‘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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Guild Wars 2 introduces a ‘leisurely’ version of the Mad King’s Clock Tower for Halloween
As promised, Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King is live today across Tyria, bringing new and old content 'round for the Halloween...
Choose My Adventure: Amrine Excavation and other flail-based New World adventures
I wasn't sure that I was going to be playing with others this week in New World. That's not to suggest that I've been...
Elite Dangerous’ Frontier Developments readies a round of layoffs
It certainly seems like we've in the thick of layoff season right now, what with Epic Games, Twitch, and Cryptic all letting personnel go...
Elite Dangerous Update 17 brings forth another laundry list of fixes and continued tease of ‘louder rumbling’
“The rumbling got quieter and then much, much louder," read the not-very-jumbled word jumble in Elite: Dangerous' timing announcement for Update 17. That jumble...
EverQuest, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, and more fundraise for this year’s Extra Life push
It's the season for the annual push by gamers and game studios to support Extra Life, the charity that raises money for Children's Miracle...
Fight or Kite: Should PvPers return for New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion?
All the talk going on around me about New World and its first paid expansion has caught my attention. There's been office chat discussing...
Bethsoft’s Pete Hines is retiring after 24 years to ‘enjoy life’
The gaming industry is losing another big name this week - and this one's actually a loss. In the same seven-day span that saw...
The MOP Up: Aion Classic finally gets its delicious revenge
Aion Classic unleashed Update 2.4: Stormwing's Revenge on its servers this past week: "Get ready to battle Stormwing and defeat Yamennes to loot heroic...
Elite Dangerous outlines patch timing and teases October 16’s Update 17
What's coming in Update 17 for Elite: Dangerous? We don't know yet; Frontier Developments always puts out the patch notes on the day of...
The Stream Team: Directly reliving Destiny 2’s past with a visit to Shadowkeep
Last time MOP's Chris streamed Destiny 2, he had gone through the timeline reflections missions to see if they contextualized the events of the...
Destiny 2 teases next week’s Festival of the Lost Halloween event
Regular players of Destiny 2 are likely familiar with the Festival of the Lost, the looter shooter's annual Halloween celebration. so word of its...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best horror content?
A Friday the 13th doesn't come around in October very often, but it sure is a fun day to talk horror in MMOs. No,...
Elder Scrolls Online has a fast-paced Tales of Tribute deck in the works
While Elder Scrolls Online's nested card game, Tales of Tribute, hasn't exactly been the barnstormer that ZeniMax hoped it would become, it has its...
Guild Wars 2’s Halloween events return once again on October 17
"When is Guild Wars 2's Halloween event coming out?" my kids asked me last week.
"Probably not next week, or we'd already have a teaser...
The Crew Motorfest is running another five-hour free trial on all platforms
Just a couple of weeks ago, Ubisoft was crowing about the launch of The Crew Motorfest, the third installment in its long-running multiplayer racing...
The Elder Scrolls Online shares tips for success in the upcoming Endless Archive
So are you ready to take on endless waves of enemies in The Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming Endless Archive content? It's coming out on...
Perfect Ten: The interesting features EverQuest Next promised before it was canceled
After way, way too long, it looks like an EverQuest 3 may be in the works after all. It's been rumored for years, of...
The Stream Team: Mabon’s Fate in Guild Wars 2
Mabon is a mysterious figure in Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure, and now he's mysteriously vanished. After Massively OP's MJ found all...
The Stream Team: Storming the castle dungeon in Elder Scrolls Online
"Have fun storming the castle!" ranks among Massively OP's MJ's all-time favorite lines. So when she can enact it in a game, she's quite...
Vitae Aeternum: Rise of the Angry Earth mounts and flail are the lift New World needed
New World's first expansion is here, although if I'm being honest it feels more like the second expansion, considering the scale of the Brimstone...
