‘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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RuneScape prepares a possible April Fools’ Day tease regarding mounts and its next major quest
April Fools' Day is apparently coming early to RuneScape as the MMORPG's weekly newsletter is promising mounts to players that will likely not exist...
Lineage 2 discusses the new werewolf class and wolf server coming with Project Wolf’s launch
Lineage II is basking in its newly contracted lycanthropy as it hypes up the April 15th Project Wolf update with a quick video that...
Mabinogi Mobile makes its debut to Korean fans, Mabinogi outlines update plans for the summer
It's new game time for South Korean fans of Mabinogi as the newly released Mabinogi Mobile made its debut for gamers in the country...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s April update brings jokes and jewels
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Who is Fawkes Games, Defiance’s new operator, and what other titles are under its care?
With Gamigo reviving and offloading sci-fi MMO Defiance to Fawkes Games for a relaunch next month, there's some question about who this Fawkes is...
One Shots: Neon to the max!
I certainly hope you weren't looking for a neutral color scheme that will go great with those IKEA cabinets and chairs you bought last...
Star Wars The Old Republic begins public testing of character facial updates, targets boss fight test for April
Are you ready to try on a new look in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Unfortunately this isn't to suggest that there are some...
World of Tanks promotes its Girls und Panzer crossover because why did it take this long to have this happen?
It's all right if you don't know anything about the anime Girls und Panzer. You don't really need to know anything about it to...
Battle Bards: The Final Refrain
It’s been a very long while, but the Battle Bards haven’t fully abandoned you — at least not without a goodbye! In the grand...
Warframe of Mind: Full impressions of the Temple ‘frame experience
As much as I would like to be known as an absolute grinding machine when it comes to Warframe - and I absolutely can...
The Daily Grind: Would you rather an MMO be over or underpopulated?
I was hanging out in Lord of the Rings Online this past weekend and saw an interesting conversation: While some folks are lamenting the...
Massively Overthinking: Do you multibox in MMORPGs?
Last week on Twitter, I saw someone refer disparagingly to EVE Online as "the multiboxing game." I want to talk about the concept of...
Path of Exile 2’s Dawn of the Hunt introduces the Huntress, rogue exiles, a mount, and heaps of support gems
With Path of Exile 2 being in early access beta instead of launched, I was unsure whether Grinding Gear Games would be keeping to...
Lord of the Rings Online will begin reactivating housing next week – in phases, so don’t panic yet
Our long national nightmare will soon be over: Lord of the Rings Online is finally turning back on the housing system starting next week.
OK,...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO you play isn’t always the MMO that was designed
There was, for a brief period of time, a window when World of Warcraft was moving toward a more deterministic gear structure that de-emphasized...
‘We like to make really big games’: John Smedley teases Distinct Possibility by namedropping PlanetSide 2 devs
Our regular readers and followers of the MMO genre already know the name of John Smedley. He was the former head of Sony Online...
Lord of the Rings Online plans for two additional 64-bit realms, indicates housing reactivation is coming soon
While Lord of the Rings Online's new 64-bit servers were touted as being capable of holding a substantially greater amount of players, SSG is...
Aion Classic EU will merge its servers into one on April 9
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Perfect Ten: The challenges of running challenge servers in MMOs
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Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 43.2 tackles bugs while transfers trudge onward after three weeks
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