‘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 Crew 2 previews the joy of collections with the upcoming Hobbies update
Do you like to have a fine collection of valuable automobiles in The Crew 2? The game's next major updates is all about hobbies, hence...
Guild Wars 2 on the storytelling philosophy of next week’s No Quarter episode
ArenaNet's Novera King has emerged to pen Guild Wars 2's latest dev blog - no surprise since it's about storytelling and she's one of...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the shortest leveling content?
One of the oddball things I actually liked about Star Wars Galaxies - even its NGE version - was how wildly fast leveling went...
Fight or Kite: Surveying Crowfall’s new Frostweaver class and interface updates
I’ve been itching to get back in and play some Crowfall, and with the War of the Gods update I've got a good reason:...
The Daily Grind: What MMO should a true MMO newbie try in 2020?
If you've ever been to generalist gaming Reddits, you know one of the most common threads is the "what should I play" thread, which...
The MOP Up: Bossa Studios releases World War AI
Bossa Studios, the team behind the late Worlds Adrift, just rolled out a new prototype game for you to check out for free: World...
One Shots: This is my rifle, this is my gun
Let me tell you, the wilds of Fallout 76 aren't a place for nerf guns and slingshots. When you're facing down deathclaws and up-armored...
The Stream Team: Saving the Skald-King in Elder Scrolls Online
Massively OP's MJ couldn't get through all of Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor prologue last time, so the group is back together tonight to tie...
Destiny 2 details Legendary infusion, adjustable Engrams, and a tweaked community quest
Bungie has kicked out a whole bunch of information for Destiny 2 this week. A great deal of it lies in the recent TWAB...
LOTRO Legendarium: What I want from Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO
While my primary interest and focus in this column continues to be Lord of the Rings Online, I'm not so stubborn as to refuse...
Elder Scrolls Online outlines upcoming adjustments to the Vampirism skill line
We already know that the Greymoor chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online will be making some fundamental adjustments to the Vampirism and Werewolf skill...
NCsoft Q1 2020: Double YoY revenue thanks to Lineage 2M, Tencent to pub Guild Wars 2 in China
Business is booming over in NCsoft's world, though it's not because of its western holdings. In this first quarter of 2020, the South Korean...
The Daily Grind: If you had your way, what one MMO patch in history would you roll back?
Rollbacks are in the news lately, and not for great reasons - some Guild Wars 2 players did indeed lose hours of time played...
PSA: But seriously, don’t buy vampirism cures in the Elder Scrolls Online cash shop
The Elder Scrolls Online Reddit community has been ablaze this week over a recent in-game promotion in the cash shop that appeared to encourage...
Guild Wars 2 hands out free mount skins to players who lost playtime in the EU rollbacks
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 players in the EU were dismayed to realized that an unintentional rollback of their server cluster had cost...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 271: Population Zero plus three
Justin, Bree, and Sam discuss Population Zero, Blizzard's Q1 2020 report, Trove Delves, ESO's Greymoor prologue, and Guild Wars 2's rollback, with adventures in Fallout 76, Starborne, LOTRO, and SWG Legends, and mailbag topics on MMO reward hoarding and whether SSG's business model is predatory.
The Elder Scrolls Online previews the writing behind the upcoming Greymoor story
The problem in writing vampires in The Elder Scrolls Online is not that you have to invent a reason for them to exist; no,...
MMO Business Roundup: Guerilla Collective, PlayStation Studios, XLGAMES’ new MMO, ChinaJoy, and NCsoft’s baseball team
Welcome back to another roundup of business stories relating to MMOs - or adjacent to them. Adjacentness!
Funcom: The Norwegian MMO company will be participating...
Guild Wars 2 has restored the EU servers to Monday morning after multiday rollback
Yesterday, we covered the Guild Wars 2 community's many reports across Reddit and the official forums that the game had suffered a major rollback...
The Stream Team: Getting through Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor prologue
With Greymoor on its way to fill out ESO's expansion list, another story opens up to experience. That story starts in the prologue quest,...
