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‘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.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 165: Step into the Morninglight

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Justin and MJ discuss Secret World Legends, DDO, WoW, Conan Exiles, RIFT, LOTRO, TERA, Ultima Online, ArcheAge, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on combat combos and recapturing former players.

Leaderboard: Are you still playing Secret World Legends?

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I've always been curious about you folks who forgave Funcom for 2017. I'm not sure that, were I a hardcore old-school Secret World player,...

The Stream Team: Solving SWTOR’s Chapter VI story puzzles

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Last time, Massively OP's Larry and MJ infiltrated Vaylin's party and got just as far as the kitchen in the puzzles of KOTET’s Chapter...

Guild Wars 2 has completely overhauled gathering tools with glyph upgrades and wardrobe implementation

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A couple of weeks ago, a nasty patch bug borked up harvesting tools in Guild Wars 2. Hardest hit were the endless-use versions that...

Trion declares RIFT Prime a ‘massive success’ with ‘thousands’ of subbing players

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You'd hardly expect an MMO company to send along a press release declaring its game a failure, right? Indeed, Trion's PR this morning argues...

PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever

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At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...

The MOP Up: Paladins’ newest hero will punch your head off (April 8, 2018)

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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...

Jukebox Heroes: Five great YouTube channels for MMO music

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As a collector and reviewer of MMORPG soundtracks, I owe a great debt to fellow music lovers who take the time to somehow extract...

One Shots: Fun with filters

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You know all of those weird filter effects that you have in your photo editing software? There always seems to be a stigma against...

RIFT throws out second progression server challenge

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While the wait continues to hear what RIFT is going to do with its Prime progression server, Trion Worlds has kicked off a second...

Chaos Theory: Rushing Secret World Legends’ main story mission is a bad idea

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If there is one thing this past week has emphasized to me, it's that powering through just the main story missions of Secret World...
Ultima Online

Leaderboard: Are you giving Ultima Online’s Endless Journey F2P conversion a try?

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With the launch of Ultima Online's Endless Journey free-to-play conversion this week, a whole lotta old-school MMORPG players are turning their attention back to...

The Daily Grind: Are there MMO mobs you feel bad about killing?

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Call me a softy, but I always cringe when I am sent in to slaughter the small, the fluffy, and the cute in MMOs....

The Stream Team: Meet the mind behind AdventureQuest 3D’s new World Tree

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Brand-new content just opened up today in AQ3D, and Massively OP's MJ is excited to jump in and show it off. But even cooler...

Here are all of the class nerfs and buffs coming with SWTOR’s 5.9

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Just like a certain farmboy looking wistfully up at twin suns and thinking of his future, Star Wars: The Old Republic fans are looking...

Making my way through RIFT Prime’s progression server

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It has been a month since that fateful day back in March when the MMO collectively lost its mind by rushing back to play...

Ultima Online’s F2P conversion, Endless Journey, is officially live with new ‘deluxe starter pack’

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At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play. Game...

ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches tonight with new fresh start servers

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ArcheAge's 4.5 update is going live tonight, complete with raise-able dragon battle mounts and shadow invasion content provoked when big world bosses are downed....

Defiance 2050 puts out the call for beta testers

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With Defiance's reboot scheduled for this summer, Trion Worlds needs as many testers as possible to help run the game through its paces. This is...
Bring out your dead, I guess.

Choose My Adventure: Warframe in review

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It's funny how presentation problems can have such a huge impact on the same product. Warframe, as a game, is almost crippled by its lack...

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