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‘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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Battle Bards Episode 109: Club Penguin

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When you’ve got a club full of penguins overseen by the Mouse House itself, you know things are going to get both wacky and...
feelin' fine!

Bungie posts Destiny 2 Curse of Osiris trailer, kicks off expansion stream

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MMO studio streams are so common that we seldom report on them until after the fact and then only if they've actually revealed something...
BEARS, BEARS, BEARS

The Elder Scrolls Online celebrates Orsinium’s birthday with sales and rewards

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Listen, The Elder Scrolls Online players, did you realize that Orsinium has been out for two years as of this month? Because it has....

Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG

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Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking more of Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire story

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As promised, Flameseeker Chronicles is back with a continuation of the Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire story deep-dive I've been crafting over the last few...

NCsoft Q3 2017: Lineage M drives record profits, Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire isn’t too shabby either

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NCsoft had an exceptionally good third financial quarter this year, reaching a record high in sales and operating profit for the company, and it's...
Where now?

Guild Wars 2’s fourth living story season is set to begin November 28

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ArenaNet just announced that the fourth season of living world content will kick off in Guild Wars 2 on November 28th. The teaser provides...

PSA: Elder Scrolls Online is handing out free clockwork pets

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Psst! Hey kid! Would you like to get your hands on some of the latest tech from Vvardenfell? How about if it was... completely...
Too hot (hot damn)

Here’s how Guild Wars 2 players will go broke on Black Friday

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You know it's coming. When the turkey and pumpkin pie meet their demise, the Black Friday sales will start. Guild Wars 2 fans will...

Divining the details of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite from a Pokemon Go player’s perspective

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When we first heard rumors about a Harry Potter version of Pokemon Go, I said I could barely imagine what the game might be like before...

Destiny 2 upgrades to new consoles, plans clan XP event

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With Curse of Osiris and season two on the way for Destiny 2, the team at Bungie has some time to fill with events...

One Shots: The party at the end of all things

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Do not be alarmed. Your brain is now under our control, but that is a good thing. You no longer have to worry about the...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate

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Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...

Kakao will launch Bluehole’s Ascent: Infinite Realm MMORPG in the west

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Good morning! Who wants some genuinely good news for the MMORPG genre? Great. Black Desert publisher Kakao is bringing Ascent: Infinite Realm westward. That'd...
Reed.

Working As Intended: Guild Wars 2’s new mount licenses are still lockboxes, but they’re not the worst lockboxes

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Pretty much everyone assumed that back when Guild Wars 2 planned out mounts, it did so with its cash shop in mind. The game...
Cursing.

Destiny 2 once again denies misidentifying cheaters in latest ban wave

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When Destiny 2 launched on PC just two weeks ago, the cheater ban waves began. Players revolted, arguing that they hadn't been cheating and...
Artwork by gqears2gnomes/knight-mj

Guild Wars 2 balances classes and adds spectacular new mounts – for a price

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Guild Wars 2 patched in new mounts today, and they're gorgeous. But don't get too excited; they're in gated behind a weird new RNG...
Cool.

Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC launches for Xbox One and Xbox One X – here’s the new trailer

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Elder Scrolls Online's Clockwork City DLC is live for Xbox One and Xbox One X players today! As we've previously covered, today's rollout features a...
The joke here is that the dungeons for this game were miserable slogs.

WildStar, Blade and Soul, Aion, and Lineage II come under DDoS attacks

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Hackers launched an offensive against NCsoft yesterday, targeting several of the company's MMORPGs in a series of DDoS attacks. WildStar, Aion, Lineage II, and...

Elite Dangerous patches in preparation for Xbox One X support

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The Elder Scrolls Online isn't the only MMO getting love with the Xbox One X launch tomorrow: Frontier posted today that Elite Dangerous is...

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