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‘Buy-to-play’ is a term that refers to games that have box or download fees associated with them but do not incur a mandatory subscription. Some have optional subscriptions and are more properly referred to as hybrid B2P. Most have cash shops and microtransactions.

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Watch Elder Scrolls Online’s global reveal of The Dark Heart of Skyrim and 2020 content plans

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UpdateThe keynote is over now - check out our full recap right here! Today's the big day for The Elder Scrolls Online, as ZeniMax Online...
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Vague Patch Notes: Guild Wars 2 might be the MMO that defined the last decade

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It's been about a week or so since we did our Overthinking on the best MMO of the decade, and I ultimately rattled off...

Destiny 2 introduces a tantalizing new mystery in the Corridors of Time

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It would appear that there's something afoot within Destiny 2 and its Corridors of Time location. A new quest that was stealthily introduced this...

Guild Wars 2 previews Shadows in the Ice’s best features in new trailer

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Here we go, folks - with the Lunar New Year festival underway in Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet is now turning its promotional attention back...

The Stream Team: Exploring Elder Scrolls Online’s The Banished Cells

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During last weekend's Elder Scrolls Online event, Massively OP's MJ experienced her first major dungeon with her healer. Hwoever, the team ran through it...

Crowfall’s UI is getting less survival-y and more MMO-y with February’s test patch

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Call me weird, but user interfaces in games are among my favorite things to dig into, and Crowfall's has been of particular interest to...
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Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

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This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...

Datamining offers tantalizing clue about Guild Wars 2 controller support

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Ever wished you could play Guild Wars 2 from the comfort of your couch with the simplicity of a controller? That dream may one...

Guild Wars 2’s Lunar New Year festival is live with a new cape and player-designed guild emblems

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The Lunar New Year is just a week and a half away, which means a bunch of MMOs are about to start in on...

Elite Dangerous’ first large scale bug fixing update goes live

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Most of the time, folks like to see big ticket pieces of content or new shiny things in their updates, but we suspect that...

Elder Scrolls Online is promising viewership shenanigans for Dark Heart of Skyrim reveal event

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Still curious about what precisely "Dark Heart of Skyrim" will mean for The Elder Scrolls Online? We're still set for the big reveal this...

One Shots: Worse homes and gardens

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Probably the only thing that is holding me back from embracing a career as a lifelong mega-villain is that I can't conform to the...

The Daily Grind: Capes or backpacks in MMOs?

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2019 was a huge, huge year for MMORPGs. I'm mainly talking about how both Dungeons and Dragons Online and Guild Wars 2 got capes...

Destiny 2’s launching a charity campaign to help victims of the Australian brushfires

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Bungie is joining CCP Games on the short list (so far) of games studios using their titles to help with the Australian brushfire crisis....
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Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade

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A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...
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The Elder Scrolls Online has finally started the Undaunted event

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All right. Are we ready? Are we finally ready for this event? The Elder Scrolls Online has been trying to get the Undaunted event rolling properly...

Cryptic’s Magic: Legends is an isometric RPG and not an MMORPG because of earth elemental butt

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Yesterday, we got our first look at the gameplay in Cryptic's upcoming Magic: Legends MMO, and, well, it didn't go over that well. In...

Chronicles of Elyria is still working on the botched Settlers of Elyria event – and future events too

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Chronicles of Elyria has returned after winter holidays with a new newsletter for backers. As usual, the newsletter is pretty fluffy (I mean, there's...
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Tamriel Infinium: My favorite things in The Elder Scrolls Online

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If you’ve been following the Tamriel Infinium column at least since my own arrival at Massively OP, you may have noticed my propensity for...

Guild Wars 2 launches its PvP League Season 20 and announces dates for the Lunar New Year

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Short and sweet Guild Wars 2 news, this one. ArenaNet has officially kicked off its 20th season of the PvP League, which runs between...

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