‘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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Chaos Theory: The Secret World’s enhanced player experience
Amazing story, awesome cutscenes, phenomenal atmosphere, compelling missions, incredible NPCs... The Secret World definitely has a lot of good things going for it. It...
Flameseeker Chronicles: The Guild Wars 2 legacy
Flameseeker Chronicles is back, now under new management! I can't tell you how thrilled I am to write the fortnightly column about all things...
Director of Design Chris Whiteside leaves Guild Wars 2
Former Guild Wars 2 Director of Design Chris Whiteside has left ArenaNet to pursue other opportunities.
While on a long roadtrip, Whiteside tweeted the news...
The Secret World publishes enhanced player experience patch
If you've ever felt frustrated by The Secret World's high level of combat difficulty, you might want to see what the team has done...
Coleman says there’s ‘no shame in waiting’ to back Crowfall
Holding off on backing Crowfall, even though over a million dollars' worth of players have contributed to the PvP title? J. Todd Coleman says...
Tamriel Infinium: Dealing Elder Scrolls Online justice
When The Elder Scrolls Online launched, many people had high expectations for the game. Of course, given the number of people who loved the...
Guild Wars 2 delays first-person view patch
Today was supposed to be the day that Guild Wars 2 entered the world of first-person views, but alas, it was not meant to be.
ArenaNet Communications...
Crowfall will allow offline skill training
Sampling from the best of both worlds, Crowfall will allow both offline passive and online active skill training for characters.
In a dev update posted...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World experience blurs the lines of reality
When Funcom recently teased an upcoming forum-only event for The Secret World, my interest was immediately piqued. Though we have scant details right now,...
PAX East 2015: Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns storms PAX
It's a huge weekend for Guild Wars 2 at PAX East, as the team is making Heart of Thorns available to the public for...
Crowfall will be powered by Unity 5
The newly released Unity 5 cross-platform game engine will be responsible for driving at least one upcoming title: Crowfall.
The team said that it's been...
Crowfall explains what you can take out of a dying world
By now, most of you know that Crowfall's PvP campaigns will take place on time-limited worlds that will come to a definite end. But...
Strongholds and the Jungle in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
While I was taking my test drive of the Revenant class at ArenaNet's recent press event, I wasn't just playing through old familiar portions of...
Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Revenant
It might be premature, but I'm pretty sure that the Revenant is my favorite profession in Guild Wars 2. And strangely, it's because it...
Couple gets married in Shroud of the Avatar’s first wedding
Shroud of the Avatar isn't even in proper alpha testing yet, but the fantasy title has already been host to its first in-game wedding.
Players...
Ascent arrives on Steam with a discount
The insanely ambitious Ascent: The Space Game may make a new friend or two this week with the space sim arrival on Steam Early...
Guild Wars 2 elaborates on camera improvements
Forget the living world; it may be that finally allowing players to zoom into a first-person view will be the most significant event that's...
The Secret World Q&A covers mission design secrets
Do you ever wonder just what goes into making one of The Secret World's hand-crafted missions? The dev team opened up about the process...
Crowfund: Crowfall easily passes its fundrasing goal
Call it Crowfund. In only a few short days, Crowfall has passed its $800,000 crowdfunding goal -- and there looks to be no end...
Guild Wars 2 rethinks the defiance system for Heart of Thorns
Just when you thought it was safe to enter an expansion jungle, think again. The Guild Wars 2 dev team is hard at work...
