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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 announces weapon contest winners, adds new in-game book interface

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Remember that design-a-weapon contest that Guild Wars 2 was running last month? Well, it is all over now, and ArenaNet tallied up all of...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever fallen for an in-game MMO prank?

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Stop me if you've heard this one: If you fly to the remote Hutton orbital space station in Elite Dangerous, there's a free Anaconda in...

The MOP Up: Pocket PUBG (December 3, 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...

Elder Scrolls Legends joins the fun in Clockwork City

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Just like any younger brother who is taken with an older sibling, Elder Scrolls Legends is copying Elder Scrolls Online in an adorable attempt...

The Soapbox: Evaluating gaming monetization through the lens of Nintendo’s mobile history

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Bloggers and journalists throughout the online gaming industry have been talking about monetization a lot lately. It's not just lockbox/gachapon scandals, or their relationship...

Leaderboard: Is Destiny 2’s marketing brilliant or just plain nuts?

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So this morning I'm dishing out cheese crackers for my kid, who was up all night barfing. (If my posts have typos today, it's...

Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre

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Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...
You could have tried harder. Or... at all.

Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends and the mystery of the level-based curse

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Would you believe that I sort of forgot about levels altogether in Secret World Legends? It's true! I remembered that they were a thing...

Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance

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Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies. That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...
No, it's still not.

Destiny 2 acknowledges ‘betrayal’ over XP adjustments and studio silence

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While stopping short of an actual apology in this week's Destiny 2 state of the game post, Bungie acknowledged that players have been greatly...

Elder Scrolls Online is kicking off a free-play event on PC, PS4, and Mac starting tomorrow

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Earlier this week, ZeniMax announced a new dungeon event for The Elder Scrolls Online with pretty nifty cash-shop related giveaways for everyone who queues...

Another year passes and Jeremy Soule’s Kickstarter album is still unreleased

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How about this for a new November tradition at Massively OP: Let's get together at this time every year to see if video game...

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017

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One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...

Guild Wars 2 defends new mount price, Zadorojny stays on as Game Director, S4 plans brisk cadence

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There's a bit of a kerfuffle over Guild Wars 2's new mount, which is a gorgeous peacock reskin of the raptor. ArenaNet has put...
feelin' fine!

Destiny 2 stream is canceled in the wake of player rage as a free trial surfaces

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So, let's recap the Destiny 2 saga. First, there was a leveling scaling problem wherein players discovered that the game was now slowing leveling...
I'm here to talk with you about patch cadence.

Guild Wars 2’s fourth living story season has officially landed

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Guild Wars 2's first living story episode since the apparently tepid launch of Path of Fire has officially launched this afternoon. Dubbed Daybreak, a...

Elder Scrolls Online kicks off LFG dungeon event with huge cash-shop prizes this week

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The Elder Scrolls Online's #10MillionStories promotion keeps rolling along, and this week, ZeniMax is adding another incentive to getting players in on the fun....

Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire story ahead of season 4

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The launch of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 4 will be upon us today, so it's all the more pressing that I wrap up...
Maybe here? Who knows.

Guild Wars 2 teases the next Fractal arriving with season 4

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There's another Fractal arriving with the next portion of Guild Wars 2's Living Story tomorrow, but where will it take you? What will it...

Destiny 2 doubles level XP following last week’s botched event

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Remember how Bungie bungled Destiny 2's XP scaling event and had to disable the whole thing after players found that the game was throttling...

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