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F2PMMO's own stories about free-to-play MMOs, plus the latest posts from game pages and community servers: updates, patch notes, events and announcements, straight from the people who run them. Every post says where it comes from.
Fragments of Chaos · Game
Hi everyone. We're the team behind Fragments of Chaos, and this is our proper hello. We're making a game in a genre we love and rarely see in the spotlight anymore: the old-school, action RPG, where the world is dangerous, other players are unpredictable, and what you carry is r…
F2PMMO · News
Fish all afternoon, clear a dungeon, or paralyze a stranger and run off with their loot. In Fragments of Chaos, it's your call.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
Andrew Gower left Jagex in 2010, built his own engine, and spent eight years on a new MMO. How they made it.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
Publishers passed, a third of the studio was gone, and Digital Extremes bet everything on a free sci-fi game. How they made it.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
Pick a tool, shrink the idea, and ship something a stranger can play by day 30. Engines compared.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
Counter-Strike, DotA and DayZ all began as mods. Here's how to learn on someone else's game, the right way.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
On F2PMMO, fairness is a quarter of a game's score. Here's what players reward, and how the best MMOs let free players earn their way.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
Store cuts, creator payouts, grants, funds and publishers, with the real numbers as of September 30, 2026.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
Systems, levels, quests, economies and live events. What each design job really is, and the first thing to make for it.
F2PMMO · Game Dev
Finish small things, show your work, and walk through the doors people actually use.
F2PMMO · Data story
Last summer, Digital Extremes promised a new chapter and a trip to Tau. We checked what arrived, and what it did to the player count.
F2PMMO · Data story
It launched to more than 83,000 players on Steam. A year on, we looked at where the anime MMORPG stands, and at what the numbers can't see.
F2PMMO · Opinion
Fans are hungry for new MMOs, yet some of the worlds they keep playing are older than their players. A look at the veterans on our list, and what they share.
F2PMMO · Guide
No guild, no group, no problem. Six free-to-play MMOs that let you walk your own road, and how to help us rank them.
F2PMMO · Guide
Seven companies make 16 of the 27 games on our Best F2P MMOs list. Here's who they are, and the studios holding their own with a single world.
F2PMMO · Industry
A big-budget F2P MMORPG goes global on Monday. Here's what to know, and how the newest free worlds are holding up.
F2PMMO · Guide
Every MMO on our list is free to download. What it costs to enjoy is another question, and we're asking you to answer it.
