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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.

Halloween events in Path of Exile, Master X Master, RIFT, EverQuest, Ultima Online, and AQ3D

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It's almost a full-time job to stay on top of all of the MMO and MOBA Halloween events popping up all over the place!...

Camelot Unchained builds boats for beta

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A diverse smattering of projects kept the Camelot Unchained team busy this past week, per the game's newsletter report. It sounds as though players...
THRILLER NIGHT

Blizzard sues alleged Overwatch clone, bans World of Warcraft cheaters

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Gone are the days when Chinese companies could get away with ripping off games left and right: Blizzard is going after another one of...
Some day, I will be good about screenshots. That day is not today.

Choose My Adventure: Map-based antics in Guild Wars 2

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One of the points of the polls and discussions for Guild Wars 2 the other week was that while I could focus on either...
And sometimes, it's all about winning.

Massively Overthinking: Three-way RvR and ‘fair’ PvP in modern MMOs

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MOP reader Sally Bowls is on a roll with the good questions lately! She lobbed us one this past weekend that seems a good...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: Why no one should recommend World of Warcraft ever

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Last week, MOP's Justin (friend to man and beast alike) posted his list of MMOs he would recommend people play. It was a pretty...
Really studying the heck out of a skull.

World of Warcraft Demon Hunter solos normal Gul’dan

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A Demon Hunter should be able to kill demons. That's their one job description, and so it should be no surprise that World of...
How are you not playing this on PC in the first place?

Naoki Yoshida apologizes for Final Fantasy XIV housing mess, outlines future plans

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If you missed this particular bit of drama, here's the TL;DR recap. Final Fantasy XIV releases patch 4.1, which includes the new housing wards....
Pet action.

Final Fantasy XI’s October update improves gear purchasing and skillchains

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You would think that if you've been playing Final Fantasy XI long enough to care about skillchains, you would probably have memorized the various...
Why must you disappoint hopes?

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV has a serious housing problem for basically no reason

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Patch 4.1 arrived in Final Fantasy XIV, and the Shirogane housing rush came and went exactly how everyone familiar with the game had been...
Everyone comes to our house.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 139: Catching up with Legends of Aria

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Justin and Bree are joined by Legends of Aria's Derek Brinkmann to chat about alpha; then they discuss Guild Wars 2's waypoint sales, SWTOR's merges, the WoW expansion, and Shroud of the Avatar's delay, with a mailbag question on lockbox gambling.

Here’s the in-game swag you’re getting with a BlizzCon virtual ticket (including WoW mounts!)

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How many of you buy the BlizzCon virtual ticket as much for the in-game swag as for the actual streams? Even if not, you're...

Fractured introduces its complex horizontal leveling system

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Since this past summer, we've had our eye on Fractured, yet another SpatialOS MMO on the way to hard drives everywhere. If it’s not on...
Smug twit.

Yes, you can still use artifact appearances in future World of Warcraft expansions

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The bankers in Stormwind have seen some stuff, man. You can just see them chilling on their lunch breaks talking about how the Ashbringer...

EVE Vegas 2017: Structure warfare is about to get very cool in EVE Online

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If I had to pick out one thing that EVE Online does exceptionally well, apart from the political betrayals and thefts that regularly grace the gaming...
borf

Final Fantasy XIV launches patch 4.1 (and no, you can’t get a house)

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Yes, Final Fantasy XIV has dropped patch 4.1; if you were trying to get a house, you both already knew that and are already...

The Daily Grind: Why does EVE survive where other PvP sandboxes stumble?

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MOP reader Tobasco da Gama pointed us to a recent Reddit thread about why EVE Online persists, even in a weakened state, where other...
Now the story can be told...

Wisdom of Nym: The key bits of Final Fantasy XIV’s 4.1 patch notes

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Here we are, folks, staring down the barrel of the latest major patch. If you're feeling a minor set of trepidation simply because that...

The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Taiwan meet-and-greet (October 8, 2017)

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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...

EVE Vegas 2017: Pirate factions will hunt you down in new EVE PvE

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If your experience with EVE Online's PvE is of grinding through waves of predictable NPC pirates firing space pea shooters at you, get ready...

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