‘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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Destiny 2 doubles level XP following last week’s botched event
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...
The Daily Grind: Did you take advantage of any Black Friday sales in MMOs this weekend?
I did a ton of shopping - all online, mind you, as I'm not so far gone as to actually put on pants or...
The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 2017)
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: The rat race
At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...
Destiny 2 deactivates scaling system after players discover XP throttling
Internet speeds aren't the only things that are in danger of being throttled, as Destiny 2 players learned this past week. Apparently Bungie was...
MassivelyOP’s 2017 PC hardware gift guide
Since you're reading this, there's a good chance that you own a PC that you at least occasionally use for gaming, and there's an...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017
Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
Perfect Ten: MMO things to be thankful about this year
It's kind of hard to be thankful this year. Sure, some good things have happened this year, but we also have some things that,...
Black Desert introduces Thanksgiving boss event and halves its B2P fee
Kakao announced today both Thanksgiving celebrations and sales for Black Desert. In fact, it's a good time to be jumping into BDO as a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master
Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
Watch Destiny 2’s Curse of Osiris dev stream here at 2 p.m. EST
Some MMO studios waste entire Fridays streaming about their upcoming patches, but not Bungie: Bungie's wasting two whole days on Destiny 2's Curse of...
Jukebox Heroes: Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire’s soundtrack
I feel comfortable in saying that I hold the Guild Wars franchise's soundtrack in high regard. There's excellent music across the board from a...
Check out Guild Wars 2’s ‘Daybreak’ living story season 4 trailer
If you were excited about last week's Guild Wars 2 living story season 4 announcement but found the recap trailer wanting, welp, you're going...
Saga of Lucimia says it’s turned down two publishers to avoid going free-to-play
It's a good time to pile on predatory cash-shop models, especially if you've got a better one, and in-development hardcore MMORPG sandbox Saga of Lucimia...
Fortnite plans to flesh out its PvE mode in December and January
I'm gonna be honest: When I saw the subheader "The future of Save the World" in the latest Fortnite dev blog, I expected what...
MMO Mechanics: What can be learned from Guild Wars 2 Mountgate?
Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...
For Science! Researchers find link between fluid intelligence and elite MOBA play
In a new paper released last week, University of York researchers sought to examine whether research that strategy gaming (like chess and arcade games)...
PSA: Elder Scrolls Online gives away a free bug mount to all Morrowind owners
If you don't mind saddling up on something that is straight out of an entomophobic's worst nightmare, then boy is Elder Scrolls Online going...
Global Chat: Why you need to be playing Warframe
You know what's one MMO that seems to be capturing the interest of a lot of gamers these days? Warframe. It seems to be...
One Shots: Gassy and bloated
I do think that we, as a culture, have become disturbingly obsessed with selfies, but I will always make an exception for anyone who...