Subscription MMOs are generally those that restrict play to gamers who pay an ongoing fee, usually monthly, though shorter and longer subscriptions, as well as lifetime subs, do exist. Some free-to-play and buy-to-play games also include optional subscriptions.
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The Game Archaeologist: Seven ways EverQuest reshaped MMO history
To many veteran MMO players, the opening horns of EverQuest's score are enough to trigger vivid memories, violent hallucinations, and an unstoppable desire to...
MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best MMO troll
MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for the best MMO troll of 2020. (If you’re wondering what the heck a Golden...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Crafting
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Crafting, which was awarded jointly to Final Fantasy XIV and EverQuest...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Music of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Music of 2020, which last year wasn't directly awarded; instead, we...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020
Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for a...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2020
With so many delays, it's a wonder that anything released this year at all! And while new patches and expansions trickled rather than flowed...
Both sides of EVE Online’s massive World War Bee 2 have agreed to a Christmas truce
Mark the date of Monday, December 21st, 2020 in your calendar if you're the sort of person following EVE Online history as Internet Spaceship...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 302: Your MMO mail, our MMO opinions
Justin and Bree tackle an all-mailbag show, with topics including gaming music and writing mainstream awards, MMO exploration, crafting and EVE Online, vanilla Guild Wars 2, the "one MMO" gamer, MMOs that make you want to play other MMOs, WoW transmog, Raph Koster's brain, and Shadowbane.
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2020
It'd be spectacularly easy -- routine, even -- to look back at the year gone with derision, bitterness, and all sorts of acrid snark,...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future right now heading into 2021?
A Massively Overthinking roundtable about MMOs with bright future that we did a few years ago was so popular that we decided to make...
Pathfinder Online celebrates the holiday season with the Pharasmin Sequences
No, the Pharasmin Sequences isn't the name of some sort of non-euclidean mathematics meant to chart fantastical alternate universes; it's the holiday event that...
Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.4 story
It'd be wrong to say that this patch is our first patch back on the Source in Final Fantasy XIV. We've been splitting our...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Story of the Year
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Story of the Year, which was awarded to the Blizzard boycotts last...
SuperData November 2020: WoW is back on top as PC and digital games sales hit new revenue heights
It's been a boom month this past November for digital games sales. The latest SuperData report finds that digital games have earned $11.5 billion...
World of Warcraft: Classic is surveying players about rolling out The Burning Crusade
The rumors about The Burning Crusade coming to World of Warcraft: Classic were at once rather obvious and also seem all but certain at this point....
Battle Bards Episode 183: Theme parks
This episode is your ticket to the greatest amusement park experience known to gamers! With cotton candy and ride tickets in hand, the Battle...
The MOP Up: Snake, Braddock, and Rambo charge onto World of Tanks Console
World of Tanks' console edition is getting all '80s happy with the launch of season 3 this month. Wargaming announced that players can obtain...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Player Housing
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Player Housing, which was awarded to The Elder Scrolls Online last...
One Shots: Memories in crystal
We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...
Global Chat: Is RIFT the Volvo of MMOs?
If you're not familiar with the blog 24 Hours In, you really should be. The author takes on 24-hour challenges (not consecutively) to investigate...
