‘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 Secret World publishes enhanced player experience patch
If you've ever felt frustrated by The Secret World's high level of combat difficulty, you might want to see what the team has done...
Coleman says there’s ‘no shame in waiting’ to back Crowfall
Holding off on backing Crowfall, even though over a million dollars' worth of players have contributed to the PvP title? J. Todd Coleman says...
Guild Wars 2 delays first-person view patch
Today was supposed to be the day that Guild Wars 2 entered the world of first-person views, but alas, it was not meant to be.
ArenaNet Communications...
Crowfall will allow offline skill training
Sampling from the best of both worlds, Crowfall will allow both offline passive and online active skill training for characters.
In a dev update posted...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World experience blurs the lines of reality
When Funcom recently teased an upcoming forum-only event for The Secret World, my interest was immediately piqued. Though we have scant details right now,...
PAX East 2015: Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns storms PAX
It's a huge weekend for Guild Wars 2 at PAX East, as the team is making Heart of Thorns available to the public for...
Crowfall will be powered by Unity 5
The newly released Unity 5 cross-platform game engine will be responsible for driving at least one upcoming title: Crowfall.
The team said that it's been...
Crowfall explains what you can take out of a dying world
By now, most of you know that Crowfall's PvP campaigns will take place on time-limited worlds that will come to a definite end. But...
Strongholds and the Jungle in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
While I was taking my test drive of the Revenant class at ArenaNet's recent press event, I wasn't just playing through old familiar portions of...
Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Revenant
It might be premature, but I'm pretty sure that the Revenant is my favorite profession in Guild Wars 2. And strangely, it's because it...
Ascent arrives on Steam with a discount
The insanely ambitious Ascent: The Space Game may make a new friend or two this week with the space sim arrival on Steam Early...
Guild Wars 2 elaborates on camera improvements
Forget the living world; it may be that finally allowing players to zoom into a first-person view will be the most significant event that's...
The Secret World Q&A covers mission design secrets
Do you ever wonder just what goes into making one of The Secret World's hand-crafted missions? The dev team opened up about the process...
Crowfund: Crowfall easily passes its fundrasing goal
Call it Crowfund. In only a few short days, Crowfall has passed its $800,000 crowdfunding goal -- and there looks to be no end...
The Stream Team: Teaming up for The Secret World’s amusement park
There's much to love about The Secret World, as MassivelyOP's MJ and Justin will both tell you. But why settle for just telling when...
Guild Wars 2 rethinks the defiance system for Heart of Thorns
Just when you thought it was safe to enter an expansion jungle, think again. The Guild Wars 2 dev team is hard at work...
Guild Wars 2 will implement first-person POV in March
File this one under things we didn't see coming: ArenaNet has just announced that it will fulfill a long-running fan request by adding a first-person point-of-view...
Global Chat: Business model first, game construction second
Welcome back to Global Chat, the column where we reach out and give props to interesting and well-written articles from the MMO blogosphere. Today...
Guns of Icarus now has a ship knockback cannon
It's been a long while since we checked in with Guns of Icarus, and shame on us for that! Muse has released patch notes...
Crowfall pushes its Game of Thrones connection
If you've gotten the eerie feeling that Crowfall is not-so-subtly trying to establish a connection in fans' minds between the MMO and the hit...
