‘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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Diablo III’s next season launches Friday with skill tree-granting altars
The end of January saw public testing of Diablo III's Season 28 get underway, but if you missed that testing window then you can...
The Elder Scrolls Online previews Necrom’s Arcanist class in action in latest video
We're still plucking out the juicy bits from IGN's Fanfest trailerpalooza from last weekend (juicy to us and our readers, anyway), which brings us...
One Shots: Flash, flash, hundred-yard dash
Rumor is, if you can run fast enough, you can accomplish just about anything. Go back in time? Sure. Quick dry jeans? Definitely. Continually...
Guild Wars 2 disables, then re-enables, its WvW objective scaling rewards system during a live test
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 wanted to run a test for WvW that involved an objective scaling rewards system that was intended to...
The Daily Grind: How much homework do you do coming into a new MMO?
Recently, I've re-entered the world of Guild Wars 2 after a quite lengthy absence. But I've done it in a different way than before,...
Blizzard’s Mike Ybarra stuns devs with demoralizing bonus-slashing and return-to-work meeting
Earlier this week, we noted that Activision-Blizzard was preparing to end more of its COVID-induced work-from-home policies and that some of its studios that...
Destiny 2 runs down Lightfall’s new ritual weapon, character boosts, interactive trailer, and 24-hour maintenance
Lightfall looms ever closer to the horizon of Destiny 2, which naturally means that the game's weekly newsletter is once more all about the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite biome type in MMOs?
A while back, Pantheon posted some slides for some of its in-production biome types that caught my attention. Obviously, the mockups are slick, and...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Destiny 2 hypes up the features, characters, and setting of the Lightfall expansion in latest ‘vidoc’
Whether you call it a vidoc, a bigger trailer, or a video game infomercial, the devs of Destiny 2 are gearing up for the...
Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space
Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
Guild Wars 2 music video is nominated for a Best Original Song at the G.A.N.G. awards
Does praise for Guild Wars 2's soundtrack often go unsung in the gaming industry? That may well change this season thanks to an End...
Tamriel Infinium: How Elder Scrolls Online’s quests go above and beyond the MMO norm
There are some MMOs you play because of and some you play in spite of, if you catch my drift. These titles have great...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
Bungie says it won’t promote AI-generated Destiny 2 fan art
Regular readers of Destiny 2's weekly newsletter know that one of the features is a highlight of player-created work, whether it's videos or fan...
NCsoft Q4 2022: Guild Wars 2 had a great 2022, Throne & Liberty is still launching by summer
There's good news and bad news in the Q4 2022 and FY 2022 financial report, and the bad news might help explain why NCsoft...
The Stream Team: Investigating Guild Wars 2’s Sky Pirates
Massively OP's MJ does things backwards. First she saw the end of Marjory Delaqua's story in Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons, and now...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 409: All aboard the Tyria train
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's new roadmap, Blizzard's financials, the latest Microsoft ABK drama, and earthquake relief, with adventures in LOTRO and GW2, plus mailbag topics on Gloria Victis and our failed MMO character concepts.
Destiny 2 plots adjustments to seasons, challenge, and activities to fight against perceived predictability
According to game director Joe Blackburn, Destiny 2 updates have become a bit too consistent, leading to the sense that updates are predictable and...
Guild Wars 2’s patch adds WvW incentives, cosmetics randomizer, and class balancing
As promised, Guild Wars 2's class balancing update has arrived, and depending on which elite spec play you will love, hate, or love and...
