‘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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Colin Johanson says farewell to the Guild Wars 2 community
Last week's big surprise on Friday was the departure of longtime Guild Wars 2 game director Colin Johanson from ArenaNet. Rumors and surprise swirled...
The Secret World’s Issue 14 will be in Egypt, releases in March
Today's Streaming Ones dev livestream announced that The Secret World's Issue #14 will take place in the familiar sands of Egypt -- and that...
Elite: Dangerous launches Oculus Rift VR support on March 28
Remember back in January when Eurogamer reported that Elite: Dangerous was dropping its long-planned support for the Oculus Rift in favor of SteamVR even...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Thieves Guild DLC is that ex you keep coming back to
Dang it, Elder Scrolls Online, just when I’m about to give up on you again, you pull me back in.
I really didn’t mind your...
Black Desert impressions from around the MMO blogosphere
When a new game comes out, you can play it cautious by waiting for reviews or you can roll the dice and take your...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 54: Something fishy is afoot
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, No Man's Sky, World of Fishing, and AdventureQuest 3D, with a mailbag question on broken dev promises.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Slothasor and the Guild Wars 2 AMA breakdown
It's been a bit of a whirlwind week for ArenaNet, especially with a jam-packed Reddit AMA that contained the announcement that Colin Johanson has...
Join the Thieves Guild today in The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest DLC
The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC is live today on the production servers. Those with active ESO Plus memberships will be able to...
Guild Wars 2 is not going back to biweekly updates: ‘When we’re shipping every two weeks, we just have to ship’
There's no way that the Guild Wars 2 AMA on Reddit could possibly top the big bombshell about Colin Johanson's departure that started the...
The MOP Up: Blade & Soul brings in the Warlock (March 6, 2016)
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: Hook, line, and sinker
Personally, I don't get the appeal of fishing in MMOs, mostly because I get super-fidgety if I have to stand still in-game for long...
Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties
In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...
Guild Wars 2’s Colin Johanson leaves ArenaNet; Mike O’Brien takes over as game director
Game director Colin Johanson has been with ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2 for quite some time now, but nothing lasts forever. New game director...
This guy won a million bucks from Elder Scrolls Online
ZeniMax has announced the winner of its Elder Scrolls Online Million Reasons to Play giveaway, and it's still not you.
In fact, it's a 30-year-old...
Firor says Elder Scrolls Online’s success ‘has gone a bit under the radar’
If you are hankering to see Elder Scrolls Online's Director Matt Firor squirm uncomfortably with the game being labeled as an "MMO," then have...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best healing experience?
In light of the epic reveal of Revival's graphic healing system this week, I thought Massively OP reader Fenryr Grey's recent question to our...
Guild Wars 2 previews final Spirit Vale raid boss
"Sometimes when people who don’t play video games ask me what I do for a living, I just tell them I come up with...
Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes
Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...
Elite: Dangerous delays full Horizons, Engineers launch ‘to push the quality up’
Financial documents released by Frontier yesterday were scooped up by eagle-eyed Redditors because they frame a revenue shift against a delay in the full and final release...
ESPN muses on e-sports in Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, WoW
ESPN has a big piece out this week on e-sports in MMOs, chronicling the many (failed) attempts of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft to...
