‘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: Guild Wars 2 goes Into the Spider’s Lair
Owing to the timing of the final meta event, Massively OP's MJ was not able to finish off Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland
Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.
Guild Wars 2 announces Janthir Wilds expansion – with player housing and raid – coming August 20
So who's up for a new Guild Wars 2 expansion? What if I told you Guild Wars 2 is about to get a real...
Destiny 2’s long-delayed Final Shape expansion is officially live today
The time has come at last for the Guardians of Destiny 2 to face off against the Witness, aka Ol' Smokey Jones. The looter...
New World is rolling out new layered instancing tech Amazon is calling ‘shards’
You might think this is just another post about murdering bunnies in New World, but you're only partly correct. New World is in fact...
The Stream Team: Into the Infinite Panopticon in Elder Scrolls Online
Massively OP's MJ found the Infinite Panopticon in ESO's Necrom. Now she just needs to enter yet another swirly green skull portal to continue...
Concord is a team vs team FPS that promises approachable but deep gameplay
Evidently game studios smell Overwatch 2's blood in the water because we've got yet another addition to the team vs. team hero shooter sub-genre....
Elite Dangerous makes additional tweaks to Thargoid War mechanics
Elite: Dangerous already made some updates to the mechanics of the Thargoid War earlier in the week, but that wasn't the end of Frontier...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Gold Road chapter and Update 42 is now live for PC players
Whether you're interested in story, spellcraft, or wondering just what sort of Daedric prince Ithelia is, today is the day to find out: The...
World of Warcraft arrives on GeForce NOW’s cloud service, as Blizzard confirms support on the forums
Do you like yourself some cloud gaming? If so, there's a good chance you've investigated or used GeForce NOW's cloud platform, where a single...
The Daily Grind: Ships, mounts, or vehicles – do you have a preferred mount type in MMOs?
MOP's own Chris inspired today's Daily Grind as last week he was drooling all over the newly revealed Elite Dangerous spaceship. "Seeing this new...
One Shots: Stargazing for incoming asteroids
Now that you've got the Jurassic Park hymn playing in your head from today's headline picture, you're prepared to romp around with dinos, stick...
Guild Wars 2 embraces summer with a new line of… beach wear
Believe it or not, the summer season is here -- and it's best you start dressing like it! To help you out in that...
LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Update 41 plans monster play reward track, birding hobby, and coop crafting event
Yesterday's Lord of the Rings Online dev stream was a particularly informative one as SSG's Orion made an appearance to talk about what's coming...
Destiny 2 provides one more Final Shape preview, collabs with Dungeons & Dragons for a cash shop bundle
We are now mere days away from Destiny 2: The Final Shape going live (unless you were among those PS5 players who got that...
Elder Scrolls Online’s AMA addresses everything from DDOS attacks and scribing to bifurcated content difficulty
Elder Scrolls Online's devs sat for a lengthy ask-me-anything thread on Reddit this week - feels almost old-school now, doesn't it? - and the...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Portions of Destiny 2’s Final Shape expansion accidentally become playable to PS5 fans ahead of schedule
We're reasonably sure that releasing the next expansion for Destiny 2 is a bit more involved than pushing a "go" button, but it looks...
Elite Dangerous introduces its next new ship, the Type-8 cargo hauler
Space truckers of Elite: Dangerous rejoice because the game's next new ship is for you. Say hello to the Type-8, a new medium-size cargo...
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away a two-person horse mount for… playing the game
If you're the kind of person who loves to cook up her own spells, then you were probably already going to dig deeply into...
