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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.

Gay ship.

EVE Online patches in more alpha skills on December 5th

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The next patch for EVE Online arrives on December 5th, and it's going to give Alpha players (or "free-to-play players" for those not down...
Every so often, you need to take a look at the banner you're marching under to make sure it still echoes your beliefs.

Wisdom of Nym: Classes, job, and the Armoury System in Final Fantasy XIV

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Here's how this column got written. Last week, I was talking about new potential jobs based on weapons rather than on jobs that have...

Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft

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Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose. The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...

EVE Evolved: Three top tips for staying safe from gankers in EVE Online

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EVE Online is renowned for its cold, harsh universe and relatively few rules, and we've all heard the horror stories over the years of...

One Shots: The rat race

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At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...
Awesome. Very impressive. Great job.

The Soapbox: The long tail of game development isn’t an excuse for gouging

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Don't be too mad at Star Wars: Battlefront II. It's a symptom of a problem, not the cause. I mean, be mad at people...

Camelot Unchained gives thanks for you

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Due to the truncated holiday week, the Camelot Unchained team didn't have as much time to get work done. Still, there was progress made...

Australia turns up the heat on lockboxes

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The controversy over lockboxes and their legal status continues to draw more attention from governments, with Australia now weighing in on the issue. Not...

Massively Overthinking: What are you grateful for in the MMORPG genre?

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I've been keeping a gratitude journal for the first time in my life this month, and it turns out that it's freaking hard. Why?...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017

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Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
From the past.

The Daily Grind: Are you celebrating World of Warcraft’s anniversary?

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Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, but unlike many such years, it's not "just another Thursday" to everyone else. No, this marks the...
What can I say except ''you're welcome''

Perfect Ten: MMO things to be thankful about this year

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It's kind of hard to be thankful this year. Sure, some good things have happened this year, but we also have some things that,...

MassivelyOP’s 2017 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic

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With the new expansion, official vanilla servers, and all of the other news from BlizzCon this year, it's a great time to be a...
A dispatch from the days when I bothered.

World of Warcraft previews the Burning Throne

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Next week, players can start entering the raid that closes out the first storyline ever explored in the World of Warcraft universe. The raid...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master

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Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
A CHAMPION

World of Warcraft kicks off Pilgrim’s Bounty while time-locking its anniversary transmog

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Here's the good news: World of Warcraft has turned on Pilgrim's Bounty once again, which means that you can jump through some holiday achievement...
ROBOT ROCK - wait, can't play that song.

Final Fantasy XIV launches patch 4.15 with music and MOBA gameplay

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It's time to smash up some robots with other robots in Final Fantasy XIV. There's more to it than that, sure, but the core...

The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?

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Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
How does this work? We were barely told.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about future Final Fantasy XIV jobs from weapons

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The Armoury System places a certain unique burden on Final Fantasy XIV. Any new job doesn't just need to have a distinct mechanical identity,...

The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?

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Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...

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