‘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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Daybreak’s EverQuest-themed Fippyfest fan event will cost in-person attendees $1499
Last week, when Daybreak announced it's planning a live/digital EverQuest community event called Fippyfest in June, the studio said it'd be opening ticket sales...
Mabinogi opens a new microsite that details the MMO’s upgrade to Unreal Engine 5
Unreal Engine 5 seems to be the bees knees among game devs, especially those who are looking to upgrade their existing games to the...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records
I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it's somewhere between "for amusement value" and "stone cold...
LOTRO goes into a fourth round of Update 39 testing
Extensive testing of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 39 continues, as a fourth round of the beta activated this week. The promising news...
The Stream Team: Cat chairs and Guild Wars 2’s Realm of Dreams
There's brand-new content in Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure today! What is it about? You'll have to read Flameseeker Chronicles if you...
EverQuest II adds the remainder of its tradeskill achievements for the year ahead of time
All right, so if you're playing EverQuest II, you have plenty of achievements tracking throughout the entire year as the Year of Darkpaw rolls...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 459: A Gigantic return
Justin and Bree discuss Nightingale's launch, Gigantic's return, Guild Wars 2's Realm of Dreams, and Last Epoch's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on Wagadu Chronicles and TTRPG-MMO crossovers.
SWTOR initiates a pirate-laden PvP season as S5 Pirate’s Plunder begins
Star Wars has had its fair share of pirates and scoundrels over the years, and for 12 weeks this winter, SWTOR players are invited...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s The Realm of Dreams, launching today
Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard's Tower in...
Zenith OARPG Infinite Realms launches today as Steam reviews plummet over MMO development halt
There wasn't much lead-up to this - indeed, the world has known it was happening for less than a month - but Zenith's new...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever gone a long period without playing MMORPGs?
I was thinking about this topic a few weeks ago when chatting with MOP's Eliot about some of our formative experiences in the genre....
Warframe preps its Dante Unbound update and 11-year anniversary for March
The month of March is going to be here before you know it, and when it does arrive, it's bringing plenty of new content...
LOTRO and DDO’s Standing Stone Games invites fans to a meetup during PAX East
If you're heading out to PAX East next month and have any affinity for Lord of the Rings Online or Dungeons and Dragons Online,...
Old School RuneScape elevates its fight against botting, hits back against fake Varlamore leaks
Bots continue to be a constant source of conversation and presumption among the players of Old School RuneScape, particularly as Jagex made changes to...
Wisdom of Nym: The franchise references for monsters in Final Fantasy XIV
Final Fantasy XIV has no shortage of references to prior series enemies, but as with so many things, lots of those references are not...
VR MMO Zenith’s free-to-play spinoff Zenith Infinite Realms launches February 27
Well, that didn't take long: After only a week in open beta, Zenith: Infinite Realms, the free-to-play spinoff RPG of VR MMO Zenith, will...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever ruined an MMO character to the point of deletion?
I was hanging out in City of Heroes a few weeks back when someone in chat mentioned that back in the day, he had...
The MOP Up: Aion, Lineage 2, and Blade and Soul get ready for a new launcher
Blade and Soul, Lineage II, and Aion are all preparing to migrate everyone from the old launcher to the new PLAYNC platform. NCsoft posted...
Riot Games’ 2v2 tag fighter Project L is now 2XKO, plans playtests this year and launch in 2025
Riot Games would very likely appreciate it if fans would ignore the layoffs that swept over the studio just a month ago and instead...
One Shots: What am I looking at here?
Sometimes a screenshot ends up in my lap that I stare at for a long time and still have no idea what's going on...
