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.

Guns and ships.

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018

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One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
Throw wide the gates to let us pass once more.

Food and video games, two great tastes together at last!

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If you thought that the World of Warcraft official cookbook was a stupid idea, then you may not be the target audience for the...

Asheron’s Call exiles take root in Project Gorgon

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It has already been a year since one of the oldest graphical MMOs, Asheron's Call, was shut down unceremoniously following Turbine's decision to jettison...
Some day, I will be good about screenshots. That day is not today.

Choose My Adventure Year in Review: DC Universe Online, Shroud of the Avatar, Guild Wars 2, and Secret World Legends

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As our review of the past year of Choose My Adventure rolls onward (a bit longer than originally planned), we enter what I think...
Tell me you DO something.

Take a peek at Elder Scrolls Online’s Dragon Bones DLC and outfit customization system, coming in February

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Just before Christmas, ZeniMax teased a ton of new content coming for The Elder Scrolls Online in 2018, including three DLC and a full...
feelin' fine!

Dataminer suggests massive Destiny 2 playerbase slump

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If player dataminers are right, Destiny 2 is in trouble, and I'm not talking about the ongoing Eververse rioting. Destiny 2 player and Redditor stevetheimpact...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2017

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Last year was positively stuffed with updates, expansions, and cool stuff. A lot of years I struggle to remember which major updates happened in...

The Daily Grind: Would you be interested in a retro-styled MMORPG?

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As it's been about a year now, I know that pretty much nobody remembers John Smedley's ill-fated Hero's Song. For a while there, we...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 151: New year staff roundtable

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Justin, Bree, Eliot, MJ, Larry, Brendan, Tina, and Andrew sit for a roundtable on the MMOs we played in 2017, our 2018 resolutions, and the site's 2017 awards, with mailbag questions on MMO food, PvP, investigation content, business models worse than lockboxes, and the state of the site.

The best Massively OP MMO reader polls of 2017

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Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles - at least when they aren't being brigaded...

Steam’s best-selling 2017 games include ARK, Warframe, and H1Z1

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With 2017 officially over and done, Steam's taking a moment to report on its best-selling games over the course of the whole year. While...

MMO Year in Review: WoW Classic and the doom of Marvel Heroes (November 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...

The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2017

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Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2017, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...
Destiny 2 Screenshot 2017.11.06 - 17.28.49.58.jpg

MMO Year in Review: Lockboxes, CCP, and Destiny 2 (October 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...

Battle Bards Episode 112: MMO minigame music

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It’s time to take a diversion to play — and listen — to the minigames tucked inside of our MMOs! The Battle Bards haul...
The world is broken.

Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2017: The fresh aroma of gamer

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We're continuing our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2017! Coming in at #4 on our list is... Destiny 2's Pop-Tarts and energy drink...

One Shots: Riding the unicorn charge into 2018

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That's it, folks. It's time to put the wraps on the bumpy, odd year that was 2017 and get ready to flip our calendars...

MMO Year in Review: Expansion 2 for Guild Wars 2 (September 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
Great.

MMO Year in Review: Johnny Depp + Secret World = profit? (August 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
Here in my car, etc.

The Crew 2 opens up beta signups

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If you are deeply and personally invested in The Crew 2, it must have been sad news for you when the game got delayed....

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