‘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 Stream Team: Investigating Fort Salma for Mordremoth’s mayhem in Guild Wars 2
While investigating Scarlet's insanity... er, work with the ley lines, Massively OP's MJ discovered that Mordremoth appears to be targeting waypoints on the Asuran...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
Fight or Kite: Star Realms just might be the perfect blend of deckbuilder and dueler
While I was away on a trip over the last few weeks, I was able to play Star Realms, a deckbuilder that I expected...
Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ second chapter, What Lies Within, launches May 23
Guild Wars 2's next living story chapter is officially launching a week from today on May 23rd. It's called What Lies Within and will...
Elder Scrolls Online’s revised roadmap includes 30 hours of story content for Necrom
Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom is less than a month away -- June 5th, people -- and ZeniMax has locked down the full feature list...
One Shots: Who left the gas stove on?
So. This is awkward. I know everyone has an excuse why you were definitely not messing around with the giant's gas stove in Blade...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Necrom’s open-world dungeon and a raid inside a madman’s mind
While there's plenty of content in Elder Scrolls Online's Necrom expansion-campaign for solo players, group-oriented gamers will rest assured that there are two new...
Elder Scrolls Online drops action-packed new trailer for June’s Necrom expansion
Just yesterday, we were noting that it should be time for ZeniMax Online Studios to crank up the hype machine for Necrom, The Elder...
The Stream Team: Going for gold in the Guardian Games of Destiny 2
MOP's Chris is back in Destiny 2 once more, only this time he's going for gold! Or at least silver or bronze. It's the...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Necrom’s Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha
Where is the hype train for Elder Scrolls Online's Necrom? Well, maybe this week's blog post is the first steam blast from the engine,...
NCsoft Q1 2023: NCsoft confirms Throne & Liberty’s delay to back half of 2023
NCsoft's Q1 2023 financials have arrived, and it wasn't the best quarter for the Korean gaming giant, which saw both mobile and PC games...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Entanglements
In Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 2, MassivelyOP's MJ has been learning more about her former foe, Scarlet, as well as finding more...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What we learned (and didn’t) from Guild Wars 2’s spring 2023 roadmap
The most nerve-wracking thing about being an MMORPG player is uncertainty. MMO players don't like change, and when a change is teased, many of...
Elite Dangerous Update 15 goes live today – here are the patch notes
The time has come for another update to Elite: Dangerous. The 15th update, to be specific, as the Live 4.0/Odyssey edition of the spacefaring...
The Stream Team: Obliterating Orcs in Elder Scrolls Online
Massively OP's MJ has started working with Regent Cassipia to help cripple the Serpent Court; as she works from the inside, MJ carries out...
Elite Dangerous previews Update 15’s new ship tech, new Thargoid foes, and a new ground mission
Earlier this week we learned that Update 15 for Elite: Dangerous would be getting a May 9th release date but we didn't know anything...
Destiny 2 is raising its standalone season prices, players are naturally displeased
It's not just MMORPG subs that have gone up over the last year: Even season passes are creeping up in some online titles. The...
Elite Dangerous’ Update 15 is launching May 9, but we still don’t know what’s in it
Players of Elite: Dangerous have mostly known about Update 15 as the one that got pushed back into May, but now Frontier Developments is...
Requia Online Reborn brings an ‘accessible’ form of the mobile TCG RPG MMO to Steam early access on June 23
It's not just a TCG, and it's not quite an MMORPG, but it does have a little bit of all three of these acronyms...
Eden Eternal has relaunched with a side order of NFTs and a delay on Steam
It's re-launch day for Eden Eternal, and if you haven't been following along, well sit back because we're about to do a recap, and...
