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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New followers are mined out for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
If you'd hoped that the idea of follower missions would go away in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, we're sorry to inform you...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest MMO peripheral you’ve ever seen?
Massively OP is heading to GDC this year, which means we're being deluged by PR from techware and software companies that'll be on site....
Massively Overthinking: MMOs belong in a museum!
Let's talk game preservation. We've been covering MADE's attempt to convince the government to tweak its interpretation of the DMCA to basically allow museums,...
EVE Online announces plans to start retiring items from its in-game store
The problem facing EVE Online's in-game store, according to the most recent development update, was that it was stuffed full of cosmetic items and...
World of Warcraft emulators forge forward in a post-Classic announcement era
Curious about what's going to happen to all of those World of Warcraft legacy emulators with WoW Classic on the way? It doesn't look...
Final Fantasy XIV previews the contents of the upcoming patch 4.25
If you've already done all there is to do in the most recent Final Fantasy XIV patch, you won't be able to say that...
World of Warcraft’s Seething Shore is a new battleground available now
The next expansion for World of Warcraft is going to have a lot of focus on the faction conflict, so why not get geared...
Camelot Unchained has 126 days to get everything ready for Beta 1
One hundred and twenty-six days. That's the current countdown timer reading as Camelot Unchained looks ahead to its July 4th beta launch, and it...
Battle Bards Episode 116: There be dragons
Mighty and majestic, scaly in hide and shrewd of mind, smoking with fury unabated… these are the Battle Bards! Also, dragons. Yes, in today’s...
Ultima Online’s 99th update preps free-to-play conversion, adds new official forums
Before the free-to-play conversion for Ultima Online launches this spring, Broadsword is hard at work updating the early game experience for the newbies and...
SuperData says ‘pay-to-play’ MMOs declined again in January 2018
SuperData published its January recap of the worldwide digital games market this week, and the analytics firm doesn't have much good to say for...
Raph Koster on the ESA’s DMCA battle: ‘Preservation matters’
Remember last week when we covered how the Entertainment Software Association is fighting a proposal to amend the DMCA that would help preserve online...
World of Warcraft has a new PvP talent UI and (possibly) no Zandalari paladins in Battle for Azeroth
It's important to note at this point that World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth has not yet revealed the classes for Zandalari or Dark...
Warcraft movie director says the production experience was ‘traumatic’
During an interview with SyFy about his upcoming movie, Duncan Jones dishes on his experience directing the 2016 Warcraft film based in the universe...
Wisdom of Nym: Mechanical issues for jobs in Final Fantasy XIV, part two
Last week, we covered the mechanical issues for about half of the Final Fantasy XIV job lineup. This week, we're covering the other half....
Final Fantasy XIV brings around another round of Little Ladies’ Day
It's time for another celebration of song and cheer in Final Fantasy XIV as the annual Little Ladies' Day rolls around once more, this...
Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 3
In our third part of this five-part countdown of World of Warcraft's best music (at least, you know, in my opinion), we'll be heading...
One Shots: The Elvish temptation
I'm sorry to have to begin this week's column with a public service announcement, but this has been a long time coming. Friends, beware...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Mac
In 2003, Sony Online Entertainment tried an experiment to reach out to the (then) small-but-growing community of Mac users. The company released EverQuest Macintosh...
The latest World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth build brings even more hints of Mag’har Orcs
We don't yet have all of the allied races promised to us for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth available in the test builds....
