‘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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Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2017
Last year was positively stuffed with updates, expansions, and cool stuff. A lot of years I struggle to remember which major updates happened in...
The Daily Grind: Would you be interested in a retro-styled MMORPG?
As it's been about a year now, I know that pretty much nobody remembers John Smedley's ill-fated Hero's Song. For a while there, we...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 151: New year staff roundtable
Justin, Bree, Eliot, MJ, Larry, Brendan, Tina, and Andrew sit for a roundtable on the MMOs we played in 2017, our 2018 resolutions, and the site's 2017 awards, with mailbag questions on MMO food, PvP, investigation content, business models worse than lockboxes, and the state of the site.
The best Massively OP MMO reader polls of 2017
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles - at least when they aren't being brigaded...
Steam’s best-selling 2017 games include ARK, Warframe, and H1Z1
With 2017 officially over and done, Steam's taking a moment to report on its best-selling games over the course of the whole year. While...
MMO Year in Review: WoW Classic and the doom of Marvel Heroes (November 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2017
Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2017, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...
MMO Year in Review: Lockboxes, CCP, and Destiny 2 (October 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
Battle Bards Episode 112: MMO minigame music
It’s time to take a diversion to play — and listen — to the minigames tucked inside of our MMOs! The Battle Bards haul...
Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2017: The fresh aroma of gamer
We're continuing our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2017!
Coming in at #4 on our list is...
Destiny 2's Pop-Tarts and energy drink...
One Shots: Riding the unicorn charge into 2018
That's it, folks. It's time to put the wraps on the bumpy, odd year that was 2017 and get ready to flip our calendars...
MMO Year in Review: Expansion 2 for Guild Wars 2 (September 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
MMO Year in Review: Johnny Depp + Secret World = profit? (August 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
The Crew 2 opens up beta signups
If you are deeply and personally invested in The Crew 2, it must have been sad news for you when the game got delayed....
Diablo III brings back the Darkening of Tristram for an anniversary reprise
Did you miss out on Diablo III's reenactment of the original Diablo a while back? You're in luck, then, because Blizzard is preparing the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMO to play at the end of 2017?
We talk about money a lot here on Massively OP. Business models. Stupidly expensive things we've bought. Annoying cash shops. Even things we'd like...
MMO Year in Review: July was the high mark of the year for MMORPGs (July 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
Destiny 2 leaks out the second DLC, Gods of Mars, via the PlayStation store
It's long been known that the next Destiny 2 DLC will be out next year, with most players figuring on early in the year,...
Destiny’s forbidden Music of the Spheres album is leaked
One of the oddest sagas in video game soundtrack history continues this month. Destiny fans might recall that there was a major companion album...
MMO Year in Review: Morrowind, Stormblood, and Secret World Legends (June 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
