buy to play

‘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.

Elder Scrolls Online’s new chapter is about to be revealed on stream – watch here!

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Update 4:30 p.m. EDT: It's Summerset! Full details now here. It's the big day: The Elder Scrolls Online is just about to reveal its next...
Cool.

Vivendi has sold its stock in Ubisoft, giving up on its hostile takeover

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Winners never quit, we're told. So what does that mean in light of Vivendi divesting itself of Ubisoft shares? The investment in Ubisoft (well-known...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 162: The Morninglight wants you

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Justin and Bree discuss Project Gorgon, RIFT, Trove, Secret World Legends' South Africa, ArcheAge's progression servers, Black Desert on Xbox One, World of Warcraft, and Bless, with mailbag entries on classic Guild Wars and RIFT Prime.

Super Adventure Box returns to Guild Wars 2 on March 29, balance patch lands March 27

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My kid has been pestering me about Super Adventure Box for months now, and finally I'll be able to tell him just when the...

NCsoft Q1 2018: NCsoft has hired 1000 employees in the past few years, considers VR and ARG titles

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Everybody saw NCsoft's financials last month, I'm sure - Guild Wars 2 bouncing back thanks to Path of Fire, Lineage M driving revenue, and...

Leaderboard: Do you speculate on WoW Tokens or other legal MMO RMT currency?

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Is Call of Duty the next Activision franchise to migrate to Battlenet? Very likely. As Eurogamer broke earlier this month, players are now able...

Elder Scrolls Online teases upcoming Summerset expansion

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Elder Scrolls Online fans are freaking the heck out over a simple little Tweet from ZeniMax this past weekend. A royal proclamation of an...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever won anything amazing in a lockbox?

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With all of the discussion and controversy over MMO lockboxes as of late (you might have seen something), one thing we haven't talked about...

Guild Wars 2: The first forum chat covers boss difficulty, instance chaining, and season rewards

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ArenaNet is trying something new for Guild Wars 2 this season: In addition to its episodic AMAs on Reddit, it's opened up a temporary...
Slide in.

The Crew 2 is rescheduled for a June 29 launch

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The Crew 2 isn't as delayed as you might've thought: Ubisoft just announced that it's launching on June 29th, and it's looking like a...
Romantic?

EVE Online, Star Trek Online, and Elite Dangerous players memorialize physicist Stephen Hawking

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Multiple MMORPG communities are celebrating the life of internationally renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away earlier this week. In EVE Online, players came together...
Try it out.

Battle Bards Episode 117: Destiny

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Two Destinies for the price of one! For this episode, the Battle Bards are gearing up in their favorite space armor to take on...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

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Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 161: Project power

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Justin and Bree discuss RIFT Prime, Trove, Project C, Project Gorgon, H1Z1, The Division 2, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on mimicking Minecraft's business model and playing the good stuff while you still can.

Guild Chat Special Edition: Interviewing Guild Wars 2 guild POOF

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which we examine all things guild-related and solve problems faced by fellow members of the Massively...

Guild Wars 1 programmer answers fan questions, affirms the game’s continued existence

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Do you have any burning questions about Guild Wars? No, not Guild Wars 2 -- the original, the one that has long fallen out...

Albion Online launches Lancelot with fishing and guild updates, grants everyone a week of sub play

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Albion Online's Lancelot update, its third major release since launch, is officially live this morning. The star of the update, as we've previously covered,...
There's not a lot of nice things to say about ArenaNet lately, so I'm glad to find things.

Guild Wars 2 living season AMA covers maps, PvP, API, bugs, avocado smoothies, the Olmakhan, and more

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With Guild Wars 2's latest living story episode out of the gate, ArenaNet's devs sat for another Reddit AMA. They don't talk much future...
hooray sorta

Anonymous sources confirm that Diablo III is headed to the Nintendo Switch

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You currently cannot play Diablo III on as many different platforms as you can play, say, Skyrim. But it looks like the number of...

Albion Online’s upcoming fishing system hopes to reel in casuals and hardcores alike

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Fishing has become a hot topic in MMOs this week, thanks to the likes of RuneScape and Albion Online. The latter will see the...

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