‘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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SGF 2024: Amazon discusses New World Aeternum on console, swimming, solo content, and archetypes
In case there's anyone out there still confused: New World Aeternum is not a single player or co-op game. I know the Summer Game Fest announcement of...
The Daily Grind: What are some of your MMO housing must-haves?
With the word that Guild Wars 2's next expansion will feature player housing -- homesteads in the game's parlance -- everyone seems to be...
The Stream Team: Bash the demon, smash the demon in Guild Wars 2
It's Dragon Bash time again in Guild Wars 2. But before she can Bash the dragon! Smash the Dragon, Massively OP's MJ needs to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 472: Guild Wars 2 and New World’s wild ride
Justin and Bree discuss New World's console reveal, Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds, Legends of Aria, FFXIV Dawntrail's media tour, WoW The War Within, and Diablo IV's expansion, plus adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Project Gorgon, and Ylands.
SGF 2024: Ubisoft unveils new content for The Crew Motorfest, Skull & Bones, and The Division 2
The final breathless gasp of this year's Summer Game Fest presentations has occurred, as multiple days' worth of gaming showcases has ended with Ubisoft...
First Impressions: Elder Scrolls Online story, not scribing, is Gold Road’s apex
If you followed my series of Choose My Adventure columns from last month, you'll know that I ended up making Elder Scrolls Online my...
Destiny 2 readies Echoes for launch on June 11 along with outlining the year-long plan for Episodes
The future of Destiny 2 - at least for the next year - is episodic. The first episode following the launch of The Final...
SGF 2024: Elder Scrolls Online opens free play promo, Fallout 76 prepares for this week’s Skyline Valley
At last night's Summer Game Fest's Xbox showcase, Blizzard may have stolen the show with its launch date for World of Warcraft The War...
The Daily Grind: What are the scariest words in the MMORPG genre?
The other day I was chatting up a friendly MMO dev who - in the context of the then-still-fresh Elder Scrolls Online rollback -...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 players race to beat The Final Shape’s raid
Destiny 2 players are racing this weekend to see who will net the world's first takedown of The Final Shape's new raid, Salvation's Edge:...
One Shots: The portents of the heavens
When you look up at the night sky and everything's going nuts, it's either the end of the world as we know it or...
Destiny 2 dates the start of several activities and crowns its world first raid winner
Got a calendar handy? You might want to, especially if you're a Destiny 2 player because Bungie's weekly newsletter has got some dates for...
Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...
Bohemia’s adorable multiplayer pirate sandbox Ylands is headed to Switch as a B2P offline version
We hadn't even heard of Ylands before today, but now we wish we had; it's apparently Bohemia's 2019 cozy - and very tiny -...
Guild Wars 2 previews Janthir Wilds’ spears for Guardians, Rangers, and Necromancers
When ArenaNet told Guild Wars 2 fans that it would be expounding soon on how Janthir Wilds' new land spears will work for different...
Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds land spears are actually part of a new mastery line
I know you all want to hear about Guild Wars 2's new Homestead housing system, revealed yesterday as part of the Janthir Wilds expansion...
The Stream Team: Trying out the story missions of Destiny 2 The Final Shape
It's time for MOP's Chris to once again strap on his Warlock boots and sail into Destiny 2, as this week has brought the...
Ubisoft’s The Crew Motorfest announces season 4, fanning the flames of East vs West Coast rivalries
Ubisoft announced a new season for The Crew Motorfest aka The Crew 3 this week: Season 4 launches July 3rd, free for owners of...
Guild Wars 2 picked up a former Sims 4 dev to help develop Janthir Wilds’ housing system
Two new maps? New story? Land spears? Pish-posh; none of that compares to the personal housing system coming to Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds...
Destiny 2’s Final Shape is hamstrung by cutscene-killing connection errors and a suspected spike in dungeon difficulty
Yesterday saw the launch of Destiny 2: The Final Shape, which naturally means that we're circling back to see how its initial release went,...
