‘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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Marvel Heroics: Fighting the inventory blues
Diablo-type games balance on a see-saw of distribution and acquisition; the games explode with loot while giving you limited space to store all of...
The Daily Grind: What have you regretted doing in MMOs lately?
I did a dumb thing.
A week or so ago, I splurged with real-world cash to pick up the new Yavin stronghold in Star Wars:...
Gamescom 2015: SWTOR expansion news and trailer
In Cologne, Germany, EA began its press conference for Gamescom 2015 with the typical action sequence montage from single-player games, but what MMO fans...
The Stream Team: Hunting shiny swords and special earrings in EverQuest II’s Heritage Quests
Although MassivelyOP's MJ has been spending some time on EQII's progression server, she'll never abandon her home on Antonia Bayle. There's just so much...
Pirate101 preps ranked PvP and faster combat animations
Are ye a scallywag or a true buccaneer? If ye hew to the latter, then you'll no doubt be excited about the next big...
Neverwinter bringing four modules to Xbox One in September
The Xbox One version of Neverwinter has been left behind compared its PC counterpart shortly after launching on the console, thanks to faster and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 24: WoW speculation
Justin and Bree discuss WoW's next expansion, Trove, Project Gorgon, DDO, NCsoft's quarterly report, and Neverwinter, with mailbag questions on emotional investment and the state of the site.
A Tale in the Desert reboots into Tale 7 on September 11th
We've known for a little while that A Tale in the Desert's next "telling" was on its way, but now we have firmer details...
WildStar starts testing free-to-play patch
WildStar's free-to-play transition is just around the corner, as testing commenced today on the fall patch. The public test realm update includes the new...
Hyperspace Beacon: Ten SWTOR sites worth visiting
As regular readers surely know, I really enjoy the Star Wars: The Old Republic community. And I don't mean the community team led by...
ArcheAge mobile game will use Unreal Engine 4
Remember ArcheVille? No, probably not; it was an ArcheAge mobile game that was shut down rather quickly back in 2013. The important thing is...
EverQuest II plans server ‘consolidation’ in August
It's all well and good to prefer lower-population servers, but you can also reach a point when the population is so low that you can...
An exclusive talk with RIFT’s Chris Junior on the Nightmare Saga and more
RIFT is starting to make more noise as 2015 marches on, particularly with its recent Patch 3.3. This newest update added a major saga...
The Stream Team: A look at Marvel Heroes’ Ant-Man (and a giveaway)
Have you wanted to try out Marvel Heroes'Â Ant-Man? MassivelyOP's MJ has, and now that she finally has a couple of heroes at level 60,...
LOTRO announces its 10 surviving servers
Lord of the Rings Online has begun the process of closing down some of its servers and encouraging players to migrate to one of...
EverQuest Next challenges players to design buildings for Halas
One of the cooler parts of the EverQuest Next development process is that it's not happening behind closed doors; players have already had the...
League of Legends does not in fact kill off Gangplank for real at all
Just a few days ago, dear reader, we wrote to you about how League of Legends had done something novel by killing off the...
RIFT community manager: ‘RIFT is in zero danger’
The health of a game is always important to the players; no one wants to make a home that's going to be shut down...
The MOP Up: Evil Island edition
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...
One Shots: Abstract art
Every once in a while I receive a One Shots email that makes one of my eyebrows climb super-high while the other one dives...
