‘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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PlanetSide 2 Producer Nick Silva addresses Halloween event connection issues
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
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
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
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...
MapleStory 2 invites players to visit a totally-not-haunted hotel for Halloween, celebrates 1M registered players
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
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...
The Stream Team: Haunted Burrow and other LOTRO Halloween fun
Tricks and troves and haunted burrows -- that's what LOTRO's Harvest Festival is made of! And this year adds in even more items, more...
Path of Exile takes a look at the statistics of class picks for Delve league
You may not think of yourself as a particularly dedicated fan of the Delve league in Path of Exile, but the class breakdown for...
Star Wars: The Old Republic is giving players its first two story expansions for free
Mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has recently introduced a number of characters from the acclaimed Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old...
H1Z1 brings tricks and treats with Hauntfest event
As H1Z1 players await the beginning of season 2 in November, the folks at Daybreak Games are bringing a haunting holiday celebration for all...
The Stream Team: More Secret World Legends Samhain
Can Massively OP's MJ ever get enough Secret World Legends' Samhain? That would be a no. Or should we say, NooOOOOooOOooOoOOoOoo! There are more...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Age of Discovery Starter Pack on PC from PWE and MOP
Age of Discovery officially launched for Star Trek Online last week in a well-timed TV tie-in. To celebrate the launch, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of...
The LA Times investigates Riot Games’ ‘boys’ club’ sexism problem, ESPN reports Riot staff ‘departures’
If League of Legends company Riot Games thought that the Rockstar crunch conversation was going to eclipse Riot's sexism predicament, it can give up...
Hyperspace Beacon: Old characters, rumors, and nostalgia in Star Wars The Old Republic
I believe a game has hit an unusual place when players get nostalgic pangs for a game within the game itself. We see that kind...
Vague Patch Notes: How do you play MMOs when you know humans suffered to make them?
The original Star Wars film was a passion project for a then-young George Lucas, and it was a project that nearly killed Lucas from...
ArcheAge’s latest ‘server evolution’ process is underway
Yesterday, ArcheAge began the process of "server evolution," which is the name Trion Worlds has given to what is essentially a mass server merge...
MapleStory 2 is dealing with rash of gross player cosmetic uploads because of course it is
One of the more unique features of the recently launched MapleStory 2 is the ability for players to design and create custom cosmetic items...
The Daily Grind: Have you tried more MMOs now that almost everything is free-to-play?
It feels like a long time ago now (because it was about a decade) but I still vividly remember when Dungeons & Dragons Online...
Epic Games is suing still more Fortnite cheat creators
Looks like we've got another entry in the seemingly perpetual saga of game developers vs. cheat creators, as Epic Games is suing a pair...
World of Warships patch 0.7.1 adds in Halloween submarines along with other tweaks
The spookiest possible thing in World of Warships is the submarine. We already learned quite a bit about these new nautical terrors in a...
