‘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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Massively Overthinking: If an MMO item is buyable with gold, does that excuse its presence in the cash shop?
This week's Overthinking topic comes from longtime MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls. It's about monetization, but it's a nuanced argument we don't see...
Aion EU receives the Relic of Destruction update
Players of Aion on the EU side of things have a dragon to contend with. Update 6.5: Relic of Destruction has brought on some...
Grab a key for a Wild Terra armored boar mount courtesy of Juvty Worlds and MOP
Earlier this winter, Juvty Worlds announced it was taking its isometric sandbox MMO Wild Terra free-to-play. Since then, it's unleashed multiple events - St.Wodwose's...
Hyperspace Beacon: I wasn’t going to talk about Anthem, but I think I should
Like everyone else working in or around the gaming industry, I read Kotaku's Jason Schreier's exposé on BioWare's development of Anthem. And like many...
Wandering Wraeclast: A class guide to getting started in Path of Exile
Just because Path of Exile is more than five years old doesn't mean the influx of new players has dwindled. In fact, for quite...
Dauntless lays out its future plans with its new interactive roadmap
The Shattered Isles of Dauntless are constantly expanding with the addition of new features, new activities, and of course new, terrifying behemoths, and now,...
Neverwinter details the creation of Vanrakdoom and the Twisted Caverns
Herein lies the great contradiction for the underground zones of Neverwinter: The designers want you to feel as if you're hopelessly lost within an endless...
Equinox Prime and ongoing Riven changes arrive to Warframe
The rotating stock of Prime 'Frames in Warframe continues its carousel. Players who buy in to Prime Access can now get their hands on...
Classic EverQuest GDC panel reflects on development, design, and nostalgia
There are not many MMORPGs that have the well of 20 years of experience to draw from, which makes a game like EverQuest pretty...
TERA’s Reloaded update slams into consoles
It's not quite an expansion, but TERA's Reloaded update for consoles is being welcomed with the same kind of pomp and circumstance by En...
QC Games says it’s ‘winding down internal operations on Breach’
It looks as if Breach is in trouble, folks - or at least the company behind it is. In a message to players today,...
The Stream Team: SWTOR’s Tatooine balloon ride
Datacrons and balloon rides: The two are inexorably linked in SWTOR. Massively OP's Larry and MJ must fly over the Tatooine sand dunes in...
RIFT’s battle pass will run $9.99 and dole out rewards for doing dailies
Remember when Gamigo asked the community what it thought about the RIFT battle pass without actually telling anybody what was in said battle pass?...
Kotaku’s Anthem exposé unmasks a studio in ‘crisis’ – and BioWare’s response is alarming
Kotaku has another lengthy expose up today, this one homing in on Anthem. Author Jason Schreier interviewed 19 Anthem (and Anthem-adjacent) developers to paint...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 214: No fools we
Justin and Bree discus MMO April Fools' Day, Jumpgate's sequel, Funcom's new Secret World project, EverQuest 3, Rend's abrupt launch, Star Citizen's ladies, and Neverwinter and DDO's expansion dates, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, DDO, and Blade & Soul, and a mailbag question on MMO emulators.
Old School RuneScape’s Deadman Spring Final PvP tourney gets ganked by bugs
The Deadman Spring Finals -- Old School RuneScape's regularly held PvP tournament which pits 2,000 players against one another for a $20k cash prize...
The Daily Grind: Do you still get excited about upcoming MMORPGs?
It was the late aughts. My husband and I had scraped together money to fly to London for a meet-up with our Europe-based guildies....
The Stream Team: WoW! A stream
WoW! is it really happening? Is Massively OP's MJ really going to stream The Game That Shall Not Be Mentioned? Do you doubt us?...
Massively Uplifting: Bethesda’s gift to gaming granny, friendships forged in EverQuest and Guild Wars 2
It is no joke: There is plenty that's good going on in the gaming world, and we want to share that with you. You...
AQ3D’s 8bit NES Kickstarter is not a joke – it’s ‘the hottest game from 1985… created in 2019!’
Gonna be honest, when MJ linked this Kickstarter to me, I actually went straight to the April Fools' Day roundup and added it. I...
