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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CCP has obliquely confirmed it’s working on a brand-new ‘action MMO’
Remember back in December, when the gaming world noticed that CCP's hiring page sought a lead designer to run "a new and highly ambitious...
World of Warcraft admits that it has a serious leveling problem
World of Warcraft's expansion pre-patch kind of broke a lot of stuff that the devs are frantically rushing around trying to fix. One of...
Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
PUBG had a great June thanks to the Steam sale, SuperData says in its latest revenue ranking
SuperData's global revenue report for June 2018 is out, and it's actually not particularly exciting for the summer months as not that much has...
EVE Online sparks a 4,000-strong player battle
EVE Online seems to make the most waves when its community pulls off a major scam, destroys a ship worth way too much real-world...
World of Warcraft’s Communities feature is already running into some serious issues with trolling and harassment
The pre-patch for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth has had some notable problems, and it looks like they extend all the way down...
Perfect Ten: The best expansions for specific MMOs
Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....
New World of Warcraft commercials have fun with Battle for Azeroth’s factional conflict
With Battle for Azeroth only a few weeks away, Blizzard is pulling out all the stops to promote the latest World of Warcraft expansion....
The Daily Grind: Rank the top three housing MMOs ever made
WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II.
If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 179: MMO parenting fails
Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.
The War of Thorns starts today in World of Warcraft
All right, champions, time to run down our list for what we need to get done before World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is...
Former BioWare lead James Ohlen regrets not pushing SWTOR towards ‘Knights of the Old Republic Online’
Earlier this month, BioWare's James Ohlen announced that he was retiring from the company where he'd worked for more than two decades, part of...
World of Warcraft drops lots and lots of dungeon damage in a hotfix
If you're going to read through the latest set of pre-patch hotfixes for World of Warcraft, we hope you enjoy the phrase "damage has...
Final Fantasy XIV plans major revisions to role actions and housing status in 4.4
The official translation for the most recent Final Fantasy XIV live letter is here, and it contains some pretty big changes for the game...
World of Warcraft kicks off Warbringers with a Jaina short
Jaina Proudmoore has been through a lot in the timeline of World of Warcraft alone, but her appearance in the first Warbringers short is...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV gets to hunt some monsters
It hardly needs to be said at this point that the new way of doing things with Final Fantasy XIV's live letters has proven...
Runes of Magic heads to Steam this month
At this point in MMORPG history, it might be hard to find titles that aren't on Steam already. Late to the Valve party, however,...
World of Warcraft: Mexican wrestling, movie cuts, and Battle for Azeroth story spoilers
There is just no way to smoothly mesh this Frankenstein assortment of World of Warcraft stories together, so hang tight -- abrupt transitions ahead.
Why...
EVE Evolved: Four changes to improve EVE Online for new players
A few months ago, I created a new character and ran through the new player experience for an article on how to get new...
The MOP Up: Gnomeland Security orders EQ2’s Tinkerfest (July 22, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
