‘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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Elder Scrolls Online’s Matt Firor on Morrowind, Dark Age of Camelot, and the old days of MMOs
Ahead of E3, ZeniMax's Matt Firor sat down with Gamasutra for a streamed interview on The Elder Scrolls Online, focused chiefly on Morrowind. It's...
Revelation Online offers a quick tour of Sidus Ur
Most of the world of Revelation Online is not safe to explore. It's a dangerous place, and there's battle at every turn. But Sidus...
Trion Worlds brings Joe Brogno on as ArcheAge’s new community manager
There's a new sheriff on ArcheAge's forums, and his fearsome name is Muzzy.
Trion Worlds announced Joe Brogno, otherwise known as "Muzzy" to the studio's...
Siltbreaker, the first chunk of Dota 2’s co-op PvE campaign, is now live
It seems co-op multiplayer campaigns are the thing for MOBAs to do lately, if SMITE and Master X Master and Dota 2 are any...
Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia
Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...
One Shots: Walk of shame
From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast:
Log into a game to do some play testing.
"Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
The Stream Team: A Massiversary in Aion
Today marks seven years that MJ has been with Massively(OP), and to commemorate the milestone she's going to spend time in the game that...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
The Daily Grind: Do we deserve better damage models in MMOs?
For all of the changes, iterations, and evolutions that MMORPGs have undergone over the years, it still feels like we're back in the 1990s...
RIFT doubles all advancement this weekend
It's hard to decide whether double XP weekends in MMOs are a blessing or a cruel prank. On one hand, hey, faster advancement and...
The Stream Team: A peek at Path of Exile’s The Fall of Oriath beta
Massively OP's MJ spent time in the alpha of Path of Exile's upcoming The Fall of Oriath expansion, and she's just been waiting for...
Revelation Online details all manner of guild-exclusive activities
If you want to treat your guild in Revelation Online as nothing more than a chat channel, you're missing out on a lot of...
Defiance heats up summer with a new high-powered event
We may be past the days of the almighty transmedia synergy, but Defiance is not ready to give up its penchant for world-changing events....
Hands-on with Path of Exile’s upcoming The Fall of Oriath expansion
If you were given the opportunity to jump in and experience Path of Exile upcoming The Fall of Oriath expansion early, you would, wouldn't...
Massively OP chats with Star Trek Online Kuumaarke actress Kipleigh Brown
If you haven't yet played the most recent Star Trek Online update on consoles, you might not be aware that you're going to be...
Marvel Heroes Omega launches on Xbox One, PS4 on June 30
Xbox One players, you're about to get a crack at playing Marvel Heroes on your platform of choice. Gazillion has just announced that Marvel...
Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
Moonlight Blade shows off its loli characters
If you're the kind of player who won't play TERA because of the Elin, kindly exit this article because you're not going to like...
Cryptic’s CEO discusses taking an IP and making it work for an MMO
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The Stream Team: Entering the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos
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