‘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 Secret World welcomes new community manager, should talk about relaunch plans soon
Ever since finding out in late February that Funcom has plans to relaunch The Secret World with a new business model and redesigned combat,...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #18-13
Last week we were off to a great start as we listened to the first batch of player-voted favorite MMO themes. As I said...
Diablo III finally brings seasons to consoles
Remember how Blizzard told us that it just wasn't going to implement its Diablo III season campaigns for the game's console versions? A year...
Fan creates Guild Wars 2 themed collectible card game
Ever been playing Guild Wars 2 and thought to yourself, wouldn't I rather be playing a card game? UK-based designer and developer Luke Dowding...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Morrowind’s Foyada Quarry (pro tip: lava is hot)
ZeniMax has this morning released a deep-dive of one of the trio of battlegrounds due to launch in The Elder Scrolls Online when Morrowind...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 109: We are all Dragonborn
Justin and Bree discuss our PAX awards, Guild Wars 2, Wizard101, WoW, LOTRO, DDO, The Repopulation, EverQuest, Eternal Crusade, and Pathfinder, with mailbag questions on Funcom's mystery game and Landmark-like sandboxes.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Creating a better balance in Guild Wars 2 raiding
One of the major concerns aired by the Guild Wars 2 playerbase regarding raid content is the risk of juicy raid-only story details being gated...
Elder Scrolls Online plans in-game jester-themed festival events for April Fools’ Day
It's time to be sorry you whined and moaned for holidays in The Elder Scrolls Online. Or not sorry. It depends on whether you...
The Stream Team: Hunting down an Elder Scrolls Online troublemaker
While trying to get all the races to work together to defend a town in Elder Scrolls Online, Massively OP's MJ kept hearing about...
Grim Dawn reveals Necromancer class for this year’s expansion
Guess who's getting a Necromancer class this year! If you said Diablo III, well, I can't tell you you're wrong because that's also happening....
Leaderboard: The Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind ‘chapter vs. DLC’ fee debate
In the comments of a Daily Grind last week, a few commenters tangented into debate about The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind pricing.
See, the original...
The Daily Grind: Do you roll multiple MMO characters of the same class?
I'm closing in on "done" -- my own peculiar version of done, anyway -- on my ninth character in Guild Wars 2. I've rolled...
The MOP Up: Kali awakens in Dragon Nest (March 19, 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 Candy Man
If you have a sweet tooth or diabetes, you may want to avoid the temptation that we're about to put in your path with...
The Daily Grind: Will World of Warcraft hold its 7.2 patch until June?
On October 24th, World of Warcraft launched patch 7.1, which contained a lot of not-quite-ready-for-launch Legion features and a bit of content. Since then,...
You’ll need to put in about 20 hours in Albion Online to become competitive in PvP
As Albion Online barrels toward a summer release, the crew took to Reddit yesterday for a marathon AMA session to tackle any pressing community...
Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote
We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
Elder Scrolls Online posts brief teaser vid of Morrowind’s Seyda Neen
Ah, Seyda Neen: The crappy town where the Empire dumps your convict butt off the boat on Vvardenfell!
If you're feeling nostalgic, take a peek...
The Elder Scrolls Online deep-dives Morrowind’s Ald Carac battleground
The launch of the Morrowind expansion will bring three separate battleground maps to The Elder Scrolls Online, and while all three feature the same...
Tamriel Infinium: Battlegrounds will change Elder Scrolls Online PvP forever
I've read all the impressions from the PAX East show that I could find, and they were all overwhelmingly mild -- including ours. As you...