‘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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Peek at Guild Wars 2’s notes for next week’s balance patch to see whether you’ve been buffed or nerfed
Is it a proper balance patch if anyone walks away from the list of changes completely happy? ArenaNet is putting that question to the...
Massively Overthinking: How essential are hardcore gamers to an MMO’s health?
Last week, there was a positively eyebrow-raising thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit that tied neatly into the overall MMORPG meta discussion many...
New World details its semi-instanced player housing system
Amazon knows the best way to make me set aside my worries about New World: a dev blog on player housing. Will it work?...
The Elder Scrolls Online tours the new Unhallowed Grave dungeon
Why would anyone want to walk around in a burial tomb anyway? Well, you're either searching for treasure or you're going to stop some...
Guild Wars 2 eyes new achievement track for onboarding newbies
ArenaNet appears to be continuing its attempts to make Guild Wars 2 palatable to new players - both in terms of content in the...
Guild Wars 2 rehires a former programmer, drops PvP patch and season next week
You know what I don't love? Chronicling how more Guild Wars 2 devs have left the building. So I'm not going to do that....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best voice acting?
Because I love a good story in an MMO -- I know, I'm rebelling against the cool crowd here -- I particularly enjoy it...
Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago
In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What Eye of the North means for Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga has so far been filled with plenty of nostalgic callbacks to the original Guild Wars’ Eye of the North...
Elite Dangerous players agitate for the return of GalNet lore, even if they have to write it themselves
The trouble with petitions and open letters is that if a studio accedes to one, people are going to keep trying it. That seems...
One Shots: Something’s fishy here…
At first glance, it looks as though Vincent has been treed by a giant floating koi and an armored chicken. If we're honest, this...
Elder Scrolls Online takes you on a date, shows off new housing, and hosts a massive memorial
I hope you don't mind me getting personal, but how is your love life doing lately? Ooh, I'm sorry to hear that. At least...
Elder Scrolls Online explains the need to re-download the game client and offers a free torchbug for doing so
Yes, when Update 25 of The Elder Scrolls Online hits, you're going to have to re-download the entire client all over again. The upshot...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...
The Elder Scrolls Online kicks off the Murkmire Celebration on February 20
Do you like lizards? Of course you do. Everyone likes lizards. The Elder Scrolls Online likes lizards so much that it's celebrating the most lizard-focused of...
Failing to down Drakkar in Guild Wars 2 turns on free-for-all open PvP in the zone
All right, so it's a little bit harder to beat Drakkar at this point in Guild Wars 2. That's fine. You kind of expect to...
Guild Wars 2 will begin its first public Swiss tourney PvP test tomorrow
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet has been murmuring the words "Swiss tournaments" for months now, all the way back to Mike Z's big post...
Perfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020
I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...
Destiny 2’s latest emergency outage resulted in a nasty rollback for players
The Destiny 2 emergency outage yesterday that led to frustration across gaming sites and Reddit yesterday has been repaired, but it was not without...
NCsoft Q4 2019: It was a rough quarter for MMORPGs, especially Guild Wars 2
NCsoft corporate had a solid financial quarter for the last three months of 2019, with increases in revenue quarter over quarter and year over...
