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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Blizzard and Netease will be cranking out games together at least until 2023
Chinese gaming giant Netease has popped up in the news over and over this past year. It poured money into SpatialOS and is building...
World of Warcraft smacks Monks, Shamans, and Druids with PvP nerfs
To help bring some fairness and balance to the relentless, never-ending warfare of World of Warcraft, the folks at Blizzard have recently made some...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2019
With nearly all of our end-of-2018 content finally and blissfully behind us - seriously, I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when it's...
More MMOs you’ve never heard of: PlaneShift, Stendhal, Ashen Empires, Zezenia, and Project Diaspora
Think you've seen it all and played it all in regards to MMORPGs? There's always a lot of smaller and lesser-known games out there,...
Excelsior! Bereft Blizzard boasts big boost with stupendous Stan Lee stand-in wandering World of Warcraft!
Greetings, heroes of Azeroth! Many MMO and other multiplayer titles mourned the much-missed and many-storied media mogul Stan Lee when he passed away in...
Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime will leave planned advisory role in April
Back in October, Blizzard announced that Mike Morhaime was stepping down as president of the company after 27 years working there. While World of...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs to watch in 2018
Love it or hate it, MMOs are going mobile in ever-increasing numbers. Last year saw a crop of acclaimed titles making their way to...
Richard Bartle reveals the secrets and history of MUDs
If you know even a little bit about the history of the MMORPG genre, you'll be aware that these games didn't start with World...
EVE Online releases its December 2018 economic report
Forget space adventures, who'd like to look at some spreadsheets? Yes, it's time for the monthly official EVE Online economic report, breaking down all of...
The best Massively OP MMO community polls of 2018
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don’t often get from our other articles - at least when they aren’t being brigaded...
Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.5, A Requiem for Heroes, is live today
The conclusion of Final Fantasy XIV's expansion story starts today with the launch of patch 4.5, A Requiem for Heroes. Players can log in...
EVE Evolved: Seven of the best EVE Online fan videos of all time
EVE Online has a long history of incredible cinematics and player-made videos, but that legacy has somewhat fallen by the wayside in recent years....
Ultima Online announces a year of high seas content, starting with publish 104: Rising Tide
A week ago, I finally sat down and cleaned out my ancient Ultima Online account, picking up a thousand items from my house and...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s 2019 in preview
It's the day before the last patch of the Stormblood series in Final Fantasy XIV... technically. Yes, you can argue (correctly) that we'll actually...
Final Fantasy XIV posts the patch notes for patch 4.5, A Requiem for Heroes
Fans of Final Fantasy XIV will have to deal with not playing the game today, as maintenance extends throughout today and into tomorrow. But you can...
Camelot Unchained is building a new siege scenario test map as backer siege testing continues
Last week, I saw some commenters discussing how Camelot Unchained had nothing to show from years of development, but of course, testers know better....
The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2018?
So here's a fun-slash-depressing annual Daily Grind we've been running for the past few years thanks to DK, who originally proposed it.
The knee-jerk answer,...
Global Chat: Little things that add up to a great MMO
Ever find yourself running down a list of "little things" that impress you and keep you busy in an MMO when you're trying to...
One Shots: Bullet hell
If you ever find yourself staring down an impossible spray of projectiles and energy blasts flying every which way and you freeze like a...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2018
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
