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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.

Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017

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Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...

Ashes of Creation handles world persistence and local economies in its own fashion

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With a rapidly expanding studio and Alpha One coming later this year, Ashes of Creation is shaping up to be one of the great...

New Ultima Online book gathers developer and player interviews to document oral history

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Old-school MMORPG players, heads-up for you: If you're a fan of Ultima Online or wanted to hear more about the seminal MMORPG after reading...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 177: ArenaNet A-bomb

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Justin and Bree discuss the Guild Wars 2 debacle, Trove, The Sims 3, Camelot Unchained, Warframe, Shroud of the Avatar, Temtem, Final Fantasy XIV, Defiance 2050, and Trion's Marvel Heroes promo, plus a mailbag entry on looter shooters as the future of MMORPGs.

EVE Online launches the Dawn of Liberation event along with its July update today

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EVE Online has a decent-size release up this month - today, in fact, as it's already live. Notably, today's update tweaks Abyss looot drops...
Nice nice, baby.

EVE Online kicks off a new recruitment program on July 11

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More pilots are needed in EVE Online. The game has another patch arriving tomorrow, but it's going to wait another day to introduce a...
Aetherpool!

Wisdom of Nym: Taking a spin in Final Fantasy XIV’s Heaven-on-High

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Heaven-on-High is not quite the same as the Palace of the Dead. That is not surprising; they're different places with different lore and slightly...

EVE Evolved: Improving EVE Online’s organisational tools

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Throughout most of EVE Online's lifetime, players have developed their own third-party applications (and yes, spreadsheets) to help organise and enhance their gameplay. We've...

Jukebox Heroes: Six more groovy tunes from MMOs you’ve never played

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As an MMO music collector, I've gathered some really obscure soundtracks over the years, including ones from games that people don't even remember existing,...

One Shots: My name is Captain Vanity

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As I'm off on vacation this week, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to cull through the previous One Shots comment...
Boom.

EVE Online is simplifying missile rendering to improve performance – the July patch drops this Tuesday

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Missiles are a big deal in EVE Online. There are a variety of ways in which missiles can be helpful and important as a...
This is not a doll.

Final Fantasy XI adds new tiers of gear with an all-mount login campaign

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The latest patch for Final Fantasy XI has gear you might not be able to wear yet. That might sound surprising, what with the...

Pokemon Go’s second anniversary report card sees high marks for content and innovation

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Today is Pokemon Go's second-year anniversary. Last year's report card had to grapple with things like the game's rapid rise and fall as a fad,...
Moth fight.

Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI in review and choosing our next MMO

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Here's the weird part about this week's column: I'm going to tell you, in short, that Final Fantasy XI is still a good game...
Oh gosh why.

The Daily Grind: How early should an MMORPG’s hype cycle begin?

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GIbiz put out an interesting piece this week looking 10 years into the past to see where the buzz was in the game industry...
Go boom.

EVE Online plans a massive missile test for July 4th

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The best way to celebrate July 4th is to fire as many explosives as possible in as many directions as possible. If you would...
catte

The Daily Grind: What MMO is theoretically perfect but fails to click with you?

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Let's talk about Final Fantasy XIV for a minute. This game really frustrates me because, on paper, it has so much of what I'm...
I can stop any time I want.

World of Warcraft is banning ads on the Group Finder moving forward

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Quick question: What is the Group Finder in World of Warcraft intended for? If you answered that it's for finding groups, possibly with an...
Iffy reet.

Final Fantasy XIV unlocks Heaven-on-High with patch 4.35 today

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You could argue that the new Deep Dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV doesn't really deserve the name; you're going up, not down. That means...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG skill system that avoids the ‘illusion of choice’?

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Over the weekend, my husband and I were chatting about playing on a Star Wars Galaxies emulator again, probably the Legends one that people...

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