‘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 launches the Festival of the Four Winds, gives raptors to lowbies, and makes more class tweaks
There's a new update out today for Guild Wars 2 players, and it's got a little something for nearly everybody, whether you're a lowly...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are better with fewer people playing?
In Tyler's longform piece on The Secret World a while back, he said something that leaped out at me: that the game isn't really...
The Stream Team: Chasing killer shadows in Elder Scrolls Online
After assassin shadows kept killing of her Elder Scrolls Online contacts, Massively OP's MJ had to increase the pace her investigation -- which was...
Massively Uplifting: WoW players break barriers, Bungie and ZeniMax raise money to help children
Summer sweetness is not just for corn and watermelon! No, it's for all the kind and generous gestures of of our fellow gamers and...
Elite Dangerous confirms Update 13’s release, fixes crashes, and elaborates on combat bond bug reports
The newest Discovery Scanner newsletter from Elite: Dangerous is out, featuring the usual hodgepodge of informational bits for players of the spaceship sandbox. The...
Bungie reduced direct communication with players over ‘real threats’ to devs
It's becoming clear that Destiny 2 developer Bungie is experiencing a problem with playerbase toxicity - readers will recall that the studio is taking...
The MOP Up: Trove’s Sunrise update arrives on consoles
Trove's new Solarian class is finally available to play on Xbox, Switch and PlayStation, as the Sunrise update landed on those consoles this past...
One Shots: You’ll never be this exalted
For your average farmer or scribe in Guild Wars 2's world, they'll never find themselves in the presence of so much swirly, sparkly awesomeness...
Hands-on with Multiversus: How WB’s new brawler stacks up against Super Smash Bros.
Like most of the readers of this site, I spend the majority of my gaming time in MMORPGs, or I wouldn't be here. But...
Massively Overthinking: Is old-school MMO dungeon-camping ever coming back?
A while ago on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I randomly wound up on the topic of camping in MMOs - not pitching a...
Guild Wars 2’s ArenaNet posts hiring ad for yet another unannounced project
Veteran MMORPG players probably already knew that Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet is working on at least one unannounced project, but we've had a...
Vague Patch Notes: The many flavors of ‘boosting’ in the MMO genre
The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...
Guild Wars 2 previews Mesmer weapon and Warrior banner changes coming August 2
Guild Wars 2 is continuing its efforts to correct some wildly unpopular balance changes made back in June, this time with another patch scheduled...
Elder Scrolls Online takes players on a field trip through the Earthen Root Enclave DLC dungeon
The Elder Scrolls Online is continuing its tour through the features of the upcoming Lost Depths DLC, this time taking players on a little...
Guild Wars 2 plans Festival of the Four Winds for August 1, next WvW restructuring beta for August 12
You knew it was coming since ArenaNet said so in its recent roadmap, but Guild Wars 2's next WvW world restructuring beta now has...
The Stream Team: Attending all the Cantha events in Guild Wars 2
Massively OP's MJ just barely missed getting a Guild Wars 2 turtle egg from the End of Dragons mega raid, so she needs to...
NCsoft Q1 2022: Revenues rise thanks to Lineage W and Guild Wars 2, Throne and Liberty arriving this year
NCsoft's stock may have fallen dramatically over the last year, but its Q1 2022 financial report is chock-full of happy bars thanks to strong...
The Soapbox: Why diversifying your MMO gaming is the smart thing to do
Allow me to indulge in some retrospection for a moment as I sit back on my rocker, squint into the fading afternoon light, and...
Elite Dangerous recounts Lavecon 2022, current community goals, and player-run events
The past couple of newsletters coming out of Elite: Dangerous have been generally tame but no less informative, as the devs have cast spotlights...
Skull and Bones outlines the levels of preparation required before entering combat
Hitting the open seas to hunt down prey to plunder in Skull and Bones is apparently not just as simple as hopping aboard a...
