‘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 studio Bungie lays off another 220 workers, ending work on multiple games
Bungie is conducting yet another round of massive layoffs today. The Destiny 2 studio announced the elimination of 220 jobs, around 17% of the...
The Stream Team: A Guild Wars 2 rescue Ranger
In order to investigate Rata Novus, Massively OP's MJ split up her Guild Wars 2 NPC team, heading off originally with Taimi and Braham....
Guild Wars 2 plans a community meetup of ‘food, drinks, and giveaways’ in Seattle August 30
What does Guild Wars 2 do when it decides to not be a part of PAX West but still wants to do something fun...
Choose My Adventure: Blowing up rocks for fun and profit in Elite Dangerous
When I first started my run in Elite: Dangerous for this week's Choose My Adventure, I was just barely over the amount of credits...
The Stream Team: Not-Necrom adventures in Elder Scrolls Online
It's not easy seeing green. All. The. Time. So even through green is one of her favorite colors, Massively OP's MJ is glad to...
One Shots: Retrofuturism for rent
Here's your two-step process to make anything old look all futurey like something out of the Jetstons. Step one: Take a normal thing. Step...
NCsoft president Songyee Yoon’s new book tackles the gaming industry’s lingering perception problems
I suppose with Throne & Liberty on the way, it only makes sense that NCsoft executives are granting interviews in western press - like...
Destiny 2’s August patch seeks to address Crucible problems and the ‘epidemic’ of PvP quitters
If you're a PvP player of Destiny 2, then this week's newsletter is almost exclusively for you, as Bungie's PvP strike team is checking...
Massively Overthinking: How much research do you do before playing a new MMORPG?
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I discussed our experiences in No Man's Sky (again), and both of us came to the conclusion...
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds blows into town next week
Guild Wars 2's Festival of the Four Winds -- or as I call it, "Festival of the Falling Off Stuff" -- is breezing back...
Guild Wars 2 is using Janthir Wilds’ raid and convergence to assess future raid content
With less than a month before Janthir Wilds opens up new zones and housing content, Guild Wars 2's devs are now turning their promotional...
Here’s what to expect from New World’s two-phase Aeternum console beta tomorrow
All right finally here we go: Amazon has just pushed out a big post on what exactly gamers can expect from New World's first...
The Stream Team: The return of Rata Novus in Guild Wars 2
Thankful that she obtained the Guild Wars 2 hunting mastery in just one night, Massively OP's MJ is more than ready to continue Heart...
Choose My Adventure: Gleeful space truckin’ through Elite Dangerous
This is, for all intents and purposes, going to be a very simple, laid back, and perhaps obnoxiously serene edition of Choose My Adventure....
MMO studio Daybreak is named 2023 Extra Life Partner of the Year, posts 2024 fundraising plans
Daybreak's charity work has paid off: This week, Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network named Daybreak Games its Extra Life Partner of the Year...
The MOP Up: Grim Dawn spices up the endgame with a new mode
OARPG Grim Dawn's third expansion is on the way with a brand-new game mode that should inject some extended life for its playerbase:
"Ascendant Mode...
One Shots: Hey World of Warcraft has housing after all…
This just in, World of Warcraft beat Guild Wars 2 to the punch by instituting the most robust, flexible, and creative housing system ever...
Elder Scrolls Online has tweaked the Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP event for its return next week
Hey, PvPers! Elder Scrolls Online is rerunning the Whitestrake's Mayhem PvP event just for you starting July 25th - and it's got a bit...
Guild Wars 2 deep-dives Janthir Wilds’ enhanced warclaw mount aka journeykin
August is shaping up to be an interesting month here in MMO land, and a large part of that is the impending release of...
The Stream Team: Hunting the Nuhoch hunting mastery in Guild Wars 2
It figures: Shortly after Massively OP's MJ felt relief for conquering the gliding mastery to continue with Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns story,...
