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: Hurrying to finish more EverQuest II Heritage Quests

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Now that all the holidays and festivals are over, MassivelyOP's MJ and the Of Mice and Minions crew can get back to completing all...

World of Tanks launches on PlayStation 4

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There's just no stopping the Wargaming blitzkrieg, is there? The PlayStation 4 is the latest platform to be host to World of Tanks, which...
big air

Massively OP Podcast Episode 47: The sky’s the limit!

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Justin and Bree discuss Diablo III, Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, Elder Scroll Online, TERA, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on a LOTRO reboot and volunteer worlds.

The Division will take up a chunk of your hard drive space

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Looking to get into The Division's beta this month? Then you'll need to clear up a nice little chunk of hard drive space if...

Hyperspace Beacon: Is SWTOR losing its MMORPG cred?

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One of the recurring gamer complaints about Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's becoming less and less an MMORPG over time. With Knights of the...

The Stream Team: Storm’s final steps to 60 in Marvel Heroes

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It seems like level 60 is always just out of reach for poor Storm in Marvel Heroes; Massively OP's MJ keeps getting distracted by...

World of Warships embarks on community event ‘Project R’

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Who would like a new destroyer? Wargaming just launched a five-week community event for World of Warships to bring the Kamikaze R destroyer back...
Well, here's hoping, at least.

Firefall prepares for update 1.6 with more than a day of downtime

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Here's the bad news for Firefall fans: the game is going down for maintenance on January 19th at 11:00 a.m. EST, and it's staying...

Fans are remaking RuneScape with Neverwinter Nights 2’s toolset

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Most RuneScape fans would probably agree that Jagex's game is very fine indeed, but there are always those who look at an MMO and think,...

The MOP Up: Titan Siege debuts (January 17, 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...

MMO Mechanics: MMORPG mechanics predictions for 2016

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In the last edition of MMO Mechanics, I looked back on 2015 and the mechanics I managed to squeeze into the column: We looked...

One Shots: This little piggy went to market

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I love me a good in-game marketplace. It always makes me think of commerce, of adventure, and of clashing worlds. Too bad we're usually...

The Game Archaeologist: Online gaming service providers of the ’80s and ’90s

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As graphical MMOs took off in the 1990s with the advent of games like Neverwinter Nights, The Realm, and Ultima Online, many of them...

Champions Online’s Teleios Ascendant update is on the way

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PWE and Cryptic Studios have just announced that Champions Online's latest content update will land on the public test server today. It's called Teleios...

PWE shuts down World of Jade Dynasty for redevelopment

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Perfect World Entertainment has decided that it will be going back to the drawing board with one of its newest titles. The studio announced today...
Oh dear.

TERA apologizes for the last producer’s letter, content gulfs

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Yesterday's letter to the TERA community went over like something of a lead balloon. Sure, the game had its best year ever, but players...
Classic.

SWTOR is plotting new companions and solo arena fights

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There's a lot of stuff coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic in 2016. Not all of it was ready to be discussed during...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best pay-to-win MMORPG?

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Here's an odd question from a Massively OP reader: What's the best pay-to-win MMO on the market? I know pay to win is a dirty,...

ESPN officially launches an e-sports division, picks up e-sports journalists

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When Activision-Blizzard acquired Major League Gaming earlier this month, CEO Bobby Kotick revealed his plans to create a kind of "ESPN of e-sports." It turns out that ESPN has had its...

Massively Overthinking: Just how massive is massively multiplayer?

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Recent tweaks to the taxonomy structure of Massively OP and coverage of what we formerly called "Not-So-Massive" games prompted a resurgence of internal discussion about the types...

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