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‘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.

The Game Archaeologist: Fallen Age

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Imagine that one day you wake up, stumble to your computer, and check in on the morning news. Among the various tidbits is a...

Elite Dangerous’ Beyond – Chapter One’s beta begins today

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When I bought my husband Elite Dangerous a few weeks ago, he asked me what it included, and I gave him a blank look...

Let’s play dress-up: Elder Scrolls Online explores its upcoming outfit customization system

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Virtual fashionistas of the world have a lot to anticipate with Elder Scrolls Online's February update, as it contains the MMO's brand-new outfit system....

Leaderboard: Are you playing on Age of Conan’s new ‘saga’ server?

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Age of Conan's Saga of Zath server officially launched yesterday, drawing fresh attention back to the game that Funcom maintenance-moded by proxy last year...
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Wall Street firm sees Destiny 2 ‘struggling with player engagement’

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Destiny 2 is definitely not riding high in its first year of live operation. Warning signs started to appear late last year, as datamining...
Oh well.

SuperData December 2017: Fortnite and PUBG kick butt, while Destiny 2 slumps

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SuperData's December 2017 global revenue chart is out, and it's good news for the industry on the whole, as holiday spending was up by...

Elite Dangerous disables part of its passenger transport system to block huge credit exploit

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If you were among those farming your Elite Dangerous bajillions running bulk passenger transports to Smeaton Orbital (or various other well-placed stations), your fun...

The Soapbox: Confessions of a serial hoarder (in MMORPGs)

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How much is too much? To some, that might seem like a reasonable question. But I knew. I knew. There is no such thing as...

Perfect Ten: Major MMO expansions and updates to expect in 2018

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Now that we're almost 1/12th of the way through 2018, it's probably about time to stop anticipating the year and start experiencing it. We...
That is definitely a thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 154: A Prime experiment

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Justin and Bree discuss Trion's big RIFT and Devilian news, Camelot Unchained's $7.5M investment, Darkfall New Dawn's launch, and layoffs for Albion and Elyria, with a mailbag question on what went wrong with WildStar.
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Trademarks, copyrights, and patents: What they mean for you and for video games

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Has the pace of news moved so quickly that we've already forgotten about Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene's statement that video games lack any IP copyright...

ArenaNet donates $3500 to Guild Wars fan whose game copy survived a deadly housefire

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Howasabout another feel-good story? Let's do it! This one comes from Kotaku, which covered a large donation Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet recently made...

The Daily Grind: Is ‘naming-and-shaming’ MMO cheaters a good idea?

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Last week on Reddit, an EVE Online player begged CCP to organize a wall of shame for botters - essentially an online list of...

One Shots: Poppin’ some bubbly

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We are going to kick off this week's exhibition of player screenshots with a few email submissions (yes, some of you still email them...
Try it out.

Destiny 2 admits poor communication on weapons and the latest faction rally

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The first time Destiny 2 ran a faction rally, its mechanics had a problem where players could basically just earn tons of tokens without...

Massively Overthinking: Tackling our hoarding problem in MMORPGs

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By coincidence, two articles in my feeds this past week both centered on video game hoarding - not hoarding the actual games but hoarding...

Battle Bards Episode 113: Anarchy Online

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Alien, quiet, and weird — that’s the Anarchy Online soundtrack for you in a nutshell. For the first episode of 2018, the ever-contentious Battle...

Elder Scrolls Online previews Dragon Bones’ Orc-themed Scalecaller Peak dungeon

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If you haven't checked out the Dragon Bones DLC on Elder Scrolls Online's test server in person yet, you should at least take a...

Destiny 2 players erupt over token throttling bugs

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Another day, another Destiny 2 subreddit meltdown, and it's not over the Eververse cash shop, holiday items, or lockboxes this time. Redditors report a multitude...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 153: It’s a whole New World

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW, DDO, New World, RIFT, Elite, and ArcheAge, with a mailbag question on easing into full-scale MMO sandboxes.

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