‘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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AdventureQuest 3D Moglin plushies can be yours through Kickstarter
If you are a fan (or fanatic) of game-related plushies, AdventureQuest 3D has something you might want to check out. It's a Kickstarter for...
NCsoft Q3 2018: Aion, Blade & Soul, Guild Wars 2 revenues dip, while NCsoft teases three new titles
NCsoft's second quarter financials for the year hit this morning, and it's not exactly bad news. Sales are down slightly, but everything looks wimpy...
Warframe’s latest contest will put the winners’ adorable pup and kitteh inside the game
This is why we can have nice things: Digital Extremes is currently running a super adorable contest for Warframe players, and it involves the...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s summer pet-a-palooza
Massively OP's MJ thought Star Trek Online's summer event was pretty fun... and then she learned it had pets! Pets! Oh no. Obviously MJ...
The MOP Up: Worlds Adrift makes room for PvE servers (August 12, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...
One Shots: Selfie school
I certainly did not have to twist readers' arms to get them to bring out a mountain of MMORPG character selfies set against interesting...
Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
Global Chat: Is it worth your time to alpha test MMOs?
Taugrim raises a very interesting question this week on his blog. Namely, is it really worth your time to alpha test MMOs these days?...
The Daily Grind: Where have you gotten bogged down in MMO play?
Probably one of my biggest bugaboos (that's a technical term) in MMO play is when I get bogged down trying to progress through a...
League of Legends Lead Designer Ghostcrawler moves to an unnamed project
Let's play connect-the-dots today and see if we can see a picture forming over at Riot Games, shall we? Back in July, its co-founder...
The Stream Team: Artix’s special MOP live event in AQ3D
Are you ready for a Massively OP exclusive live event in AQ3D?! MJ sure is!! She has no idea what Artix is planning, but...
The Stream Team: Playing Secret World Legends’ The Game v2.0
Have you played The Game? Secret World Legends has a text game that mirrors the the real... we mean, game world. Massively OP's MJ...
TERA soars high with next week’s gloomy dragons and flight missions
Hope you don't have plans for next Tuesday, because TERA is bringing its big sky guns to bear for a major content update.
The Guardians...
Netmarble’s earning report shows more revenue from North American markets than Korea
Netmarble has released its earnings report for the most recent quarter, which means that if you love looking through investment reports for various companies,...
Path of Exile’s Delve launches August 31 with an infinite dungeon; here’s our chat with Grinding Gear’s Chris Wilson!
Picture this: an underground dungeon that gets progressively more challenging -- and rewarding -- the deeper you go, and there is no end. Not...
Runewaker’s Guardians of Ember is getting a relaunch in the west thanks to Gameforge
It's been a weird 2018 for Guardians of Ember. Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, citing review manipulation in...
RIFT datamining discovers a new companion system
A brand-new feature has been datamined on RIFT's test server, with players trying to figure out what this system entails.
It's called Planar Disciples, perhaps...
Lord of the Rings Online hypes up dragons, 64-bit client, and Minas Morgul
Last week's GenCon in Indy turned out to be a surprising source of information for fans of Standing Stone Games. First we found out...
Hands-on with mobile Old School Runescape, plus a chat with the Jagex devs
I experienced a couple firsts recently that you may not have expected from me, and they can both be summed up in two words:...
