‘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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Elite Dangerous eyes September for its 4.0 version release and console to PC migration effort
The month of September is looking to be a pretty busy one for Elite: Dangerous, assuming Frontier Developments' plans work out as it expects...
The Stream Team: Doing The Dragonguard’s Legacy in Elder Scrolls Online
Last time, Massively OP's MJ ended her last ESO prologue adventure before completing The Cursed Skull. Tonight she'll experience the thrilling conclusion! That also...
Arby’s is bizarrely promoting Guild Wars 2’s 10th anniversary and we’re here for it
We have certainly seen some deeply weird stuff in the MMO industry over the years -- so much so that we have silly end-of-year...
The MOP Up: Closers Online promotes from within its ranks
Two of Closers Online's roster got a major tune-up this past week. Sylvi got promoted to a Prime Agent, while Levia joined the Fatal...
One Shots: The rare high-heeled archer
Not being a professional archer in real life nor that experienced with wearing high heels, I can offer only conjecture that the combination offers...
Global Chat: Will World of Warcraft ever give up its raiding fixation?
MMO blog Kaylriene posted a lengthy article recently examining the state of the non-raiding scene in World of Warcraft while comparing it to Blizzard's...
Destiny 2 hypes up the Season of Plunder and today’s King’s Fall raid
"We have a lot to talk about," opens the weekly address from Destiny 2. With the looter shooter hot off the heels of its...
Global shortages have delayed Elder Scrolls Online’s much-needed EU hardware upgrade well into 2023
It's no secret that The Elder Scrolls Online's weakness has been its server and client performance, and over the last few years, ZeniMax Online...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best way for MMO vets to help new players?
One peculiar quirk of the Guild Wars 2 Steam launch is that there are - how to phrase this kindly - a lot of...
Enter to win a Guild Wars 2 Complete Collection Steam code, courtesy of ANet and MOP
In celebration of the launch of Guild Wars 2 on Steam this week - not to mention the game's 10th birthday! - ArenaNet has...
Guild Wars 2 players have cleared 41M fractals in the last eight years according to infographic
While the crux of the 10 year anniversary for Guild Wars 2 is primarily being marked by a Steam launch and presents for players,...
GeForce NOW adds Guild Wars 2 and Destiny 2 to its streaming lineup
Feeling the urge to take on some new streaming MMOs via GeForce NOW? Good news: The cloud gaming service has just added 13 titles...
Elite Dangerous on 4.0 update and playerbase split: ‘We’re not trying to be done with Odyssey’
After 13 updates to the Odyssey expansion of Elite: Dangerous with still very little joy to be found among players when compared to the...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Rich Lambert admits to ‘some’ crunch at the studio
An interview with ZeniMax Online Studio's Rich Lambert has regrettably confirmed that there is indeed some crunch that occurs while developing and updating Elder...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Snargle needs more inspiration
Last week, Guild Wars 2's Snargle expressed that he needed more inspiration for his, uh, stories. As Massively OP's MJ has no intention of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 386: Lord of Lord of the Rings Online
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's mini-expansion and IP rights, Dual Universe, Mad World, Wrath Classic's prepatch, Alganon's return, and Guild Wars 2's Steam launch, with adventures in LOTRO, CoH, SWGL, and RIFT, plus a mailbag question on Ultima Online New Legacy.
Destiny 2 begins the Season of Plunder today, readies a new raid August 26, unveils Lightfall expansion for February 2023
The showcase presentation for Destiny 2 is well underway and Bungie has been absolutely flooding fans with video previews, update plans, and (sure enough)...
Guild Wars 2 celebrates a decade online with 16M players, Steam launch, and birthday gifts
Guild Wars 2's anniversary hoopla and Steam rollout are underway today as planned, and it's got plenty of gifts in store.
We checked out the...
Rumor: Destiny 2 will unveil a crossover with Fortnite and arrival to EGS during its showcase today
Today at 12:00 p.m. EDT is the day when Destiny 2 will be broadcasting a showcase for content coming to the game among other...
The Elder Scrolls Online locks the Tales of Tribute campaign following an unexpected bug
The arrival of Update 35 for The Elder Scrolls Online should have been an occasion for joy and good fortune, but it seems to...