b2p

‘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.

Elder Scrolls Online

Elder Scrolls Online’s welcome back weekend starts April 16

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Elder Scrolls Online is officially welcoming back beta participants on April 16th at 10:00 am. EDT. The free trial lasts through Monday, April 20th...
We had a bet running that it would take longer.

Guild Wars 2’s Stronghold public beta is today; here’s a guide

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You can play Guild Wars 2's upcoming expansion PvP mode right now! The Stronghold public beta is today! And then it closes up shop...

Destiny’s House of Wolves expansion launches May 19th

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Destiny fans ready for a new expansion after last December's The Dark Below have to wait until only May 19th for the release of...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: April 11, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye to Descent Underground's fundraising campaign. It was a fond farewell, though, since the sci-fi space shooter reboot topped...

The Stream Team: Giving away more Guild Wars 2

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What? Massively OP's MJ has another copy of Guild Wars 2 to give away, you say? And this is a deluxe edition? Well hot...

The Stream Team: Concluding The Secret World’s Issue #9 story

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It may have taken some time (and not a little help from Massively OP's Justin), but MJ is finally on the concluding mission of...
Out in the great wide open.

Elite’s producer talks mission revamp, Steam sales

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Elite: Dangerous producer Michael Brookes posted a new update letter on the game's forums today. He thanks the community for making E:D the "number...

Elder Scrolls Online sends out console transfer offer for older accounts

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For a limited time, Elder Scrolls Online is offering a deal to allow PC players to copy (not move) their accounts to the upcoming...

Chaos Theory: Six tips for new Secret World players

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Now that Blingzilla is no longer roaming the lands tempting everyone with goodies galore (or turning movement into a stroll through a mire of...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you turn real money into MMO money

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Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every...

The Secret World fans prepare ‘investigation RP event’

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The Secret World has always had a vibrant roleplaying community, and now these players are creating the next big event for the game. A...
You get a stronghold! And you get a stronghold! Everybody here gets a stronghold!

Guild Wars 2 will run a 24-hour public Stronghold beta

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Are you unable to contain your excitement for Heart of Thorns much longer? Do you need a taste of the expansion right now? Because...
Elder Scrolls

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO fantasy setting?

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I've been fooling about in Elder Scrolls Online this week, and in some ways it's like coming home. I wrote Massively's ESO column for...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Four fabulous Guild Wars 2 vistas worth visting

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Guild Wars 2 makes me tick because the creatives at ArenaNet have laid such a unique and amazingly vast world at my character's feet, filled with...

Here’s how to jury-rig a VR alternative for Elite: Dangerous

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If you've had dreams of flying spaceships in the third dimension but were too poor to afford an Oculus Rift, then one clever gamer...
Come back! Wait, not yet. Let us fix our collective hair first. It's super messy.

Beta players are welcomed back to a freebie Elder Scrolls Online weekend

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The Elder Scrolls Online would like beta players who never bought the game to come back and see the game in its new buy-to-play...

Global Chat: Are MMO players too mean to game developers?

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Is it too easy to forget that MMOs, like all video games, are made by people just like you and I? Belghast over at...
Ascent

New Ascent patch has gas, terraforming

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Sometimes a news post comes along that you're just meant to write. For me, it's this little ditty about Ascent. For one thing, I'm...
This is what happens when you give guns to plants.

Guild Wars 2 hopes to reinspire interest in story

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It's hard to be a Sylvari in Guild Wars 2 at the moment. After all, the plant people have an undeniable tie to the...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online sucked me in with werewolves

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A couple of weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, we talked about making a game sticky without vertical progression. Although the question was a bit...

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