‘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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New World elaborates on the design of the eight artifacts added with Season of the Guardian
Amazon's latest New World dev blog isn't going to shake any foundations with breaking news, but it does deep-dive the new artifacts added in...
Perfect Ten: Great MMO April Fools’ Day pranks from back in the day
There are two types of people on April 1st: those who are annoyed and indifferent to the tomfoolery going on all around them, and...
Vitae Aeternum: So just what is New World’s big June announcement?
For the past few months, Amazon Games has repeated the same mantra in regards to New World's future: Wait for the announcement in June....
Elite Dangerous plans to sell ship bundles – including its upcoming new ship – in the cash shop
A new announcement from Elite: Dangerous has lit a tinderbox among its playerbase, as Frontier Developments has confirmed that it plans to start selling...
The Stream Team: A whole new World 3 in Guild Wars 2’s SAB
It's a whole new world 3 in Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box. OK, maybe a whole new world is a slight exaggeration (how...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 466: Elder Scrolls Offline
Justin and Bree discuss PlanetSide 2's new developer, Elder Scrolls Online's rollback situation, the revival of Life is Feudal, and the resurrection of Legends of Aria Classic, with adventures in LOTRO, ESO, and World of Warcraft, plus mailbag topics on Palia, Blade and Soul, Dragons Dogma Online, and MMOs that would work offline.
Choose My Adventure: Elder Scrolls Online makes a play to be my second home MMO
When it comes to MMORPG games, most of the time I hold just one home title -- an MMO that I stay subscribed to...
Destiny 2’s new Final Shape teaser video showcases The Pale Heart, Nathan Fillion narration
We're barreling on toward the June 4th launch of Destiny 2's reoriented The Final Shape expansion, which means Bungie is continuing to build up...
The Stream Team: Fate’s Lost Dream in Elder Scrolls Online
If searching the volume of the card catalogues of yesteryear gave you nightmares, then the Tranquil Catalogue in Elder Scrolls Online's Apocrypha might just...
Destiny 2 moves group finder out of beta and confirms Into the Light’s permanent content
The weekly Destiny 2 newsletter is once again about the future of the online FPS, specifically offering some advanced looks and important dates for...
The Stream Team: The starting steps of a Necromancer kitty in Elder Scrolls Online
MOP's Chris likes tanking. He likes cats. He likes magic. He likes large weapons. And lucky for him, The Elder Scrolls Online lets him...
Elder Scrolls Online hands out a generous compensation package for locked accounts
In one of the darker chapters of Elder Scrolls Online's history, this past week saw the game lock down and roll back many accounts...
The Daily Grind: Do alternate and classic servers risk alienating existing MMO fans?
Back in December, Guild Wars 2 boss Josh Davis told fans that "alternate servers and hardcore modes aren’t a priority for ArenaNet," as the...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs and ‘fresh piece of gum’ syndrome
Back in March, MOP reader Exarch Cathedra posted a comment to a Daily Grind about daily logins and sticky MMOs that caught my attention,...
Skull & Bones is already on 50% discount two months after launch
After being delayed approximately four thousand times, to the point that we were even making jokes about it to the date it released, how...
Fractured adds new playable demon races and cash shop with its May 8th Invasion update
Dynamight Studios formally announced Fractured Online's next patch last night: Dubbed The Invasion, it heralds the arrival of two new player demon races, specifically...
Elder Scrolls Online *might* have all rolled-back accounts unlocked by the end of the week
Earlier this week, Elder Scrolls Online players were annoyed by a nasty bug that duplicated their efforts between the PTS and North American live...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO rotation
Rotations! They're not just just for your tires any more; they're in your MMORPGs, determining what order you should press the shiny buttons on...
The Stream Team: Fashion distractions and Super Adventure Box in Guild Wars 2
It's not as if Massively OP's MJ is using Guild Wars 2's introduction of a fashion view today to distract her from the SOTO...
Tower of Fantasy debuts a teaser trailer for its April 30 Celestial Destiny update
The hype machine is beginning to spool up in Tower of Fantasy, as the shared world RPG has started talking up the April 30th...
