‘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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SuperData October 2019: League of Legends is back on top as console and PC trend downward
SuperData's October 2019 global revenue report on the video game industry is up today, and if you were hoping the PC and console industry...
Elite Dangerous’ big bug-fixing update lands in January, with betas starting next week
Remember back in October, when Frontier announced that it was listening to player feedback and bumping off Elite Dangerous' big December content update -...
Guild Wars 2 admits new fractals, raids, and even hairstyles are many months away
As we're mulling over our own impressions of Guild Wars 2's latest content release, Whisper in the Dark, the players who've likely already finished...
Perfect Ten: When MMO lore is at odds with the game
Lore is made up. We all know that. People who write the lore for games are not doing research into the real story and...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Whisper in the Dark
ArenaNet has just dropped the first full installment of Guild Wars 2's the Icebrood Saga after a strong start with its prologue, and I'm...
The Elder Scrolls Online disables a purchased costume due to an invisibility exploit
If you bought the Dungeon Explorer costume in The Elder Scrolls Online, you may have noticed that it is now a bit less... visible than...
Guild Wars 2’s Whisper in the Dark saga chapter is live this afternoon
At the tail end of this summer, ArenaNet revealed that it was changing up Guild Wars 2's content cadence by ditching the "seasonal" content...
Fight or Kite: MMORPG PvP is about competition, not combat
Over the last month, Eliot has written a Daily Grind and Perfect Ten that really got me thinking about what PvP truly is. He...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you wish you could play on the Switch?
I love my Switch, but I feel starved for games to play on it, especially online games. Sure, there are a few out there,...
Battle Bards Episode 156: Feeling blue
Is blue a color? An emotion? A song? An overused alien skin tone? One thing is for certain: Blue shows up an awful lot...
Global Chat: EverQuest II’s 15 years of being in WoW’s shadow
For just a few short weeks of its now 15-year lifespan, EverQuest II existed apart from a launched World of Warcraft. Then late November...
One Shots: The miseries of camping
Isn't camping wonderful? Reconnecting with nature, smelling like smoke, and sleeping with a canvas wall between you and predators? Obviously, it's not for everyone,...
Guild Wars 2 talks about Strike Mission bosses in Whisper in the Dark and confirms more Mastery Points
Curious about the Whisper in the Dark episode coming to Guild Wars 2 next week? Do you have roughly 30 minutes of time to...
LOTRO Legendarium: First impressions of Minas Morgul
To kick off this early look at Lord of the Rings Online: Minas Morgul, I want to start by taking a step back to...
Elder Scrolls Online posts an update regarding fixes to the Activity Finder
Remember that Undaunted event in The Elder Scrolls Online? The one that had to be shut down after only a few hours due to...
Rumor: A complete overhaul is in the works for Anthem
So, you know how Anthem scaled back its content updates and seems to have started moving into quiet acceptance of being at a dead...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMO betas rob you of launch joy?
I use to think of betas as being unpaid labor for video game companies, but maybe I've been going about it all wrong. On...
The Elder Scrolls Online begins its dungeon-delving Undaunted event [Update: Now disabled]
Do you consider yourself generally lacking in daunts when it comes to The Elder Scrolls Online? Resistant to being daunted? Undaunted, if you will? Because the...
NCsoft Q3 2019: Another flat financial quarter as NCsoft pumps money into NCWest
Given the strange financial quarters that Blizzard, Funcom, Square-Enix, and Nexon had, you're surely wondering how NCsoft fared. And the answer is... about the...
Guild Wars 2 details Whisper in the Dark’s Essence Manipulation mastery track mechanics
Gonna be honest, I am really excited to see this dev blog that went up on the Guild Wars 2 website today, not so...
