‘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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Elder Scrolls Online invites players back to Blackwood and the Deadlands in its Gates of Oblivion event
Regular players of The Elder Scrolls Online are likely familiar with how the MMORPG likes to kick off events that invite players back into...
Destiny 2 peak player concurrency hits a new all-time low on Steam
Bungie has already acknowledged the deep player disappointment in Destiny 2, but now we're all able to see at least a part of that...
One Shots: Lightning strikes twice
When you see lightning on the horizon, it may be time to seek shelter, brew a favorite hot beverage, and settle in for a...
Guild Wars 2 unveils the Guardian’s ‘bullets of justice’ and delays some WvW restructuring plans
It's not every day that you see a tanky MMO class run around with pistols, but that's the sort of fun lunacy that's coming...
Destiny 2 details Season of the Wish’s weapon, reward adjustments, and next dungeon launch date
Destiny 2's community team is continuing to try to make its players focus on November 28th's Season of the Wish arrival and less on...
Guild Wars 2 teases shortbow Engineers and their ‘essence-infused arrows’
I have to say, as someone who counts a Holosmith in her top handful of Guild Wars 2 toons, that I couldn't initially see...
Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true
A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...
Guild Wars 2 introduces the pistol-totin’ Elementalist for testing November 28
Elementalists, your time to pew pew in Guild Wars 2 is finally here, or will be when the weapon proliferation beta goes live on...
Destiny 2’s Season of the Wish gets a new trailer as The Final Shape release date still hangs in limbo
The next season for Destiny 2 is waiting in the wings with a launch date of November 28th, but now that release timing is...
Guild Wars 2 shows off the support options of Mesmers with rifles
You probably do not think of rifles as a supportive option most of the time, and if someone claims that she will heal you...
The Stream Team: The search for Isgarren in Guild Wars 2
After searching Guild Wars 2's Bastion of the Obscure, Massively OP's MJ finally saw Isgarren through a memory fragment, in which he was conversing with...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 40 and Endless Archive content are live on console today
Console Elder Scrolls Online players, your last major update of 2023 has officially arrived today as Update 40 goes live, two weeks after the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 445: Rally for Project Gorgon
Justin and Bree discuss Project Gorgon's community, Wayfinder's layoffs, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, WoW's Guardians of the Dream, and Guild Wars 2's Through the Veil, with adventures in WoW, Fallout 76, LOTRO, and Project Goron, plus a mailbag topic on why more MMOs don't use contemporary real-world settings.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
Guild Wars 2 previews the Revenant’s upcoming tether-focused Scepter weaponry
If you don't love Revenants in Guild Wars 2 now, you will never love them again; you can hear the Scepter saying you should...
The Daily Grind: What’s clogging up your main MMO character’s bank right now?
Lord of the Rings Online seems deliberately designed to make even people who enjoy organizing inventories (me) a wee bit crazy about it. I...
One Shots: Protect me, mighty cactus!
Health care in fantasy worlds is a tad peculiar, to put it lightly. Doctors routinely mix it up on the battlefield, medics throw explosive...
Guild Wars 2’s staff Warrior opens a new avenue for frontline support
In case it isn't obvious by now, ArenaNet is clearly planning to drop a new video and dev blog for every single new weapon/class...
Destiny 2 resolves to ‘get back up’ as it confirms Season of the Wish for November 28
A common refrain heard in the story missions of Destiny 2 is "Eyes up, Guardian" - a call to stand once again after being...
Guild Wars 2 previews the Thief’s upcoming axe proficiency gameplay
The upcoming weapon proliferation of Guild Wars 2 is giving Thieves an all-axes pass, if you know what we mean. You can axe any...
