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.

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The Daily Grind: What MMO will be the next to change up its business model dramatically?

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You may not like it, but the vast majority of MMORPGs are free-to-play or buy-to-play as of 2018. EVE Online went free-to-play at the...

Massively Overthinking: What’s the smallest MMO you’re willing to play?

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A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...

Star Trek Online allows you to re-engineer imperfect mods

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Don't like the gear that you've slapped into your starship in Star Trek Online? Don't ditch or sell it, but instead improve it with...

Neverwinter announces Lost City of Omu for February 27; check out the new trailer!

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Perfect World has just announced a new update for Dungeons and Dragons MMO Neverwinter - its first big update of the year and another...
Tell me you DO something.

Tamriel Infinium: Three things MMORPGs could learn from Elder Scrolls Online

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Looking at the title, you might think that I believe Elder Scrolls Online is the perfect MMO, and in that case, you'd be incorrect....

Secret World Legends’ NPCs awaken on Twitter

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As the Secret World Legends community continues to hold its breath in anticipation of what Funcom is planning for 2018, movement arrives in an...
ArcheAge

ArcheAge says new fresh start servers coming later in 2018

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Now that all of ArcheAge's fresh start realms have been converted to legacy servers, the community is burning with the question of when --...

EverQuest trots out a new lizardy lockbox

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Even with all of the discussion going on about lockboxes these days, it doesn't seem to be slowing down the release of such packs...

RuneScape dishes out its 2018 roadmap

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Get ready to "juice your sq'irks," whatever that means, because RuneScape is hitting 2018 at a dead run. Looking at the year ahead, Jagex...

Neverwinter launches its Sword of Chult update on consoles

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Lousy PC players with their first dibs on all the Neverwinter updates. Who needs a lousy Sword of Chult anyway? Not you, you're happy...

Saga of Lucimia widens its testing pool while hoping that its community will ‘play nice’

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Fresh off of its "largest" alpha test to date, Saga of Lucimia and its team are gearing up for a busy 2018. In a...

Perfect Ten: 10 tips for crafting a unique MMO character name

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Tell me if you've ever been here: You just finished spending way too much time pouring over options in the character creation screen and...

Here’s how one high school teacher uses Lord of the Rings Online in her English class

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What do you say that we all go and enroll at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics? Hear me out here: It's at this...

Lineage 2 Revolution counts 5 million players in 2 months

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Still scoffing at the idea of mobile MMOs? They're catching on anyway. Netmarble announced this week that five million people globally have signed up...
I suppose this is a problem I'm happy to complain about.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 152: Allied races and superhero sprints

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, ARK, Portal Knights, World of Warcraft, Champions Online, Fractured, Ship of Heroes, Black Desert, Elder Scrolls Online, and Life is Feudal, with mailbag questions on teaching MMO teamwork to kids and lockboxes vs. advertising.

Creditors lay claim to nearly $700,000 in Gazillion assets in bankruptcy case

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We named the sad death of Marvel Heroes the greatest MMO disappointment of 2017, and it appears it's not even over yet. Redditors noticed that on...
Hate the player, not the game! It's not the player's fault that they're in the game as it is.

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2018?

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It's tradition around here to take stock of Daybreak's MMO offerings every year, thanks to the fact that one of the first big stories...

Lockbox roundup: MMO studios on ‘elegant’ lockboxes, legal issues, and the ‘cosmetics only’ angle

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You know the lockbox thing is reaching saturation when there are so many things to cover we have to resort to a roundup. Nevertheless,...
Theoretically there's a non-jerk version of this out there, but...

ASUS throws its weight behind League of Legends in China

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Battle royale? Team shooters? League of Legends scoffs at these pretenders to the online throne, sitting on top of an e-sports empire that spans...

Global Chat: Love the farm, hate the farm

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How do you feel about grinding in MMOs? What about farming? These questions can elicit a wide variety of answers, from shrieks of dismay...

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