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‘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.

EverQuesting: First impressions of Landmark’s new story system

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When I shared my first impressions of Landmark's big spring update, I admitted that there was sadness to be had, but I also noted that...

Vette gets a big gun in SWTOR’s next chapter, Profit and Plunder

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Hot on the heals of last week's producer livestream announcement, we've gotten a look at the next Knights of the Fallen Empire chapter for Star...
ArcheAge

ArcheAge has big plans to merge its auction houses

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ArcheAge economy players, listen up: Big changes to your market system will likely affect you. In a new dev post, Trion explains that it will...

RIFT celebrates year five with new souls, patron quests, and multicore support

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RIFT's fifth anniversary festivities continue this week as the new playable Soul bundle has gone live along with the Carnival of the Ascended world...

Neverwinter’s tabletop campaign delivers a month of prizes

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Neverwinter's not-quite-an-April-Fools-joke tabletop game is scheduled to run through the entire month of April. This is not just to give players a chance of...

PlanetSide 2 hitbox hack gets called out, hotfixed by Daybreak

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When it comes to multiplayer shooters, issues like hitbox detection and size are always hot button topics for the community. But what if you...

Lord of the Rings Online gets a combat tune-up

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In all of the excitement of yesterday's Lord of the Rings Online Battle of Pelennor Fields update, it was probably easy to miss some of...
Look at the time!

Interview: Star Trek Online’s 11.5 mid-season update

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Yesterday's Season 11.5 update for Star Trek Online is a bit of a hodgepodge, an assortment of several separate pieces all sitting in the...

The Stream Team: Conquering more Chronicle: RuneScape Legends

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Now that MassiveolyOp's MJ has tested out all of the available legends, in Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, she can focus on her favorites: the magic-using Ariane...

Landmark ups prop limit, adds durability, and collapses build UI

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While certainly not as hefty as the one that introduced the mega claims, Landmark's latest patch introduces a slew of combat, building, prop, harvesting,...

Age of Conan launches Pit Master’s Arena, shelves crafting revamp, plans F2P improvements

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Funcom today pushed live a new update for Age of Conan called The Pit Master's Arena. "Fight exotic and deadly beasts for fame and...

Enter to win a Star Trek Online Vaadwaur Astika Heavy Battlecruiser from PWE and Massively OP

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In honor of Star Trek Online's mid-season 11.5 launch, PWE has granted Massively OP five Vaadwaur Astika Heavy Battlecruisers to give away to our readers! "Battlecruisers of the...

Working As Intended: Busting up the MMORPG nostalgia party

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Last week, a clever Massively OP commenter, SC_Deadline, neatly summed up the ongoing Nostalrius emulator shutdown as Blizzard "bust up someone's nostalgia party," which...
There are places I remember

A tour of RIFT 3.6: Celebration of the Ascended

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When an MMO hits its fifth anniversary, one hopes that the game's studio would pull out all of the stops to mark the occasion....

Character transfers in SWTOR were (temporarily?) free last night

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Our embedded reporter in Star Wars: The Old Republic -- me! -- discovered first-hand last night that character transfers had been made free for an unknown reason. This...

TERA’s Secrets & Shadows update arrives next month

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This should take some of the sting out of those layoffs: En Masse says TERA has a major update on the way for the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 60: Nostalrius down

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Justin and Bree discuss Nostalrius, TERA, Black Desert, SWTOR, DDO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, with mailbag questions on Kickstarters and Tabula Rasa.

Spellcheck won’t help you in TERA’s new Seek & Spell event

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Live with TERA's maintenance patch today is an contest-slash-event En Masse is calling Seek & Spell, so: Dictionaries at the ready! For the next three...

The Stream Team: Happy birthday World of Tanks!

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My, how time flies... or in this case, lumbers by on metal treads! World of Tanks has been letting players steamroll over each other...

Hyperspace Beacon: Impressions of SWTOR’s Visions in the Dark for gamers still on the fence

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After the last couple of lackluster chapters, I’ve lowered my expectations for the Star Wars: The Old Republic story. Not because I think that...

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