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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E3 2017: Final Fantasy XIV hosts a Stormblood blood drive
Blood will be spilled in Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. That's almost a given. But blood gets spilled on a regular basis in the real...
Final Fantasy XIV: Trials of Bahamut kicks off on June 16
The destruction wrought by Bahamut in Final Fantasy XIV still has an effect on the game, even though years have passed since the Calamity....
Elder Scrolls Online’s Matt Firor on Morrowind, Dark Age of Camelot, and the old days of MMOs
Ahead of E3, ZeniMax's Matt Firor sat down with Gamasutra for a streamed interview on The Elder Scrolls Online, focused chiefly on Morrowind. It's...
Wisdom of Nym: Your last-chance checklist for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood
Friday, folks. Friday is when Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood enters early access, which means heading to Gyr Abania, heading to Othard, unlocking Red Mage...
EVE Online patches in a new rogue swarm battle on Tuesday
When the newest patch for EVE Online goes live on Tuesday, pilots are going to be facing off against a new sort of threat...
EVE Evolved: The controversy over EVE Online’s capital ship nerfs
EVE Online players have been up in arms this week over sweeping nerfs that are about to hit to high-end farming gameplay styles in the...
The MOP Up: EVE Valkyrie lowers its price point (June 11, 2017)
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...
Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia
Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...
One Shots: Walk of shame
From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast:
Log into a game to do some play testing.
"Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
Camelot Unchained is chasing ‘a game to be proud of, not a minimum viable product’
Is beta one here yet? Nooooope. But Camelot Unchained continues barreling down the track toward it, as outlined in its latest weekly update. City State's...
Final Fantasy XI deploys its June update and starts a new login campaign
Another version update has landed in Final Fantasy XI, but this one is actually relatively small. Yes, surprisingly enough, it's almost just a regular...
EVE Online players own over a quadrillion ISK
EVE Online is often joked about as being "spreadsheets in space," but that doesn't exclude bar charts and other types of graphs in participating...
World of Warcraft Patch 7.2.5 is coming on Tuesday; here’s Blizzard’s survival guide
You only have one more weekend to wait before experiencing the next chapter of World of Warcraft's saga: Blizzard has announced that Patch 7.2.5 will release...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
Final Fantasy XIV reveals its upcoming set of Sabotender-themed weaponry
A lot of new things are arriving in Final Fantasy XIV when Stormblood early access kicks off next week on June 16th. New jobs,...
World of Warcraft fixes a couple of class mount quests, answers Patch 7.2.5 questions
Do you have your class mount in World of Warcraft yet? What, do you have a life or something? Oh, you're putting the blame...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind is the MMO you want and don’t want
I have been head-over-heels for Elder Scrolls Online since One Tamriel, and the Morrowind chapter has only added to my enthusiasm for the game....
Check out Final Fantasy XIV’s Stormblood launch trailer, PvP changes
PvP is changing even more than you might think in Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. It's been discussed before now, but a new article from...
WildStar pumps out prime raids with Patch 1.7.2 today
Is WildStar's raiding scene too tepid and lukewarm for you? Need a shot of danger to spice up that instance run? Well you're in...
