buy to play

‘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.

Still not really a thing for most of the world, though.

Blizzard throws a holiday sale for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo III, and more

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Have a few extra bucks that Santa and his corporate elves haven't pried from your wallet this month? Blizzard would like to tempt you...

The MMOs of the Steam winter 2017 sale

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Another December, another Steam sale to entice you to spend money on games you don't have time to play just to have them for...
I don't choose spiders.

Choose My Adventure Year in Review: Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, WildStar, Black Desert, and Neverwinter

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So I've been writing this column for a year now. A little more than a year, as it happens, but last year there was...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2018

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Let's talk about value. A couple of weeks back, I did an article on the healthiest games at the end of the year; today,...
Cool.

Elder Scrolls Online’s Matt Firor says ZeniMax has least ‘two years’ of additional content planned

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With over 10 million players (2.5M monthly active users) having come through its doors since 2014, Elder Scrolls Online is one of the stronger success...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO had the best 2017 overall?

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This is it, people. We are counting down to the final days and hours of 2017, and I know that there is usually this...

The Stream Team: Jump for joy, it’s Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday!

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If Guild Wars 2 were to implement an easy version of the Wintersday jumping puzzle, would Massively OP's MJ try it? Yes, yes she...

Jukebox Heroes: The 2017 Online Video Game Music Awards

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Oh, I can hear all of you out there, mewing with frustration that Massively OP hasn't yet announced the truly important awards yet this...
magic

Sea of Thieves is getting a comic book treatment

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Every pirate needs some good reading material for those long ocean voyages, assuming that they can read. And now, for the literate and illiterate...

The Daily Grind: What was your favorite NPC added to an MMO in 2017?

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In 2016, we asked readers to propose new informal awards to go along with the eleventy-billion formal awards we already do. One of my...

The Stream Team: Happy launch day Wild Terra!

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It's a great day when a game launches! And today's that day for Wild Terra. That means Massively OP's MJ gets to go in...
Remember when this was what we were taking about?

BioWare’s Anthem may have a virtual reality mode

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BioWare has been unusually quiet about its upcoming Destiny 2 killer, Anthem, since the title's initial announcement this past summer. And while nothing official...

Wild Terra officially launches out of early access today

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It's a big day for Wild Terra, as the indie isometric sandbox we've been watching for years is officially launching today on Steam. No...
Oh well.

Destiny 2 players find that equipment promising more loot provides no real change

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Saying that something "provides more loot" is a rather vague statement, but there are items in Destiny 2 that are entirely based around the...

The MOP Up: Wakfu climbs the Mineral Tower (December 17, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

One Shots: Thumbs up for justice

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Even when humanity is on the brink of destruction, even when all hope is lost, it's good to know that people will still be...

Guild Wars 2 shares how it built its Hall of Chains raid

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If you've ever thought that creating MMO raids is easy, it would be educational to sit down with a developer and get a tall,...

The Stream Team: Swimming in ARK’s indoor pool

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Massively OP's MJ and the crew stormed the castle last time and found a deep pool of water at the bottom. What lies beneath...

Destiny 2 takes pity on non-Curse of Osiris owners, challenges players to snowball fights

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Those who have elected not to pick up Destiny 2's first DLC might have felt like they were being shut out of more progression...

Global Chat: Something fishy in these MMOs

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Fishing in MMOs: You either really get it or you really don't. Ancient Gaming Noob Wilhelm is among those who enjoys taking every opportunity...

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