free to play

‘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.

Trion Worlds has been sold to Gamigo, and yes, there have been more layoffs

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File this one under "huge things that rudely happened while we were all in the middle of recording the podcast": Trion Worlds has apparently...

Fortnite delays Save the World F2P, promises sweeping PvE revamp, and teases Halloween

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We're actually surprised that Fortnite's PvE mode, Save the World, does so well. Relegated to the virtual backburner ever since the game's hastily constructed...

Shroud of the Avatar’s R59 newbie experience, Travian Games, and Reddit’s pay-to-chat complaints

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter homes in on the game's 59th release, due out at the end of the month and currently on...
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Path of Exile may be coming to PlayStation 4, Taiwanese rating board listing reveals

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Grinding Gear Games's free-to-play action-RPG Path of Exile has been available on Xbox One for over a year now, but so far PlayStation 4...
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Star Trek Online lays out its plans for the rest of the year and the start of the next

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The year is not quite over, but Star Trek Online is already thinking about the end of this year and the start of the...

The MOP Up: Mutant Year Zero breaks down the barriers

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I think a lot of us unfamiliar with the IP might be giving Funcom's upcoming Mutant Year Zero a wary look and a wide...

One Shots: Waifu dreams

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Make no bones about it, MapleStory 2 is as anime as they come. Need proof beyond the huge eyes, overdone expressions, and ultra-saturated cuteness?...

The Stream Team: Hanging out at RIFT’s Harvest Festival

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RIFT's Autumn Harvest festival is back up and running, and that means Massively OP's MJ is heading in to partake! She's going to eke...

MMO Business Roundup: Discord’s new TOS, Steam China, EA vs Actiblizz, Dota 2’s transparent lockboxes, WASD

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Welcome back to another roundup of businessy things of interest to MMO players this week! Discord If you're one of the bajillions of MMO players who...

LOTRO Legendarium: Wait a minute, LOTRO, you lost me

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If WildStar will go down in gaming history as the MMO with the consistently shortest quest text, then Lord of the Rings Online has...

The Daily Grind: Why don’t players use emotes more in MMOs?

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The other day I was reading up on Fallout 76's emote wheel -- brought to you by Bethesda's console tunnel vision -- and was...
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Aion is rebalancing its economy (and removing a lot of money) with Awakened Legacy

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You there! How much money do you have in Aion? Because it might just be too darn much. One of the things being done...

Warframe’s Fortuna expansion widens the open world this November

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We've finally got a launch window for the Fortuna update that Warframe's Digital Extremes first revealed at TennoCon this past summer: It's coming next...
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Dauntless introduces a new behemoth, the Riftstalker

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Something wicked Dauntless's way comes. This year's Dark Harvest has just gotten a whole lot darker with the arrival of a brand-new behemoth, the...

PlanetSide 2 Producer Nick Silva addresses Halloween event connection issues

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Last week, Daybreak Games updated PlanetSide 2 with its Halloween event, Nanite of the Living Dead V: Seeds of Terror, but unfortunately, not everything...

Chaos Theory: A guide to Secret World Legend’s Samhain 2018 community events

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If you thought that all Samhain had to offer was official Secret World Legends missions and events, you'd be mistaken. A-machete-through-the-skull sorely mistaken. In...

Lord of the Rings Online had to disable more content for fixes – this time it’s Harvestmath Festival quests

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It just has not been Standing Stone's week, at least where Lord of the Rings Online is concerned. First it had to fully disable the...

Funcom allowed a fan to publish and sell a novel based on the Secret World franchise

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Here's one for the warm fuzzies bin: MOP reader Ocho (@BigMikeyOcho) of Casual Aggro and Beyond the Veil was first to cover the fact...
This looks pleasant.

MapleStory 2 invites players to visit a totally-not-haunted hotel for Halloween, celebrates 1M registered players

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Although the folks at Nexon are probably still recuperating after the launch of MapleStory 2 -- which has already garnered over a million account...

Warframe announces Day of the Dead event festivities

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The Day of the Dead has come to Digital Extremes's space-ninja shooter Warframe, and it brings with it a slew of suitably spooky skins...

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