheAge’s Black Dragon world boss is live today – best not teach it ‘dracarys’
ArcheAge has been teasing dragons all week - it's the thing to do right now, after all, if you're remotely tuned in to the...
The Daily Grind: Which studio should be running your MMO?
It continues to sadden my heart to see RIFT -- and the rest of the Trion Worlds library -- limp on under the supervision...
Massively Overthinking: Unpopular MMORPG opinions
Unpopular opinions: We all have them. In fact we have so many that it's a straight up meme. This week's Massively Overthinking is one...
EverQuest updates with tweaks and improvements to its user interface
Sometimes, the little changes have a big impact. EverQuest has a long and storied history and it's still getting new expansions, but it also can...
Riot takes action against League of Legends esports team Echo Fox over allegations of racist abuse
League of Legends esports team Echo Fox is in hot water with Riot following allegations of racist abuse by one of the team's major...
AdventureQuest 3D’s Battleon revamp promises player housing, fishing, and live music events
If you play AdventureQuest 3D, you already know that the main town of Battleon recently burned to the ground and was rebuilt this past...
Blade & Soul’s Scarlet Tears update is now live
The latest update to NCSoft's free-to-play martial-arts MMORPG Blade & Soul has just gone live, bringing with it a fistful of new content for...
The Stream Team: Imperial and Republic Balmorra datacron hunting in SWTOR
Just because Massively OP's Larry and MJ have retrieved the hardest datacron in SWTOR, doesn't mean they are anywhere close to being finished. There...
Got booty? SWTOR does with its Pirate Incursion event
Even in a galaxy far, far away, pirates are ever-present with their plundering and drunken carousing and Johnny Depp movies. But at least now...
