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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One Shots: Officially Sanctioned Sunday Afternoon Nap Hour
Shh.
Shhhhhhhh.
Do not, under any circumstances, make a sound during Officially Sanctioned Sunday Afternoon Nap Hour. Some of us take it very, very seriously and...
Lawful Neutral: Is it safe to play on City of Heroes’ inevitable rogue servers?
You CAN play on the City of Heroes rogue servers you're about to see springing up. But should you? Our law columnist looks into the legalities of the City of Heroes emulation situation.
Plan trade routes and share ship fittings with the EVE Online Workbench
Whether you're a space truckin' sort, a player that likes to hop in to Abyssal Deadspace, or one of those Capsuleers looking to start...
Perfect Ten: MMOs for puzzle lovers
Ever find yourself complaining that all of the PvE content in your MMO is nothing but shooting something in the face or chopping down...
EVE Online’s CCP Games suggests the real-life politician it banned for insider trading might not be guilty after all
Earlier this month, we covered an emerging scandal in EVE Online: CCP Games had announced that it had removed a member of the current...
World of Warcraft updates companion app with guild and community chat and calendars
If you guys do, in fact, have phones, you are exactly the target audience for the latest update arriving for the companion app for World...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO minipet?
Minipets: Either you love 'em and collect 'em like crazy, or you don't care for 'em and resent that I've been shortening "them" for...
World of Warcraft begins testing Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara
Ready, set, test! A week after Blizzard unveiled the full offerings for World of Warcraft's next major content update, the studio rolled the 7.1...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 216: Star Wars frenzy
Justin and Bree discuss big SWTOR expansion news, plus news from WoW, Blizzard, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, TERA, Albion, Blade & Soul, and DDO, with a mailbag question on MMO expansion difficulty.
CCP Games thinks EVE Online is about to make it big in China and Korea
We've previously covered CCP Games' Hilmar Petersson's comments on not giving up after all EVE Online's unsuccessful spinoffs, including most recently Project Nova. But...
Hop behind the wheel of Prince Noctis’s Regalia in Final Fantasy XIV’s latest crossover event
The latest Final Fantasy XIV collaboration event, A Nocturne for Heroes, is revving up to go live tomorrow. Final Fantasy XV's heroic and totes...
Final Fantasy XIV’s North American data center split requires maintenance on April 22
April 23rd is the official date for the split of the two North American data centers for Final Fantasy XIV into three, but players on...
Dark Age of Camelot tests Patch 1.125D, plans on reclaiming abandoned names
There is nothing quite as uniquely exciting as when an old favorite MMORPG gets a meaty patch today. This is indeed what is happening...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood in review – The main scenario
All right. It's all over but the waiting, and that means it's time to start picking apart the Final Fantasy XIV expansion we're now...
Camelot Unchained explains how environmental light and color affects biome creation
Camelot Unchained's newsletter this week is like a lot of the game's newsletters: It shows iterative but forward progress on both the siege battles...
Fan recreates classic Guild Wars’ Ascalon City in RPG Maker
Remaking your favorite online world in a different program seems to be a hobby of some fans, which is why we get (for example)...
Final Fantasy XI kicks off its annual Egg Hunt Egg-stravaganza on April 15
It's almost time for the denizens of Vana'diel to run around desperately hoping to find a set of eggs that spell out important words...
The MOP Up: Grab your Harry Potter nickname now!
When Harry Potter: Wizards Unite arrives later this year, by which name will you be known and feared? Lord Scooby? Mr. Cheddar? Fluffybutticus? The...
Battle Bards Episode 142: Sunrise, sunset
In MMORPGs across the world, days are beginning and days are ending — and with them come the catharsis of the sunrise and sunset....
One Shots: Band practice went long today
Fred and Wilma's parents always wondered what happened to them. One day they stayed after school for a little extra band practice... and they...
