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: Minions of Mirth
While large teams with big budgets and studios backing them are expected to push out smash hit MMORPGs, to me it's always vastly more...
WoW Factor: Why Legion 2 wouldn’t win back the World of Warcraft crowd
Let's talk about fan expectations and naked fanservice for a bit. In fact, let's start with the Power Nine from Magic: the Gathering, and...
World of Warcraft Classic will allow up to 50 characters, regardless of your existing character count
Imagine for a moment that you have 50 max-level characters in World of Warcraft right now. However, you also need to have 50 alts in World of...
Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs
The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2019: Revenue has dropped by nearly a quarter since last quarter
It's now pretty clear that Activision-Blizzard's days of limitless growth and endless record-setting are over, at least for now, as the company's now-released financials...
Final Fantasy XIV is giving away Heavensward for free until June 27
If you've been dabbling in Final Fantasy XIV but have been vacillating on whether you want to shell out for the expansions just yet,...
Camelot Unchained discusses dev tools, art and animation progress in latest newsletter
Camelot Unchained's end-of-April newsletter has arrived, and as always it's stuffed to the brim with plenty of behind-the-scenes info on the game's development progress....
Vindictus releases the gun witch Eira and launches the Golden Time event
Vindictus is about to get a lot more shooty and portal magic-y. Eira the Void Witch, the pistol-toting temporal magic user that was first...
EVE Online begins CSM14 election season as Chinese corp plots takeover of Tranquility
Following the drama surrounding the EVE Online's Council of Stellar Management during its 13th season - which was capped off with the very public...
Blizzard decides to skip Gamescom 2019 as part of cost-cutting efforts
The con circuit has always been a sort of expected course for games companies to run, like the Tour de France except with less...
TERA is turning seven – here’s what it’s getting you for the occasion
Wow, it's hard to believe TERA is turning seven in May, but here we are. En Masse has plenty of fun planned too, including...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 needs real housing
There is no shortage of things to do in Guild Wars 2. Wandering around the world and exploring is a joy, and players are...
EVE Online preps 16th anniversary celebrations and 64-bit client mass test
EVE Online is gearing up for its sweet sixteen, and you're invited to the loot piñata.
"We’re super happy to announce that from May 2nd...
Not So Massively: Yearning for an MMO future free of loot
Throughout all of the Drama over Anthem's loot issues, I've just been rolling my eyes. Not because I think Bioware screwed up -- arguably...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – side stories, part two
If I'm being entirely honest, I could probably stretch this series out even further from having two columns on side stories in Final Fantasy...
World of Warcraft backpedals on recent banwave
Blizzard has announced that it's rolling back its recent wave of suspensions for World of Warcraft accounts found to be operating third-party software "that...
The Daily Grind: How do you explain MMORPGs to non-gamers?
Last week, I did an interview trying to explain exactly what was going on with the whole City of Heroes drama. Almost immediately, the...
Final Fantasy XIV is retiring its GARO collaboration with patch 5.1
The GARO collaboration with Final Fantasy XIV has lasted a long while. It's still ongoing right now, even; if you want to pick up the...
One Shots: Cruising in the Batmobile
Nothing gives me genre whiplash more than seeing technology that's vastly more advanced from anything in our world existing alongside of an otherwise-medieval realm....
World of Warcraft Classic will be using up-to-date items, but not all items at once
Itemization is more of an issue than you might think of in World of Warcraft: Classic. Sure, there's a pretty clear progression of gear in...
