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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.

Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event returns next week

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His jokes always slay the audience: Yes, Mad King Thorn returns to Guild Wars 2 this year as the Shadow of the Mad King...
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Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire DLC launches October 22, but you can start questing early and get it for free through dailies

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October 22nd: That's when Murkmire will finally launch for The Elder Scrolls Online, at least for PC players. Consolers will be waiting another two...
If you keep up login issues long enough, you don't have congestion problems any longer.

Tamriel for Tatas: Elder Scrolls Online players host two-day charity stream to fight breast cancer

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Let's be honest: This post is getting written separately because the title of the stream is just too amazing to pass up, but it's...

One Shots: Mercury sunrise

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"Like many, when Destiny 2 launched late last year, I played it for a few weeks, then put it away," said Rees Racer. "I...

The Stream Team: Busting butt to get Guild Wars 2’s bunny mount

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Apparently Massively OP's MJ had a lot more work ahead of her to obtain her Guild Wars 2 bunny mount than she thought. That...

Global Chat: Does Guild Wars 2’s newest episode reach for the stars?

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Guild Wars 2's newest living world episode seems to be grabbing the MMO community's attention in a way that the season so far hasn't....

It’s Perfect World International’s birthday! Grab a 10th anny gift pack courtesy of PWE

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In celebration of Perfect World International's 10th birthday, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a stack of keys for an anniversary bundle, including a...

Elder Scrolls Online is sending you to Blackrose Prison in the upcoming Murkmire DLC

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You're going to jail! OK, you're going to prison, but you're not exactly a prisoner; you're actually on a rescue mission. Such is the...
If you look to your left, you will see a sad person.

Massively OP Podcast episode 189: Time traveling to 2004

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, WildStar, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Maplestory 2, Age of Conan, Fallout 76, Guild Wars 2, Star Wars Galaxies, and Trove, with mailbag questions on SWTOR, starting as a true newbie in WoW, and power imbalances in MMOs.
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Guild Wars 2 tweaks class balance, adds buyable stools and resource contracts

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Guild Wars 2's promised mini-balance-patch has arrived on schedule, and it... sure is a pile of class tweaks. Even Reddit doesn't know quite what...

Ubisoft previews The Division 2’s overhauled weapons systems

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In all the buzz around Destiny 2 and Anthem, you'd be forgiven for having forgotten that The Division 2 is still on the way,...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s A Star to Guide Us, part one

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Season 4 of Guild Wars 2 Living World has been a solid addition to the episodic narrative that drives the game's content development in between...
Well, that sounds fun.

Anthem will have matchmaking for raids but no loot trading

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It's hard not to compare Anthem to Destiny 2 just by the nature of what both games are trying to be. More to the...
Goes boom and stuff.

The Daily Grind: What MMO still needs legacy servers?

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2018 has seemed like the year of the legacy/vanilla MMO server, thanks to not just World of Warcraft but RIFT and Age of Conan...

Torchlight Frontiers gets inspired by Guild Wars 2 for horizontal progression

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If there is one thing that your average MMORPG player is familiar with, it is vertical progression. This comes from characters on a track...

The Daily Grind: What abandoned content in your favortite MMO do you want to see return?

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I miss Guild Wars 2's dungeons. I was trawling Reddit the other day when I saw someone raise a half-hearted complaint about the fact that...

One Shots: Concept art showcase

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In last week's edition of One Shots, I issued perhaps my most peculiar challenge yet. I asked readers (for once) not to submit any...
ExPLOsions! Overpowerin'

Activision knows the power of cross-play, but it will need some time to implement it

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Blizzard is very familiar with the advantages of cross-platform play, because Hearthstone exists and does quite well for it with exactly that. But there...
Dead in the water.

Vague Patch Notes: World of Warcraft, math, and making choices ‘interesting’ in MMOs

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So if you somehow managed to miss it, let me recap: World of Warcraft's community manager Lore recently gave some feedback on the many complaints...

Guild Wars 2 plans balance patch, addresses lockbox regulation as armor crafting woes continue

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We've got a bunch of scattered Guild Wars 2 news to cap off the week! First up: the balance patch. Unfortunately, in typical recent...

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