‘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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Working As Intended: The top 10 hot tubs in MMORPGs
It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...
April Fools’ Day 2024 events and gags from around the MMORPG world
Welcome to weird MMORPG game mode day! I mean, April Fools' Day - not that we're sorry a lot of the "pranks" have become...
The MOP Up: Fractured Veil allows for PvE-only servers
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One's a multiplayer racing open world-ish title, the other is a cute and emotive social multiplayer game, yet both The Crew Motorfest and Sky:...
Diablo IV arrives to Game Pass subscribers, Diablo III reruns Forbidden Archives April 12
This week brought the marquee event that supporters of Microsoft's multi-billion dollar buyout of Activision-Blizzard were likely eager for: Diablo IV is now available...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its 10th anniversary in Orc-land
I have to give some serious credit to ZeniMax: This studio isn't letting Elder Scrolls Online's 10th anniversary go by with nothing more than...
Vague Patch Notes: The limits of data in MMORPGs
Yesterday, I went on a rant about data. As you probably guessed from the various columns wherein I attempt to use data to analyze...
Elite Dangerous previews visual updates of summer’s Powerplay 2.0 while promising more details later
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Hostile NCsoft shareholder meeting reveals ArenaNet is working on Guild Wars 3
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Here's one of the amazing new pieces of information that Guild Wars 2's designers divined during the most recent WvW restructuring tests: Long queues...
The Stream Team: Achievement hunting for Guild Wars 2 XP
Massively OP's MJ is doWN to the last mastery before she can finally ride her own skyscale throughout Guild Wars 2. But the XP...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Scions of Ithelia DLC is live on Xbox and PlayStation consoles
Console players are finally getting their spring treat from The Elder Scrolls Online, as the Scions of Ithelia DLC and update 41 are finally...
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OK, so the idea of Massively OP's MJ speeding through any story is pretty far-fetched, especially through the voiced quest updates in Elder Scrolls...
One Shots: One corgi to rule them all
Deep in the fires of Mt. Doom, a terrible and mighty creation is being forged. One that if, left unchecked and unpetted, could spell...
Elder Scrolls Online crosses $2B in customer spending, revives Jester’s Festival for April Fools’ day
When you look at the high risk of making and running MMORPG, a reasonable question arises: Why would any studio undertake such a project?...
Guild Wars 2 releases more profession balancing tweaks as players offer to train noobs to raid
Guild Wars 2's patch this week is such a hodgepodge of tweaks and bufferonis that we hardly know where to begin. It touches on...
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ArenaNet is cracking down on bot abuse in Classic Guild Wars PvP
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