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 Daily Grind: How do you feel about ideas like the cottage rule and class fantasy in MMO design?
Who among our readers played City of Heroes and remembers the cottage rule? The idea was that developers were reluctant to change the fundamentals...
Massively Overthinking: Thoughts on the holy trinity in MMOs
One of MOP's bright new columnists, Tyler Edwards, blogs over at Superior Realities, and he recently brought to my attention his pieces on the...
Final Fantasy XI introduces monthly Records of Eminence objectives with its April update
There's a lot of stuff to be gotten from Final Fantasy XI's Records of Eminence, but a lot of what you're getting amounts to currency...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida is taking fan feedback into account for Hrothgar and Viera
There are a lot of people excited to play Viera and Hrothgar in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. There are also a lot of people...
Remember Booty Bay in World of Warcraft? It’s back! In Sims 4 form!
If you've ever wandered through Booty Bay in World of Warcraft and thought that it'd be much cooler if the town featured a bunch of...
Desert Oasis: Reframing player perceptions of Pearl Abyss’ MMO Black Desert
Hello and welcome to our revival of the Black Desert column! The Desert Nomad decided it was time to reroll for the new meta, and...
The Daily Grind: What visuals do you wish you could hide in MMOs?
Last week World of Warcraft made some aspiring nudists happy by announcing that it was going to let players hide pretty much every piece...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 213: FFXIV’s first world problems
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's controversial reveals, WoW level squish, Albion Online F2P, Glitch, Age of Conan, and Google Stadia, with adventures in Trove, SWG, Starmourn, LOTRO, and Rock Band, and mailbag letter on feeling perpetually behind in MMOs.
Final Fantasy XIV prepares for the third expansion with patch 4.56
We know that the third expansion of Final Fantasy XIV is sending us into the Light-suffused First, a chance for us to do our best...
The Daily Grind: What are you looking forward to the most in WoW Classic?
After all the PR mishaps and layoffs Blizzard's had since last fall's BlizzCon, I wouldn't have been too surprised to see the company delay...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to the Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival
So we've now had our final fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV, and for heaven's sake we managed to get one big hype-derailing moment...
Camelot Unchained seeks to blow up a castle built with 9 million blocks
Show of hands: Who here played one of the Sim City games? And of those players, whose first impulse when firing up said game...
The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMO to make you feel like a kid again?
Last month on /r/mmorpg, there was a thread about finding MMOs that will make you feel like a kid again. You can probably guess...
Jukebox Heroes: Rappelz’ soundtrack
When you cover a metric ton of MMOs and other related games professionally, it becomes an interesting task to keep them all straight in...
EVEsterdam 2019: EVE players intercept Triglavian war plans
The EVE Online community was surprised recently when billboards across the game were hacked and displayed a threatening video from the Triglavian Collective, a...
FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Travel to the First with Hrothgar and Dancers
The third and final Final Fantasy XIV fan festival for Shadowbringers kicked off on Friday evening in by North American time schedules. We even...
EVEsterdam 2019: EVE Online explorer visits every star system without being killed
When people say that EVE Online is a game that lets you make your own path, they aren't kidding. While CCP Games builds gameplay...
FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Liveblog of the opening keynote
Here we are at long last. If you're anything like me, you've been looking forward to this event since Final Fantasy XIV first delivered...
En Masse announces TERA Reloaded on console and spring Twitch Prime promo
Wow, so here comes TERA on a Friday with a big announcement: En Masse has announced TERA Reloaded for console, further catching Xbox One...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part four: Story
The fun thing about bringing up the story of World of Warcraft is that you inevitably have some folks who will immediately crop up and claim...
