‘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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Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2023, from Guild Wars to Gorgon
Well here we are, my friends. It's always such a pleasure. Remember when your votes killed me twice? OK, maybe that's being overdramatic, but...
Jukebox Heroes: A yuletide soundtrack for a gaming holiday
The winter night hushed to a halt to allow the wind to whisper. "Take heart, my friends," she crooned over snow-capped hills and frozen...
The MOP Up: Warhammer Online’s Return of Reckoning ‘chickens out’
Return of Reckoning's rogue server changed how combat buffs worked and added a new level 40 quest that pays out in, er, a "Chicken...
One Shots: Undies flapping in the wind
If the internet has taught me anything -- and it hasn't, I'm stubborn -- it's that you want to check what's behind you for...
Guild Wars 2’s ArenaNet is working on expansions for both 2024 and 2025 already
Guild Wars 2 is ending 2023 with a traditional dev blog recapping the year and looking ahead to what will be the game's fifth...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2023
If you want to look at the overall health of the MMORPG industry, one vital heartbeat that must not be missed is continual development....
The Stream Team: Wanting that Wintersday birb plushie in Guild Wars 2
How do you make Massively OP's MJ love a holiday event even more? You make adorable plushies available! And Guild Wars 2 just made...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 450: Sour cream in caves
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, The Crew's sunset, Palia's Switch launch, Black Desert and New World's 2024 plans, Age of Water, and the Year of EverQuest, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, SWTOR, and Project Gorgon.
A fresh first impressions: Checking out Palia for the first time on Switch
Outside of MMORPGs, life sims are probably the most-played genre in my household. I originally bought Stardew Valley for my wife a few years...
Elder Scrolls Online’s New Life festival returns for the holidays on December 21
Elder Scrolls Online is making y'all wait for your Christmas event this year: the New Life festival is finally launching on December 21st.
"The 2023...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO boasts the best graphics as of 2023?
We all know that there is no right or wrong answer to this question, right? Plenty of photorealistic games look like trash, and plenty...
The Stream Team: Undercover in Elder Scrolls Online, with beards
As Massively OP's MJ works her way through the Auridon main quest in Elder Scrolls Online, it has answered some very basic questions she...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offered the best advances in crafting in 2023?
For today's Daily Grind, I am not asking you which MMO has the best crafting of all time. That game is dead and lives...
Destiny 2 expands its fireteam finder beta to all activities and accentuates the positives of its 2023
The year's end for Destiny 2 was definitely not the brightest for Bungie, but the studio is electing to look at the bright side...
The MOP Up: Valheim’s Christmas surprise
As the nights turn frosty in Valheim, a strange wintry cheer spreads through the land. Could it be... could it be a plum pudding...
One Shots: Come on and give us a hug!
Normally I'm all about hugs. Hugs make you feel accepted and protected and -- on a cold day -- allow you to leech heat...
Necrom and EGS propelled nine-year-old Elder Scrolls Online to its highest MAUs since 2015
ZeniMax Online Studio's Matt Firor has closed out the week with a dispatch for Elder Scrolls Online fans. While talking up ESO's achievements on...
Tribes 3 Rivals promises a business model that has learned from past monetization mistakes
Near as we can figure, there are two types of players learning that the venerable Tribes FPS franchise is coming back in the form...
Ubisoft’s 2014 racing game The Crew 1 is sunsetting in March 2024
2023 has one more thing to take away from the greater MMO genre: Ubisoft is sunsetting The Crew, the original game in the driving...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024
It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...
