‘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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Elder Scrolls Online sold 138,000 digital editions in June
A new Superdata report covering June is surprisingly glowing about the MMO industry. MMOs, combined with social and mobile titles, accounted for $660 million...
Bungie hires the Destiny subreddit founder
Who says that Reddit rots your brain? Not Chris "Cozmo23" Shannon, who parlayed his position as the founder of Destiny's subreddit into a position...
Guild Wars 2 provides an overview of Adventures
Let's be real here, everything you do in Guild Wars 2 is some sort of adventure. That's part of the basic premise of the...
Guild Wars 2 confirms the last Revenant legend is Shiro Tagachi
Revenants have proven very capable of inflicting conditions with demonic legends, being defensive with dwarven legends, and healing their allies with centaur legends. It's certainly...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Trinity dependence in Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns
I don't know about you lot, but I really enjoy ArenaNet's Points of Interest livestream that airs on its official Twitch channel. It contains a massive...
Elder Scrolls Online gives you a first look at Imperial City DLC pack
Elder Scrolls Online has been cruising along in buy-to-play mode for a few months now (and reportedly doing quite well for itself), but its...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 22
Justin and Bree discuss Trove's launch, Skyforge's early access, Star Citizen criticism, RaiderZ's sunset, SWTOR's halt to raids, and The Secret World's big grouping push, with mailbag questions on player frustration with WoW's Draenor content drop-off.
Revival’s Gonzalez: ‘This is a passion project and not a money grab’
Gothic horror sandbox Revival cuts a bit of a polarizing figure, at least early on in its development process and at least here in...
Not So Massively: Path of Exile’s Awakening and Heroes of Newerth’s new character Skrap
This week in not-so-massive online games, third-person MOBA SMITE confirmed that it's raised over $640,000 in competitive tournament prize money through sales and crowdfunding...
Guild Wars 2 combat working as intended, will work even more as intended in the future
Don't expect Guild Wars 2 to change its combat to mimic the traditional holy trinity setup that most MMOs have, but do expect that...
One Shots: Blinded with science
Skyforge is becoming a hot property for bored summer gamers looking for something new to explore. Reader Tyler reports in from the recent closed...
Revival recaps its June dev blogs, talks physical coin storage
Fantasy sandbox virtual world Revival has released its latest newsletter, which takes a look back at the various dev blogs penned by the Illfonic...
Here’s a bit of info on Guild Wars 2’s veteran character slots
Guild Wars 2 forum user Linfang posted a blurb about veteran character slots yesterday that's probably worth a read if you're a fan of...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World introduces Issue #12: To the Dark Tower Below
We've known for quite some time that The Secret World's next issue would be dungeon-based. We also knew it would take place under the...
Get a bird’s eye view of Guild Wars 2’s new WvW map
As testing proceeds for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, PvP players will undoubtedly be interested in getting some time in with the brand-new...
Paragon Chat sees 200 concurrent users at peak
Paragon Chat is not the City of Heroes revival that everyone wants, obviously, but it is a chance to walk around, chat, and enjoy...
The Daily Grind: Do you recommend Destiny?
I've been eyeballing Destiny lately, even before that shiny PS4 announcement and even though I was underwhelmed when I played the game on one...
You can grab Destiny’s Year One reward even if you haven’t been playing that long
Bungie has unveiled a reward for Destiny's year one players. Achieving said reward sounds pretty grindy, as you'll need to complete all of the Moments of Triumph...
Elite’s Braben on self-publishing and the perils of virtual reality
Frontier CEO David Braben is interviewed at VideoGamer.com, and he has some interesting nuggets both for fans of Elite: Dangerous and for industry watchers...
Elder Scrolls Online dominates PlayStation 4 charts
While ZeniMax has yet to release any sales numbers from Elder Scrolls Online's console launch, at least one thing is crystal clear: the MMO...
