‘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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TERA update is live on PC with the PvP Shore Hold battleground and PvE dungeon
When TERA players get tired of whaling on giant monsters, they turn to whaling on each other with giant weapons. Hey, they have a...
The Stream Team: Grinding ice in AdventureQuest 3D
Massively OP's MJ fancies the frozen barbarian armor in AQ3D's Frostlorn Keep. However, to get it she needs to run quite a few challenge...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019
Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
Closers will merge its NA and EU servers into a single world server on January 29
This month, anime-action MMO Closers will be bringing continents together as it merges its NA and EU servers into a single worldwide server in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 204: SpatialOS spasms
Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.
Interview: Astellia’s western team on pay-to-win, themeparks, and dodging early access and battle royale
Yesterday we covered the news that South Korean born MMORPG Astellia is heading westward in 2019, with its holy trinity classes, solid PvE and...
The Stream Team: Been there, betrayed that in Path of Exile
Massively OP's MJ has been making deals left and right during her playthrough of Path of Exile's Betrayal League. Some of these are finally...
Age of Conan players kill 1.5 million mobs for a fancy cloak
The blood is still flowing hot and fast on Age of Conan's Saga of Blood server. The special ruleset shard, which went live last...
Fallen Earth teases asset import progress on its code-rewrite initial tests
It's been pretty strange - but a happy sort of strange - watching Fallen Earth filter back into our newsroom and the collective consciousness...
ArcheAge 5.1 launches Wednesday with revamps for the Abyssal Library and hero system
Making good on its promise of "new content on a regular basis" for the games it acquired when it bought Trion Worlds, Gamigo is...
Slay by the seaside in TERA’s upcoming Shore Hold update for PC
Although TERA just released a pretty major update for console players last week, adding a brand-new class and a new dungeon, the devs at En...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s Battle at the Binary Stars heats up
Star Trek Online has a serious crush on Discovery right now -- and why not, since the show has propeled the franchise back into...
Jukebox Heroes: Bless Online’s soundtrack
You probably wouldn't blame me for the fact that I've dragged my feet on listening to the Bless Online soundtrack over this past year....
A mutated queen awaits Star Wars: The Old Republic players
Think you've discovered everything there is about Ossus in Star Wars: The Old Republic? You're in for a bit of a shock, then, because...
LOTRO Legendarium: A requiem for trait lines
Back in last October when Standing Stone Games announced that it would be launching the legendary server type, one of the most contentious points...
Old School RuneScape patches in a new region for PC and mobile players
Step aside, RuneScape - you're not the only Jagex game getting a big update this week. Indeed, Old School RuneScape officially launched what Jagex...
Path of Exile’s team is back at work with the first Betrayal League patch of the year
It's good to know that the team behind Path of Exile took some time off for the holiday, since all outward indications are that this...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2019?
Way back in 2015, not long after the SOE game purge and Daybreak transition that laid off a huge number of developers, we began...
For Science: The psychology of online gaming toxicity, fanpersonism, and gamer identity
Over the holidays, I bumped into some great video material from author and YouTuber Caleb Ross that seems useful for online gamers in particular....
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2019
With nearly all of our end-of-2018 content finally and blissfully behind us - seriously, I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when it's...
