‘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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Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Rising Flames
Logging into your Guild Wars 2 account right now will grant you access to an absolute treat in the form of episode 2 of the...
Destiny launches Rise of Iron, starts selling game bundle
Enough of living in shame and squalor, it's time to rise and become an Iron Lord! Destiny: Rise of Iron is now live and...
Guild Wars 2: Eternal Coliseum PvP and the original Ring of Fire
Who's ready for Guild Wars 2 to open up a whole new landmass for us tomorrow? Yep, the Ring of Fire maps -- well,...
The MOP Up: Batman invites you to his gala (September 18, 2016)
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...
Leaderboard: What’s the very best zone added in WoW Legion?
Last week, Massively OP's World of Warcraft columnist, Eliot Lefebvre, came damn close to coaxing me back to WoW with his piece rating Legion's...
The Stream Team: Finding more for the ARK flock
Have you seen The Birds? With how many flying creatures MassivelyOP's MJ and the crew are trying to collect in ARK, they might be...
Here are the virtual goodies BlizzCon attendees will take home in November
If you're headed to BlizzCon this year -- virtually or in the flesh -- you're surely anticipating the swag, much of which comes in...
Elite Dangerous’ 2.2 The Guardians hits PC beta next week
Frontier announced in this morning's newsletter that the beta for Elite: Dangerous'Â 2.2 patch, dubbed The Guardians, will kick off next week.
"We’re thrilled to let...
H1Z1 delays King of the Kill launch, opts to stay in early access for a while longer
Last we heard, H1Z1 was getting ready to officially launch its PvP title, King of the Kill, on September 20th. Well, plans have changed,...
The Stream Team: Doing The Secret World’s dungeon randomizer for Doomboard
The Doomboard will be mine! MassivelyOP's MJ has been chanting that in her head for three weeks, and she's working hard to get her...
Chaos Theory: Tips for returning to The Secret World for Halloween
It's almost that time of year -- the best time of year! It's the most wonderful time of the year in fact, especially in...
Guild Wars 2’s Ember Bay is over-the-top metal
When Rising Flames launches on Tuesday, Guild Wars 2 players will be transported to the Ring of Fire island chain first introduced in Guild...
Solo players are welcomed to Craglorn with The Elder Scrolls Online’s One Tamriel
When Craglorn first arrived in The Elder Scrolls Online back in 2014, it had a robust selection of content for max-level grouped players and...
Atlas Reactor: Blur trailer, September 30 head-start, October 4 launch
Turn-based strategy MOBAÂ Atlas Reactor is launching for real on October 4th on both Steam and Trion's Glyph platform, the studio announced in a press...
Get pumped with this Destiny: Rise of Iron trailer
"Will you stand where the Iron Lords fell?"
We might not exactly know who these Iron Lords were, but we are willing to bet that...
Elder Scrolls Online goes offline ‘to prevent further rollbacks’
The Elder Scrolls Online is apparently suffering a round of emergency maintenance following the return of servers after regular patch maintenance this morning. The...
Guild Wars 2’s Rising Flames episode will finally fix revive orbs
If you play Guild Wars 2, I bet you have a huge stack of pink revive orbs in your bank just like my stack,...
Battle Bards Episode 82: Dragon Nest
This week on Battle Bards, the crew dips its toes into the "candyland" world of Dragon Nest. It's a game that belies stereotypical expectations,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 82: Boldly go
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, GW2, RIFT, STO console, Otherland, EVE F2P, Camelot Unchained, Dual Universe, and Hero's Song, with mailbag questions on what games MMO devs play and Stranger Things vs. The Secret World.
Tamriel Infinium: Why I’m sold on Elder Scrolls Online’s One Tamriel
It hasn't taken me long to fall in love with One Tamriel. This Elder Scrolls Online team has a distinct understanding of what makes this...
