‘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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World of Tanks apologizes for threatening to censor YouTuber
World of Tanks developer Wargaming has apologized for essentially threatening to abuse YouTube's copyright law to retaliate against an unpaid promotional partner who published a video...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best dungeon crawling experiences?
Dungeons are deeply on my mind as of late, mostly because I've been missing doing them in MMORPGs. It's odd: In particular MMOs, I...
The Stream Team: EverQuest II’s pirate-filled Proving Grounds
Last week Daybreak pulled a switcheroo (or more accurately, didn't switch!), keeping the Felwith map in EQII's new Proving Grounds instead of changing. But...
The jury is out on whether or not DOTA 2 actually belongs to Valve
It's not very interesting to see a big company take knockoff companies to court to argue that the knockoff companies are violating intellectual property....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 118: Crowfall breaks up the band
Justin and Bree discuss ESO Morrowind, Crowfall, Wild West Online, Destiny 2, Funcom financials, Star Citizen, SWTOR, Dreamfall Chapters, and Ultima Online, with a mailbag question on dating in MMOs.
Warframe developer confirms retro hybrid shooter Keystone
Warframe has been positively kicking ass this past year, doing what MMOs seldom do: continue breaking its own concurrency records four years in. So...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to The Secret World
With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...
Improbable’s plan for rescuing the MMO genre from ‘nuclear winter’ involves a crapton of money
Improbable keeps popping up in news stories relating to MMOs lately -- that's thanks to SpatialOS, what the company is calling a "distributed computing...
Marvel Heroes Omega soft launches on PlayStation 4 today
Console geeks assemble! It's time to throw off the shackles of responsibility, hygiene, and relationships to devote yourself to a straight week or two of...
Hands-on with En Masse action MMO Kritika Online ahead of closed beta
If you are a fan of action and anime, you might want to keep your eye on Kritika Online. Although this game has been...
RuneScape’s new slayer dungeon breaks all of the rules
Just because RuneScape's standard skill cap is set at 99 won't stop the team from busting through that ceiling when next month's expansion arrives.
On...
TERA’s third week of anniversary rewards includes a pin-up car
The last week of TERA anniversary rewards is almost upon us, starting on 5/23. That means you still have one more day to turn...
PSA: Today’s the last day to get a freebie level 100 toon in EverQuest II
If you haven't hopped back into EverQuest II since the launch of The Menagerie update earlier this month, you might want to do it...
World of Tanks demonstrates how to chill games criticism on YouTube in three easy steps
The World of Tanks community is in uproar this week over the removal of a prominent YouTuber from the game's developer-backed promotional program and...
Wynncraft fashioned a free MMO out of Minecraft
Love MMOs? Have a hankering for Minecraft? Your desire for the two aren't mutually exclusive in the case of Wynncraft!
If you haven't heard about...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s green beetle fiasco (May 21, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
APB Reloaded brainstorms a ‘gangland survival mode’
See if you can follow the chain of progression here. In APB Reloaded's most recent dev diary, the team says that it's about done...
One Shots: Head of the class
What do you do if you're a sentient stone head who has been tasked with centuries of guard duty? You probably do a lot...
The Stream Team: An anniversary amble through Age of Conan
Massively OP's MJ created her Funcom account exactly nine years ago for the launch of Age of Conan. And for the anniversary, she's dusting...
LOTRO Legendarium: Bingo Boffin’s unexpected journey
In addition to playing a lot of fantasy and sci-fi MMORPGs, I'm an avid reader of novels in the same genres. I never quite...
