‘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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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best April Fools’ Day prank this year? (2018)
April Fools' Day this year has been pretty weird, given that MMO studios started rolling out their pranks and events in the middle of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO NPC do you love to mock?
Hell hath no sarcasm like MMO gamers who find a particular NPC to be a little too annoying, repetitive, or otherwise goofy. Then the...
The Stream Team: Jumping into Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box for the first time
Massively OP's MJ has never experienced Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box. Oh she's heard plenty about it over the years, she has just...
SuperData’s February 2018 revenue summary shows Fortnite’s dominance
Fortnite isn't just a hit for Epic: It's a hit for the whole industry. That's according to SuperData's latest report, which ranks PC, console,...
Massively Overthinking: How much money spent makes you an MMO whale?
Several conversations I saw after our report on the new RMT mounts in Guild Wars 2 got me thinking about how the MMO community...
The Super Adventure Box Festival (and chairs) has taken over Guild Wars 2
Were you under the impression that Guild Wars 2 was only heralding the return of the wonderful, magnificent Super Adventure Box? Nay, my friends,...
Tamriel Infinium: Where did the Elder Scroll Online Summerset come from?
Even though I don't believe that Summerset was the best choice for the next expansion for the Elder Scrolls Online, that doesn't mean that...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
GDC 2018: Yokozuna, big game data, and the future of MMO monetization
GDC isn't E3. It isn't PAX. It's not even what I think stereotypical gamers can appreciate. But I think the Massively OP crowd is...
The Elder Scrolls Online is including daily login rewards with the Summerset release
If you were sitting with rapt attention when The Elder Scrolls Online announced its next expansion, you probably caught a pretty thorough list of...
Guild Wars 2 honors dearly departed MMO blogger Zach ‘Ravious’ Best with in-game quest
Last October, we were devastated to report that MMO blogger Zach "Ravious" Best had passed away at the young age of 36, taken by...
Battle Bards Episode 118: More starting zone themes
What are your favorite memories of those first few days in a brand-new MMORPG? Chances are that those memories are inextricably connected to the...
Tree of Savior hands out second anniversary gifts, previews new classes
It's been two years since Tree of Savior leaped onto the Steam scene, and the crew is celebrating with a nine-week event that is...
The MMO Book Club introduces the good kind of lootboxes
Not quite a year ago, we covered a brand-new MMO community called the MMO Book Club, whose goal was to bring MMO players together...
Guild Wars 2 takes action against PvP match manipulation
Even if you're a winner you could be still be a loser in Guild Wars 2 -- if you cheat. ArenaNet announced that it...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 163: Expansions ‘Я’ Us
Justin and Bree talk expansions for Elder Scrolls Online, Star Trek Online, and Skyforge, with news on Bless, GDC, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, a new Star Wars title, Project Gorgon, RIFT, WoW, and Trove, with mailbag questions on whether Gorgon vs EverQuest and our Steam Team.
Guild Wars 2 preps Super Adventure Box, patches in direct-buy mounts and CHAIRS
If you try to zoom into Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box today, you're... going to be wholly disappointed. That's because while the patch...
Elder Scrolls Online’s April Fools’ Day event begins Thursday, involves pie
Fair warning: It's almost April Fools' Day, which means lots of game studios are going to start pranks and silly-themed events, and they're going...
Elite: Dangerous goes soft on crime (and that’s a good thing)
Elite: Dangerous made a wonderful and awe-inspiring discovery yesterday in a remote star system: Update 3.0.4 was found floating in orbit around a dead...
SWTOR course corrects for patch 5.8a, overhauls the cash shop with direct-purchase items
Star Wars The Old Republic's 5.8a patch is live today with a bunch of tweaks to last week's far bigger update. In fact, many...
