‘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: Delivering presents to all the children in Elite Dangerous
'Tis the season of giving in Elite: Dangerous, and MOP's Chris is certainly not one to miss out on making sure some toys get...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2022
One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...
The Stream Team: Who will win the Wintersday race in Guild Wars 2?
Massively OP's MJ learned that Chris has never experienced Wintersday in Guild Wars 2, so she invited him to join in the holiday celebration....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 401: The holly jollies
Justin and Bree discuss MMO winter holidays, Chris Metzen's return to WoW, WoW's trading post, Blizzard still hunting for a China publisher, My.Games leaving Russia, and Elder Scrolls Online altering its annual roadmap, with a voice mail topic on the Twitch drops phenomenon.
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2022
This has been a pretty challenging year for a lot of reasons, and my 2022 in Choose My Adventure certainly didn't feel any different...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO boasts the best graphics as of 2022?
Last year, I singled out Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons - then already on our horizon - as being worthy of the "best...
The Stream Team: Polar plunges, mud balls, and more in Elder Scrolls Online’s New Life festival
How do you celebrate the holidays? In Elder Scrolls Online, slinging mud balls, fire dancing, a polar plunge, and burping after a meal are...
Elite Dangerous promises ‘interim update’ for patch 14 in early 2023
Elite: Dangerous is going to be going generally quiet as it enjoys a holiday break, but before it does, the team at Frontier Developments...
Global Chat: Shopping for a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server
Interested in going back to Star Wars Galaxies -- or trying it out for the first time -- but you find yourself paralyzed with...
Destiny 2 brings back its Dawning seasonal event, details January 3 Iron Banner, and talks about secret content
The Christmas season has come once more to Destiny 2 as the Dawning is back for another year between now and January 3rd. This...
Elder Scrolls Online returns to Xbox Cloud Gaming
Elder Scrolls Online is one of the more accessible MMORPGs on the market, with multiple ways and platforms to play it. However, last February,...
Diablo IV dev livestream talks up seasons, battle passes, and the Codex of Power system
With Diablo IV still eyeing its June 6th open beta early access release date (in spite of reports of crunch casting doubt on that...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Stick and Rudder: The year that was in Elite Dangerous, from self-owns to sloppy updates to slight hope
To say that Elite: Dangerous had a rough 2022 is putting it mildly (and pretty much dismisses the nuance this retrospective hopes to provide)....
Elder Scrolls Online kicks off its New Life Festival today
Ready for a little holiday cheer in The Elder Scrolls Online? Then you'll be wanting to enjoy the New Life Festival, which is very...
Guild Wars 2 says that 2022 saw more new players than any year since 2015
It's been quite the year for Guild Wars 2 -- and ArenaNet wants you to know it. The hard-working studio took a moment to...
Guild Wars 2 has already reverted the partial post-processing changes it made yesterday
Buried in the patch notes of yesterday's Guild Wars 2 Wintersday patch were notes about post-processing settings that seemed innocuous but turned out to...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2022
I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...
The Stream Team: Sinking a navy in Guild Wars 2
Of the three plans Massively OP's MJ could choose in her fight against Guild Wars 2's Zhaitan, she selected to cripple his navy. She'll...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 400: A fireside chat with Justin and Bree
Justin and Bree discuss The Game Awards, Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Nightingale, Wayfinder, Dune Awakening, the FTC fighting Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard merger, ZeniMax's unionization effort, and Black Desert's Calpheon Ball, plus an epic Daily Grind showdown with topics ranging from the MMO regrets to the best elves.
