‘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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The Stream Team: The end of Echoes of the Past in Guild Wars 2
After a short break for some therapeutic piñata bashing, Massively OP's MJ is ready to dive back into Guild Wars 2's Living World Season...
Massively Uplifting: Spring and summer philanthropy and farewells in MMOs
'Tis the season! What season? Why, spring and summer! Spring is a time of growth, and our gaming-verse certainly saw growth of the generous...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 428: Guild Wars 2 spills its secrets
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, WoW Classic hardcore mode, Tarisland, and The Sims 5 multiplayer, with adventures in LOTRO, Diablo IV, SWTOR, and truck sims, plus a mailbag topic on starting out in LOTRO.
The Stream Team: Search and rescue in Elder Scrolls Online
Since the Ascendant Magus threatened everyone when he crashed the big party on Elder Scrolls Online's High Isle (and what a party it was...
Destiny 2 owns up to current stability problems and outlines a multi-month process for correcting them
For many players of Destiny 2, the Year of Lightfall has felt more like the Year of Disconnect Errors, with the game's stability feeling...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 will compensate fan whose art was misappropriated for a cutscene
Bungie has major egg on its face after a recent Destiny 2 cutscene was found to have copied fan art from a couple of...
One Shots: Time for a well-deserved bio break
One can only imagine how it would be if our MMORPG characters were like the Sims with bladder meters. We'd have to pause raids...
The Stream Team: Returning to the crucible of Elementalist combat in Guild Wars 2
MOP's Chris is feeling the buzz of an expansion's arrival once again as Secrets of the Obscure looms in Guild Wars 2. And while...
Massively Overthinking: Why don’t MMOs try harder to foster great guilds?
MOP reader Mahaf1089 posed an interesting question beneath a WoW Factor column earlier this month, one that clearly resonated with our readers because it...
Steam’s Summer Sale 2023 is live through July 13 with deals on FFXIV, GW2, New World, ESO, and more
Valve has revived the traditional Steam summer sale this afternoon, with gobs of good deals running well beyond the 4th of July. Perhaps the...
Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure weaponmaster training system beta launches today
As announced on Tuesday, Guild Wars 2 is gearing up for a massive beta starting today to allow players to test out the new...
Perfect Ten: The most regrettable MMO studio names
The name of a studio has no bearing on the game's quality. You might disagree and point to a game you were more inclined...
Guild Wars 2 formally announces fourth expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, launching August 22
We hope you liked the Guild Wars 2 expansion name leak because it accurately called the summer expansion: It is indeed Secrets of the...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO tutorials continue through the whole game?
A while back, there was a random thread on the Elder Scrolls Online subreddit from a poor lost soul desperate to figure out what...
Guild Wars 2 counts a million new players, touts an expanding studio, and talks up End of Dragons sales
There was an interesting article up on PCGamesN earlier this month proclaiming that Guild Wars 2's isn't a dead game (which you surely know)...
Destiny 2 kicks off fishing rally in Savathun’s Throne World, preps charitable Giving Festival
This week's Destiny 2 newsletter might be comparatively meager, but if you're a fan of the fishing activity added with the latest season, you've...
One Shots: Dragons don’t like to be in the dark
Just because dragons are big and scaly and can nuke cities from orbit doesn't mean that they lack insecurities. In fact, it's a little-known...
Global Chat: Are you pumped up for Path of Exile 2?
Online ARPG enthusiasts are no doubt keeping an eye on the long-in-the-coming Path of Exile 2 -- and crossing their fingers that it ends...
Rumor: Guild Wars 2’s next expansion name appears to have leaked thanks to Steam and the USPTO
Awww, we were hoping the days of Guild Wars 2 leaks were finally past us, but this latest leak - purportedly of the next...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...
