‘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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Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
PlanetSide 2’s latest update revamps warzone rotation and the friends list
PlanetSide 2 has been in a state of limbo for the past several months following revelations that Daybreak had sold the IP for cash...
Vague Patch Notes: There is no one-and-done with MMOs
Last week's Vague Patch Notes column focused on the struggle of adding new things to MMORPGs forever and ever. I think it was a...
EG7 Q1 2024: Daybreak still mum on PlanetSide 2, new H1Z1 game hires lead designer
It's not even been two weeks since Daybreak owner EG7 published its 2023 annual financial report, which of course omitted everything relevant that happened...
Ubisoft cancels The Division Heartland in spite of record annual corporate revenues
There's a big blast of bad news for Ubisoft and everyone else coming out of the company's latest financial report: The company has outright...
Old School RuneScape continues Project Rebalance and Varlamore tweaks in this week’s patch
It's another patch full of adjustments for Old School RuneScape this week, as Jagex continues to work on its Project Rebalance updates for the...
PSA: Pirate101’s Through Death’s Door chapter will revert to paid DLC ‘within the next few months’
Last month saw Pirate101 finally get some substantial content with the launch of the Through Death's Door chapter. At the time of launch, Kingsisle...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs as fast food joints
Sometimes you go out to eat because you want something that's difficult to make on your own or just involves techniques you are unfamiliar...
Unleashed’s MMORPG Haven is aimed at parents who grew up playing EverQuest and WoW
Back in February, we covered an upcoming but low-key crossplatform MMORPG called Haven by an indie studio called Unleashed games, whose star-studded dev team...
Lord of the Rings Online goes underground with Update 40: Beneath the Surface
Who's ready to dive back underground in Lord of the Rings Online? Well, don't you all start whooping and hollering in agreement there. No...
The Daily Grind: Do you still have any launch day characters in your MMOs?
One of the reasons that I always like going back to Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's the only MMO that I...
Valheim’s F2P Ashlands biome patch has finally launched after a year and a half wait
Iron Gate has been talking about Valheim's Ashlands update since December. No, not last December. The December before that - 2022 December, when Mistlands...
RuneScape maps out Group Ironman, new bosses, new quests, and new seasonal events for the rest of 2024
Jagex has just completed its 2024 roadmap reveal livestream for RuneScape, and even though we're only just entering the middle part of the year,...
Star Trek Online announces Season 32 Unparalleled, starring Denise Crosby, for May 28
It's been a couple of months now, but if you can remember the Cryptic dev stream back in March, you'll recall that the studio...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for playing on a potato?
I saw a thread on the MMORPG subreddit a while back asking about MMOs that function well on low-end machines, and I was actually...
The Stream Team: Unlocking Warframe’s planetary nodes
As a Warframe player, Massively OP's MJ never went in order; she just wandered about doing things randomly. One thing she has skipped quite...
Mabinogi’s May patch smooths out dungeon difficulty and increases inventory stacks
All right class, who here remembers Mabinogi? You know, that Welsh-themed fantasy MMO that your one friend always raved about back in the day...
Lord of the Rings Online readies Update 40 and new supporter pack for this week
Cue your "it's happening" animated gifs because Update 40 is finally coming to Lord of the Rings Online this week after multiple rounds of...
One Shots: Where’s the seatbelt on this thing?
As flashy and fun as it might be to adventure in a galaxy far, far away, I don't think any of us would last...
Fallen Earth and APB Reloaded celebrate Little Orbit Week six years after their acquisition
Believe it or not, it's now been six years since Little Orbit acquired Gamers First, and along with it, APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth....
