free to play

‘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.

The Stream Team: Show me the SWTOR money!

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Are you tired of only pulling lint from your SWTOR pockets when you need copious amounts of credits to buy those swanky mounts, cool...

Global Chat: Making gaming resolutions

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Do you make New Year's resolutions for gaming? I do and I've seen more than a few bloggers come out in early January to...

Battle Bards Episode 66: The best of MOBA music

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This week on the Battle Bards podcast, the crew branches out from the familiar territory of MMO soundtracks and into the wild, untamed regions of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 46: The high price of VR

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Justin and Bree discuss the Oculus Rift's pricetag, Marvel Heroes' David Brevik, Divergence Online, Smed on emus, and TUG, with mailbag questions on tstories, MOBAs, and skill trees.

Devilian begins 20v20 guild tourneys, grants 15 days of bonus gifts

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Devilian players know that the game is absolutely shameless in its attempts to get you to log in and play it, with daily rewards,...

Hyperspace Beacon: How to make a million credits in an hour of SWTOR

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I can’t help but attempt to find some of the most efficient ways to make credits in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I have...

LOTRO’s new datacenter causes login headaches

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Lord of the Rings Online's move to its new datacenter yesterday triggered a few significant issues that were unseen by the dev team before...
You either didn't like the last answer or you didn't care then or now.

The Daily Grind: Are you a one-MMO gamer?

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A year ago, Kotaku published a piece called The People Who Only Play One Game. The author was talking about the rabid, cult followings that blockbuster...

RuneScape classic reopens for 15th anniversary

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In honor of RuneScape's 15th anniversary, Jagex Games Studio is letting more players experience the world as it was way back when. Current RuneScape players...

Be a guitar hero with Maplestory 2’s new instruments

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MapleStory 2 fans can now rock around the clock thanks to the gifting of new guitars and pianos to players. And there's no need...
Next on the skill list, Subduction.

Path of Exile shows off the Earthquake skill for big melee hits

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When Path of Exile launches its Ascendancy expansion, your character builds will have new skills to play with, and many of those new skills...
Sometimes you even get some cool stuff!

SWTOR runs January events to make up for December’s problems

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There were a lot of events planned for Star Wars: The Old Republic in December. Sure, they were the game's usual repeating events, but...

Ninelives welcomes you to explore its darkly mysterious world

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Have you heard of this game called Ninelives? It's recently started to gain some recognition with the start of its open alpha test, even...
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The Daily Grind: Do you use Steam for MMOs?

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Massively OP reader Damonvile recently sent us a link to a Medium piece on Steam declaring 2015 the best year for Steam -- ever. Sales...

EVE Evolved: Three things you don’t want to miss in 2016

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In the previous edition of EVE Evolved, I looked back at some of the big highlights EVE Online throughout 2015. It was a year that revolutionised...

The MOP Up: Age of Wushu Dynasty launches (January 10, 2016)

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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...

Check out what World of Warcraft looked like 17 years ago

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In 1999, the year that EverQuest released, work was already underway for another fantasy MMO called World of Warcraft. It wasn't until a couple...

One Shots: It came from the comments super-edition

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The One Shots community does love congregating on Sundays to post favorite MMO screenshots in the comments section. While I certainly do love and...

Massively OP’s guide to choosing an online ARPG

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Bored of MMOs, despondent about the industry, or simply looking for something a little different? Turning to something similar to MMOs, yet offering a new...

David Brevik’s new company is Graybeard Games; expect an RPG

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During a stream of Marvel Heroes led by his wife last night, former Gazillion CEO David Brevik announced that his new company is called...

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