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.

FIght for your right to... fight more, mostly.

Guild Wars 2 kicks off the fourth PvP League season

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To everything, there is a season, and this is the season for Guild Wars 2 players to resume beating the snot out of one...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s Out of the Shadows

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I figure that it's been long enough for the majority of you to have run through Guild War's 2's first instalment of the Living...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 77: Improving your lockbox experience

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Diablo III, RIFT, Elder Scrolls Online, Blizzard, Black Desert, and TERA, with mailbag questions on new blood for MMOs and a lockbox rant.

Guild Wars 2 plots its fourth birthday bash

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ArenaNet has begun teasing its plans for Guild Wars 2's fourth birthday. Four years! The month of August will see a tag promo across...
Challenge: Get queued up.

Eternal Crusade promises news on its MMO mechanics

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Behaviour Interactive has a new Eternal Crusade Q&A up with a question that addresses the MMO component of the game and how it relates...

One Shots: Player barbecue

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Oh, standing in the fires might look cool and give your character that mysterious aura that's so desirable among the trendy set, but in...

Diablo III’s 7th season has begun

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Diablo III's 7th season of play is live in all regions, Blizzard announced last night. This season includes adjusted pacing for the set rewards;...

Elder Scrolls Online explains how to conquer Cyrodiil

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One of the interesting features that came with Elder Scrolls Online's Update 11 this week was the option to take a ragtag band of...
Bingpot.

The Daily Grind: How much does your MMORPG character’s appearance matter to your gameplay?

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I like to think of myself as the kind of person who doesn't care all that much about aesthetics as long as a game...

The Stream Team: Contagions and cracking codes in The Secret World

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MassivelyOP’s MJ is investigating a mysterious disease in for Dr. Varias in The Secret World's Transylvania. She left off last time trying to crack...

Massively Overthinking: One more chance for WoW Legion?

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The World of Warcraft subreddit went nuts this week over a response to a player who told Blizzard that it had "one more chance... again"...
Still proud of this shot.

Perfect Ten: The ten things I look forward to with MMO launches

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It's not long now until World of Warcraft: Legion launches, which is all that I've been waiting for now for a while. Sure, technically...

Guild Wars 2’s Mike O’Brien on the Gaile Gray hack

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Earlier today, Redditors began circulating a forum thread filled with pictures of a character named Gaile Gray running around classic Guild Wars spouting nonsense (and worse)....
Same as it ever was.

Diablo III brings patch 2.4.2 to the live servers

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The latest patch for Diablo III is here, and it brings with it new challenges. Specifically, it brings the new Torment XI-XIII challenge levels,...

Global Chat: When MMORPG raiding becomes a job

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When does a game go from fun to obligation? Xenophics wrote a gut-wrenching confession about how raiding in World of Warcraft became his "office,"...
This is actually much better than I expected.

Battle Bards Episode 79: Combat music

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Ready to battle it out more than usual? The Battle Bards are cranking up the combat tunes from MMORPGs today, inviting all sorts of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 76: The fall of Firefall

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Guild Wars 2, SOTA, SWTOR, Firefall, StarCraft Universe, Age of Wushu 2, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on early MMO adoption and permadeath in MMOs.

The Stream Team: A visit to the Elder Scrolls Online Style Parlor

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Judging by last week's stream, you might think that the Shadows of the Hist DLC is all about adding more dungeons to Elder Scrolls Online....

Elder Scrolls Online’s Shadows of the Hist DLC goes live

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If the world seems a little darker and a smidge more dangerous today, do not fret: It simply means that Elder Scrolls Online has rolled...

The Daily Grind: How visible should your achievements be inside an MMORPG?

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Last week, the Massively OP staff were chit-chatting about Guild Wars 2's Out of the Shadows when I mentioned that I loathe the masteries...

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