‘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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Join the Thieves Guild today in The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest DLC
The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC is live today on the production servers. Those with active ESO Plus memberships will be able to...
Guild Wars 2 is not going back to biweekly updates: ‘When we’re shipping every two weeks, we just have to ship’
There's no way that the Guild Wars 2 AMA on Reddit could possibly top the big bombshell about Colin Johanson's departure that started the...
The MOP Up: Blade & Soul brings in the Warlock (March 6, 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...
One Shots: Hook, line, and sinker
Personally, I don't get the appeal of fishing in MMOs, mostly because I get super-fidgety if I have to stand still in-game for long...
Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties
In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...
Guild Wars 2’s Colin Johanson leaves ArenaNet; Mike O’Brien takes over as game director
Game director Colin Johanson has been with ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2 for quite some time now, but nothing lasts forever. New game director...
This guy won a million bucks from Elder Scrolls Online
ZeniMax has announced the winner of its Elder Scrolls Online Million Reasons to Play giveaway, and it's still not you.
In fact, it's a 30-year-old...
Firor says Elder Scrolls Online’s success ‘has gone a bit under the radar’
If you are hankering to see Elder Scrolls Online's Director Matt Firor squirm uncomfortably with the game being labeled as an "MMO," then have...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best healing experience?
In light of the epic reveal of Revival's graphic healing system this week, I thought Massively OP reader Fenryr Grey's recent question to our...
Guild Wars 2 previews final Spirit Vale raid boss
"Sometimes when people who don’t play video games ask me what I do for a living, I just tell them I come up with...
Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes
Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...
Elite: Dangerous delays full Horizons, Engineers launch ‘to push the quality up’
Financial documents released by Frontier yesterday were scooped up by eagle-eyed Redditors because they frame a revenue shift against a delay in the full and final release...
ESPN muses on e-sports in Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, WoW
ESPN has a big piece out this week on e-sports in MMOs, chronicling the many (failed) attempts of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft to...
Ex-Destiny devs on the downsides of big game production
It should almost go without saying that making a successful AAA-type game requires more than throwing money and manpower at a computer screen all...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Maw of Lorkhaj trial will have a puggable normal mode
The latest Elder Scrolls Online Thieves Guild DLC dev diary is aimed at dungeoneers seeking to take on Maw of Lorkjah, the upcoming 12-man...
Diablo III honors fallen developer with special cow level
Bumped into the extra special bonus cow level in Diablo III? It's there for a good reason and a limited time as a tribute...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 53: The MMOs of winter 2016
Justin, Bree, and Matt discuss Blade & Soul, The Division, Black Desert, WildStar, Final Fantasy XIV, and a mailbag question on Destiny 2.
MMORPGs celebrate The Revenant’s Oscars
If your MMORPG has a Revenant class, you'd best not be missing the opportunity to plug it today, as the movie celebrates its three...
Elder Scrolls Online DLC adds loot NPC, reinstates RvR forward camps
ZeniMax has a few last bits of PvP info to push out before The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC goes live in March. Of...
How player healers will cure disease and set bones in Revival
In my very first MMORPG, I was obsessed with the idea of becoming a healer -- not someone who cast healing spells but someone...
