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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.

The Stream Team: Friday the 13th frolicking in The Secret World

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When you play in The Secret World's filth too long, you're bound to get some on you! But that doesn't matter to MassivelyOP's MJ; she's...
Well, crap.

NCsoft Q1 2016: Blade & Soul is booming, WildStar is tumbling

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There are good pieces of news from NCsoft's first quarter financial report. For one thing, the company's year-on-year sales, profits, and net income are...

Chaos Theory: Making your (cosmetic) mark in The Secret World

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When talking about The Secret World, one topic that can't help but come up is the contemporary setting. As far as MMOs go, TSW...

Global Chat: Which MMOs have the best quests?

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For some players, quests are either those things that serve to annoy with reading (in a game!) or merely provide gussied-up reward packages. But...

Examining the skills and missions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC

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So let's say you're planning on joining the Dark Brotherhood once The Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC launches. How, exactly, do you plan on...

Surprise! The Secret World launches Issue #15

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Eureka, I've got it! That's what The Secret World fans are saying about Issue #15 now that the servers are back up. If this...

How Guild Wars 2 will improve WvW scoring

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The Guild Wars 2 community has been asking for improvements to scoring in the game's world-vs-world battles, and ArenaNet is moving swiftly to bring...
To return where others have gone before, but not like this.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 64: To boldly return

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Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online, Chronicles of Elyria, Marvel Heroes, WildStar, TERA, and LOTRO, plus a mailbag question on metacritic for MMOs.
This really worked out all right for us.

How Elder Scrolls Online converts veteran ranks to champion points

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ZeniMax has just posted a deep-dive into the veteran rank system obliteration coming with The Elder Scrolls Online's Dark Brotherhood DLC. "The goal for...
happy birthday to me

The Daily Grind: What do you think about NPC party members in MMORPGs?

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I've been thinking a lot about classic Guild Wars lately -- the anniversary always does this to me. And one of my favorite parts...

The MOP Up: Setting a VR world record (May 8, 2016)

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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: Slipping between shadows

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I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...

The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live

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The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...

Elite: Dangerous launches Engineers update beta

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Elite: Dangerous' 1.6 and Engineers 2.1 update have finally arrived... in beta, that is. Frontier Head of Community Zac Antonaci posted the patch notes to...

The Stream Team: Lost in The Secret World’s labyrinth

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Although MassivelyOP's MJ thought for sure she could finish The Secret World's Issue #14 last week, when she finally got through the maze of the...

The Secret World works on revamping elite skills

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Hope you're not too attached to your elite skills in The Secret World, because change is coming. Big change. Sweeping, epic reform that in...
It's been quiet.

Elite: Dangerous is pushing the Engineers beta out on May 5th

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Eagerly awaiting the next update to Elite: Dangerous? It's been pushed back a fair bit, but it has been confirmed that the next update...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Weighing in on the Guild Wars 2 WvW poll

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The first WvW poll is about to close and the votes have been flying in during the last few days, driving home that Guild Wars...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry

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Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
It's the ride.

Funcom launches The Park on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

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In the mood for a bit of horror in May? If you passed on The Park (the single-player narrative spin-off from The Secret World)...

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