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: Mirrorworld
In this column, we have previously journeyed to lands where you saw not with your eyes, but with your imagination. I speak, of course,...
One Shots: Bow before Zuul!
We've all certainly met plenty of kings, queens, and other rulers in MMOs, and as a greater community, we've come to one unified opinion...
The Daily Grind: What lessons hath WoW Classic taught us?
You might have missed it, but WoW Classic just celebrated its first anniversary this past week. It was a huge and slightly messy launch...
World of Warcraft Classic’s smaller servers are not getting the help they need for the Ahn’Qiraj War Effort
The next phase of World of Warcraft Classic content updates will bring in Naxxramas, which is something you would like to have following the opening of...
Global Chat: New World might be worth the wait
One opinion I've seen echoed across many corners of our community is that New World is actually shaping up to be a pretty decent...
Casual space sandbox CSC aka Crypto Space Commander launches on Steam with a dash of Star Trek
If you yearn for the stars yet are put off by the complexity and coldness of games like Star Citizen and EVE Online, you...
WildStar’s composer creates a brand-new music track for terminally ill player
For those of you who traveled in WildStar's orbit back in the day, you may remember a guy named Avidguru. Avid hosted the WildCast...
Massively Overthinking: How we deal with burning out of MMOs
Back in August, MOP's own Justin wrote a piece on his Bio Break blog about moderation in gaming that resonated with me. He described...
Final Fantasy XI previews the story and battles getting added with its September update
It's just about time for the newest update to Final Fantasy XI, and that also means new story content with the next installment of the...
World of Warcraft drops another Afterlives video, this one on Draka and Maldraxxus
Last week, Blizzard posted the first of its Afterlives videos for its World of Warcraft Shadowlands hype ramp-up - that one covered Uther and...
Final Fantasy XIV serves up a new anniversary story along with more special site updates
Every year, Final Fantasy XIV provides players with a quartet of stories to commemorate its anniversary, and this year is no exception. Indeed, in the...
World of Warcraft is taking several ‘burst cooldowns’ off the global cooldown
Ah, the noble burst cooldown in World of Warcraft! What the heck is that? Well, in short, it's a cooldown you press to boost a...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons WoW Classic is still fun in 2020
WoW Classic just celebrated its first year of operation, and what a year it's been! Back in the summer of 2019, I was rediscovering...
World of Warcraft increases reputation gains all September – time to rep grind!
The ticker on World of Warcraft's site is counting down to Shadowlands' October release -- 54 days and counting at this point. With the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 286: Cantha, Shadowlands, and New World
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons, WoW Shadowlands, New World, Elder Scrolls Online, and Final Fantasy XIV, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, SWTOR, Wurm Online, SWG Legends, and Guild Wars 2, plus reader mail on reviving old zones, recovering from burnout, and Mo himself.
Blizzard plans a book of World of Warcraft fairy tales… but no more scrolls in Shadowlands
So remember how people still blame World of Warcraft's current class design on the old statement of "bring the player, not the class"? That...
Camelot Unchained promises that ‘a game is starting to emerge’
Progress and change are the watchwords of Camelot Unchained this late summer, as Chris Junior - formerly of the RIFT and EverQuest II teams...
SuperData July 2020: Pokemon Go is making all the monies right now
We'd like to think that Niantic is learning a huge lesson from its continuing efforts to making Pokemon Go more accessible: SuperData says it's...
Wisdom of Nym: What does Final Fantasy XIV’s final 5.3 stinger imply?
As above, so below, and as before, so again. Just to make it absolutely clear, even though we did it for last week's column...
World of Warcraft plans more server connections for NA and EU realms
The trend (one might say spree) of realm connections for World of Warcraft rolls on. If you liked being on a nearly empty server? Well,...
