‘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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Destiny 2: Lightfall raises the stakes with its launch trailer
"Not all of us have lives to spare."
As a new villain whose head certainly doesn't look like an adorable chef's hat looms over the...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO events are not for the high-level playerbase
Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...
Elder Scrolls Online highlights some of the quality-of-life and accessibility features coming with Update 37
As usual, the next update to Elder Scrolls Online isn't only about the Necrom expansion and all of its gubbins; it's also about Update...
Vitae Aeternum: Previewing New World’s first season and updated 2023 roadmap
Last week, Amazon Games invited members of the press to a presentation where it unveiled its plans for a new seasonal content model for...
The Stream Team: Battling Aetherblades Guild Wars 2
After a rocky start in Guild Wars 2's Sky Pirates, Massively OP's MJ is ready to take the fight right to the Aetherblades. She'll...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 410: Cyberpunk meets gaslamp
Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Diablo IV, Palia, Nightingale, Blizzard, NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, and EG7/Daybreak, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, and SWG Legends.
Destiny 2’s Bungie is awarded $4.3M in arbitration against aimbot maker
It's a very good day for Bungie and a not-so-great day for AimJunkies, the maker of a popular Destiny 2 cheat software. Games Industry...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Destiny 2 was both bumpy and engaging
As we close out this random whim of mine to enter shooter MMOs for this month's Choose My Adventure, we clear out our list...
Elite Dangerous seeks the ‘thoughts and feelings’ of players about the ongoing Thargoid War
How do you feel about the aliens that are attacking the galaxy of Elite: Dangerous? In a gameplay sense, not necessarily about the aliens...
Ubisoft’s third quarter report sees sales up, net bookings down, and live games ‘perform solidly’
The third quarter report for 2022-2023 from Ubisoft is out, and it has some interesting figures for armchair financial followers, as well as some...
The Elder Scrolls Online previews Necrom’s Arcanist class in action in latest video
We're still plucking out the juicy bits from IGN's Fanfest trailerpalooza from last weekend (juicy to us and our readers, anyway), which brings us...
One Shots: Flash, flash, hundred-yard dash
Rumor is, if you can run fast enough, you can accomplish just about anything. Go back in time? Sure. Quick dry jeans? Definitely. Continually...
Guild Wars 2 disables, then re-enables, its WvW objective scaling rewards system during a live test
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 wanted to run a test for WvW that involved an objective scaling rewards system that was intended to...
The Daily Grind: How much homework do you do coming into a new MMO?
Recently, I've re-entered the world of Guild Wars 2 after a quite lengthy absence. But I've done it in a different way than before,...
Blizzard’s Mike Ybarra stuns devs with demoralizing bonus-slashing and return-to-work meeting
Earlier this week, we noted that Activision-Blizzard was preparing to end more of its COVID-induced work-from-home policies and that some of its studios that...
Destiny 2 runs down Lightfall’s new ritual weapon, character boosts, interactive trailer, and 24-hour maintenance
Lightfall looms ever closer to the horizon of Destiny 2, which naturally means that the game's weekly newsletter is once more all about the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite biome type in MMOs?
A while back, Pantheon posted some slides for some of its in-production biome types that caught my attention. Obviously, the mockups are slick, and...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Destiny 2 hypes up the features, characters, and setting of the Lightfall expansion in latest ‘vidoc’
Whether you call it a vidoc, a bigger trailer, or a video game infomercial, the devs of Destiny 2 are gearing up for the...
Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space
Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
