‘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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LOTRO sweetens Legacy of Morgoth pre-orders with level boosts, defends lack of ‘special system’
Following both excitement and criticism over the announcement and pre-order packages this week for Lord of the Rings Online: Legacy of Morgoth, SSG Executive...
Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
EverQuest’s 31st expansion, The Outer Brood, launches in December
With EverQuest II's end-of-the-year expansion already in testing and ready for preorders, you had to figure that Classic EverQuest wouldn't be far behind, and...
PlanetSide 2’s Nanite of the Living Dead rises from its grave once again for Halloween this year
It's time for the Halloween season to once more cover the battlefields of PlanetSide 2, and regular players of the persistent war MMOFPS know...
Lord of the Rings Online’s update 41.3 tweaks Nazgul attacks, dragon dungeon, and crafting event
Lord of the Rings Online fans should know by now that there's not "one patch to rule them all," nor are all patches of...
LOTRO: Legacy of Morgoth opens expansion pre-orders, aims for November 6 launch
Lord of the Rings Online's southward expansion aims to continue into the deserts of Harad next month when Legacy of Morgoth releases. Standing Stone...
Four Winds: Throne & Liberty’s opening hours were fun AF, but I’m still on my guard
After what feels like an absolute eternity, Throne and Liberty is finally here. In my younger, less jaded years, I'd feel excited and elated...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions
Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...
EverQuest II opens preorders for its November Scars of Destruction expansion
If there's one constant in the MMORPG genre, it's the comforting knowledge that the EverQuest franchise is going to pump out two expansions in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 487: Give me Throne and Liberty
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's launch, the new book on Blizzard, ArcheAge 2's morph into ArcheAge Chronicles, and New World Aeternum's impending release, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO history and games preservation.
NCsoft’s MMORPG Throne & Liberty has officially arrived at its global F2P launch
All right folks, if you've been waiting for Lineage 3 aka Lineage Eternal aka Project TL for the last decade, your moment is finally...
The Stream Team: Warframe 1999 excitement is calling
In two weeks' time, Massively OP's MJ will get the chance to dive into the Warframe 1999 demo. The adventure is calling out to...
PlanetSide 2 introduces an honest-to-goodness fishing activity to its public test server
We are well past the month of April, so you know that PlanetSide 2 isn't telling a joke: Fishing is coming to the persistent...
Warframe’s Koumei and the Five Fates launches October 2, Warframe 1999 demo arrives October 16
The month of October is going to be bringing a whole lot to the playerbase of Warframe, as Digital Extremes' developer livestream from the...
Lineage II kicks off autumn events across all three of its versions
The season of falling leaves and cooling weather (ideally anyway) is being marked across all versions of Lineage II, with new seasonal fun to...
LOTRO previews Legacy of Morgoth’s Imhûlar while DDO tests its new 64-bit server
Dungeons and Dragons Online's new 64-bit server looks to be coming to the game sooner rather than later, if Standing Stone Games' testing schedule...
One Shots: Even monsters should brush their teeth
Imaginations being what they are, I've spent perhaps too much time thinking about what sentient monster lives are like when we're not beating the...
Aion Classic EU announces an official PvP tournament for October 19
Remember when one of the big ticket features for Aion was its two-faction PvP? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so does Gameforge apparently, as...
LOTRO Legendarium: Five ways to fully fix LOTRO’s virtue system
Newer players to Lord of the Rings Online may not be aware that the game's virtue system used to be very difficult, requiring certain...
The Stream Team: The pirates vs ninjas war comes to an end in AdventureQuest 3D
AQ3D's war between the pirates and the ninjas is over. And sadly, Massively OP's MJ's team was not the victor. RIP ninjas. And to...
