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.

Analyze.

Warframe revises focus system, adds dynamic weather

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Perfectionists, nitpickers, or insecure? Your call on Warframe's development team, although it does look like the members are striving to make the best game...

LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem

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One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
DAGRON

Champions Online surprises us with a new fire archetype

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It always seems such a shame that Champions Online's free-to-play model leans so hard on preset archetype builds instead of allowing everyone to build...

The Stream Team: Working toward joining Path of Exile’s War for the Atlas

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Because Zana, the Master Cartographer, moved to the end of Path of Exile's Act X, Massively OP's MJ cannot yet access the Atlas of...

Leaderboard: How should MMORPG studios communicate to players?

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The most peculiar comment thread erupted in MJ's recent post about Secret World Legends' Krampusnacht. In response to the casual note that the holiday...
Man-dope.

Amazon stops selling digital cards for Star Wars: The Old Republic

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You can no longer purchase digital time cards or Cartel Coins for Star Wars: The Old Republic through Amazon. This is clearly a sign...
HELLO? HELLO! HI! OPEN THE DOOR!

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping things up in Secret World Legends

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One of the things that I promised way back when I started writing this series about Secret World Legends was to mention the way...
THE CLAMPS!

Path of Exile’s War for the Atlas expansion is live today

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Path of Exile's free-to-play War for the Atlas expansion is slated to go live this afternoon on PC, expanding the gameworld for diehard MMOARPG...
uh, guys, really?

RIFT puts an endgame currency out for real-money sales

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Look, we can all agree that "pay-to-win" is, at the very least, a difficult concept to be certain about. Right? There's a lot of...

Overwatch snags two Game Awards while Destiny 2 is honored by six nominations

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Did you catch last night's Game Awards from LA? If not, you probably didn't miss anything super-groundbreaking, although Overwatch did quite well for itself...
Damn you!

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017

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Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year. Now imagine what gets said behind...
Darn, no.

Lineage 2 EU completes its current story saga, plans free weekend on its classic server

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Big things are afoot in the realm of Lineage 2 this week. Its European version just added "The Last Page -- Salvation" update that...
And on the end of the gun... was a HOOK!

TERA hosts first PlayStation 4 public demo this week

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So what do you think about TERA's prospects as a console MMORPG after hearing that it is coming to the PlayStation 4? It seems...

The Stream Team: A soiree with Said in Secret World Legends

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The day has finally come for Massively OP's MJ to spend some time with Said, everyone's favorite mummy in Secret World Legends! For her,...

Perfect World Entertainment sprinkles holiday events across its library

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With so many Christmas events popping up this month, there's no time nor space to spread them out. Perfect World Entertainment seems to think...

Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements

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Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, it’s time to destroy the Eternal Empire

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Those players who were looking for consequence in their Star Wars: The Old Republic storyline can, I'm glad to say, look to Knights of...
It would be difficult to master this again.

A ‘remastered’ version of ArcheAge is due out in Korea in 2018

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Would it be fair to say that XLGAMES has "mastered" ArcheAge? The developer behind it has been working on the live version for five...
oh GROSS

Tera M is not friendly to free players in its Korean version

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Eager to have all of the gameplay of TERA in the palm of your hand with TERA M? You might want to be a...

Vindictus introduces the girl with the dragon spine

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If there is one thing that we have learned about Korean MMOs, it's that the smaller the girl, the bigger the weapon she carries....

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