‘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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Vague Patch Notes: The specter of racially locked classes in MMOs and before
One of the things I've taken on multiple times in this column is the concept of gender-locked classes, which are bad, and if you...
Battle Bards Episode 227: NCsounds
Syl and Syp return to the vast library of NCsoft’s MMO soundtracks, with games like Aion, Lineage, and Blade & Soul to keep our...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 436: Rise of the Angry River Hobbits
Colin, Justin, and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 SOTO, LOTRO River Hobbits, New World Rise of the Angry Earth, Gloria Victis' impending sunset, and the impact of MMO currencies.
Elder Scrolls Online’s update 39 hits console as ZeniMax preps the Undaunted celebration
Console fans, it's your day in Elder Scrolls Online as update 39, which has been available on PC and Mac for a few weeks...
Bethesda vows to ‘keep working on’ Redfall, arguing it doesn’t ‘quit or abandon stuff’
Most eyes are on Bethesda and its sprawling single-player space epic Starfield, particularly in light of the RPG's bugs and how previous game releases...
New World’s devs detail mount trinkets, Edengrove changes, artifact perks, and ‘influence v2’ in latest video
It's probably no surprise that the devs of New World are talking about the forthcoming Rise of the Angry Earth expansion in this month's...
One Shots: Bumping into an old, old friend
When you log back into an MMORPG after a long time away, that feeling of being an intruding stranger is pretty strong. But you...
Destiny 2 reintroduces Crota’s End raid, readies another Iron Banner, and heralds Stasis focus for Season 23
Most of the stuff coming out of Destiny 2 for the week is primarily returning content, as the FPS reopened the Crota's End raid...
Elder Scrolls Online disables player gifting because of ‘fraudulent behavior’
Just in case you were feeling too charitable toward Elder Scrolls Online -- and your fellow players -- lately, ZeniMax came along to replace...
Elder Scrolls Online is working on a better launcher for you, your kids, and all of humanity
While it's not exactly new, Elder Scrolls Online's launcher is about to be improved in a big way. ZeniMax said that it's on the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best cosmetic system (not the best cosmetics)?
The other day I was mucking around with my outfit on SWG Legends and having some conflicting emotions. First, I was grateful that the...
Massively Overthinking: Does reused content in MMOs bother you?
One of the big complaints I saw on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit right before Secrets of the Obscure launched was the grump that...
Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
New World’s first expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, launches October 3 with mounts, flails, new housing, and more
New World's 2023 roadmap promised its first expansion, but until now, we had few details on what that meant. Recently the folks at Amazon...
Guild Wars 2 finally removed Valdhertz Crypts from Wizard’s Vault objectives after SOTO’s first week
Those darn Valdhertz Crypts! No one in Guild Wars 2 likes them! That's why people were kinda miffed about having Valdhertz Crypts (and other...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Mother of Stars
Massively OP's MJ has discovered she's not in Kansas anymore! Not that she ever was; she was in Guild Wars 2's Garenhoff investigating the...
Lineage II brings back the Red Libra Merchants and their unique wares until September 12
When is a merchant not just a merchant? When it looks like a cat bunny, of course. Also, it's when the merchant sells things...
Elite Dangerous addresses a laundry list of Update 16 issues in latest bug-squashing patch
It appears to be the same ol' song and dance out of Elite: Dangerous: Frontier releases an update to the game is released, and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 435: Guild Wars 2’s secrets revealed
Justin and Bree discuss Gamescom, Nightingale, Crimson Desert, WoW Classic's hardcore servers, ArcheAge's devastating merge, and TennoCon's Warframe and Soulframe news, with adventures in LOTRO, Baldur's Gate 3, and Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's latest teases.
The Daily Grind: Does a quarterly content cadence work for MMORPGs?
I've been mulling over Guild Wars 2's new content cadence for a while now, but last week's roadmap of what to expect in the...
