‘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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Neverwinter celebrates its fourth birthday with events and unicorn mounts
Neverwinter is prepping the celebration of the anniversary of its hard launch on PC way back in 2013. The festivities, dubbed The Protector's Jubilee,...
Revelation Online explores the motivation of the Pirate Crew faction
Pirates! It's pretty easy to understand the motivation of pirates most of the time; pirates want to get stuff by taking it from other...
City of Titans on endgame, alting, PvP, business models, lockboxes, and whales
The first and most-backed City of Heroes successor City of Titans has a couple of dev pieces out this month answering questions posed to...
Choose My Adventure: Finishing up in Neverwinter
I'm going to be honest, before playing Neverwinter I had a very different picture of this game in my head in some ways. Not...
LOTRO players uncover secret anniversary quest
While Lord of the Rings Online's anniversary began back in April, it is only now coming to completion with this week's addition of the...
Wurm Online discusses upcoming changes to creature behavior
The animals in Wurm Online aren't just there to be captured and/or killed by players. They're meant to act in a plausible manner, avoiding...
RIFT doubles loyalty points on store purchases
Been saving up your nickels and dimes for trips to the malt shop and the penny candy counter? (Also, do you have some sort...
Lineage 2 Revolution has soft launched on Google Play and iTunes
The Netmarble take on NCsoft's Lineage franchise, Lineage 2 Revolution, has soft launched as a global version in multiple English-speaking markets and app stores...
Neverwinter jacks up enemy difficulty, gear levels
It makes sense that in an update where some of your enemies are going to be bona fide dinosaurs, the difficulty of combat encounters...
E3 2017: Former SWTOR writer Drew Karpyshyn is working on Anthem
It's still very early to get excited about BioWare's upcoming co-op shooter Anthem, but the game is bringing in veteran talent for development. Drew...
EverQuest II creates a new type of progression server
EverQuest II is no stranger to Daybreak's penchant for creating and operating progression servers. But after all of these years, is there a way...
Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
The Stream Team: Resistance is not futile In SWTOR
Last time in SWTOR's Choose My Alignment adventures, the audience made a big decision that will influence the story going forward. What choices will...
Path of Exile starts selling Fall of Oriath supporter packs
Money talks -- and it paves the way to betas, as we've seen many times in this genre. So if you're a little nervous...
The Stream Team: Exploring ArcheAge’s Erenor Eternal
ArcheAge's Erenor Eternal update has launched, and Massively OP's MJ is all about exploring those new lands. She'll be poking around Aegis Island and...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lance for Xbox One
In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online's season 13 Escalation for console, PWE has granted Massively OP a stack of Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lances, a...
Global Chat: Why FFXIV is the most newbie-friendly MMO
What's the most newbie-friendly MMO? According to Pete at Dragonchasers, it's Final Fantasy XIV. He's been pretty impressed by the support structure that the...
E3 2017: CCP’s VR sports game Sparc debuts new trailer, summer PSVR launch
First announced back in February, CCP's multiplayer VR sports sim Sparc is getting the E3 treatment this week, being available for play (and spectating)...
Neverwinter’s Jungles of Chult has better daily tasks and more reward options
On some level, all Neverwinter really needs to do for Jungles of Chult is to remind you how you'll get to fight dinosaurs. That's...
Summer of SWTOR kicks off with the return of the Nar Shaddaa nightlife event
The so-called "Summer of SWTOR" is officially underway now that BioWare has pushed out Game Update 5.2.2.
It's not the biggest patch in the world,...