‘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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Enter the Scarlet Conservatory in Blade & Soul’s Scarlet Tears update, coming May 15
Blade & Soul has announced that its next major update, Scarlet Tears, will be going live on May 15th, bringing with it a new...
Star Wars MMOs pay tribute to the life of Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew
Star Wars fans are in mourning tonight as the original actor behind everyone's favorite walking carpet Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew, is now one with the...
The Stream Team: Finishing LOTRO’s anniversary missions
With 12 years of anniversary missions in LOTRO, Massively OP's MJ was unable to complete them all last week. Thanks to the slimmed down,...
Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs
The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...
Grab a RIFT flame squirrel pet from Gamigo and MOP in honor of the game’s first battle pass
RIFT players are in the midst of the game's very first battle pass, which offers special daily quests and 30 levels of rewards to...
Vindictus releases the gun witch Eira and launches the Golden Time event
Vindictus is about to get a lot more shooty and portal magic-y. Eira the Void Witch, the pistol-toting temporal magic user that was first...
The Stream Team: Celebrating seven years of TERA
Can you get seven years of bad luck if you break a game on its seventh birthday? Massively OP's MJ is going to test...
Star Trek Online sets the stage for Rise of Discovery’s first act with a new lore snippet
The next chapter of Star Trek Online's Age of Discovery storyline is about to unfold with the release of the first installment in the...
Path of Exile rolls out patch 3.6.4 with performance improvements and bug fixes
The team behind Path of Exile is hard at work on the game's next expansion, but that doesn't mean that no one is paying attention...
The Stream Team: SWTOR’s Makeb datacron torture, take two
Mayday! May Day! Danger ahead! Now that Massively OP's Larry and MJ's heart rates have finally gotten back to normal, they are ready to...
Here’s how SWTOR and Star Wars Galaxies Legends are celebrating May the 4th
You know, I'm not a holiday person generally, but for May 4th, I'll make an exception, as it's for Star Wars. As in May...
TERA is turning seven – here’s what it’s getting you for the occasion
Wow, it's hard to believe TERA is turning seven in May, but here we are. En Masse has plenty of fun planned too, including...
Drakensang Online’s latest patch brings PvP improvements and the newest iteration of the Helios Games
The latest update for Bigpoint's free-to-play fantasy MMORPG Drakensang Online is live today, and it brings with it the first of the game's planned...
RuneScape: 2018 financials, clan quality-of-life changes delayed, and Lootscape
Jagex has big news today: The RuneScape company says 2018 was its best year ever, thanks to a more than 9% increase in revenue...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Cloak of the Vine in honor of Undermountain’s PC launch!
To celebrate the launch of Undermountain for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 100 cloak keys to give away to our readers! The Cloak of...
Choose My Adventure: The simple joys of RuneScape and duo gameplay
I've often wondered to myself why there seem to be so many in-development MMORPGs that stubbornly and desperately cling to the idea of the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic outlines the plans for upcoming reveals surrounding the Onslaught expansion
A lot of stuff is arriving in Star Wars: The Old Republic with its next expansion, Onslaught. There's a new playable race (Nautolans), two new planets...
Riot Games acknowledges employees planning walkout over company culture
Over the weekend, we once again covered the continuing fiasco that is League of Legends' Riot Games, when as Kotaku first reported, two of...
Wurm Online devs lay out development cycle changes as they work toward a ‘more consistent’ update schedule
According to the latest Wurm Online developer blog, the devs are making some big changes to their update cycle cadence, moving away from the...
Classic PlanetSide fans keep their favorite MMOFPS alive
While we have heard a lot about a certain superhero MMO recently that the community is attempting to resurrect, there are several other sunsetted...
