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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World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion launches August 30
Blizzard has just announced that World of Warcraft's Legion expansion is launching August 30th.
The standard edition (physical and digital) will run $49.99, while a...
EVE Evolved: What to expect from EVE Fanfest 2016
Ask the average gamer what he knows about EVE Online and after the word "boring" and a spreadsheet joke or two, he'll probably talk about stories...
WildStar’s Steam countdown has begun
Anxiously awaiting WildStar's arrival on Steam? Time to add it to your wishlist and let the stalking begin: The game's Steam page is live...
RuneScape argues why MMO companies should offer classic servers
There's been this thing in the news over the past two weeks about a certain (illegal) fan-run vanilla World of Warcraft server and its...
Camelot Unchained shows off concept art and animation work
Camelot Unchained Producer Tyler Rockwell helms the latest newsletter for the Kickstarted game thanks to a plague that struck the heart of CSE and...
Leaderboard: What was World of Warcraft’s best era or expansion?
With vanilla World of Warcraft on the brain so much lately, I thought it would be fun to take stock of just what people...
The Daily Grind: What are your current MMO goals?
I've noticed that several of my friends have taken to drawing up monthly goals for their MMO sessions, an activity that I've been doing...
Perfect Ten: The odd things I noticed slipping back into Final Fantasy XI
Over the years, I may have spent more money on Final Fantasy XI than any other MMO. It's undoubtedly my first MMO, and it's...
BBC news reports on World of Warcraft Nostalrius server shutdown
The shutdown of Nostalrius is not going quietly into the night. The wake of the World of Warcraft vanilla emulator's closure under the threat...
EVE Online World War Bee update: The Imperium shatters
Recently we've been following the story of the biggest war in gaming history kicking off inside EVE Online and its far-reaching consequences for the EVE...
Global Chat: An MMO to call home
Home. It's what many MMO gamers are looking for in a title: to plant down roots and find a place that exudes belonging. What...
Final Fantasy XIV kicks off the first season of the Feast today
Are you a bad enough dude to be considered the best Dark Knight in Final Fantasy XIV? If so, you probably are any given...
Exploring Camelot Unchained’s siegecraft system
How will sieges work in Camelot Unchained? Massively OP reader and YouTuber CloakingDonkey dug into the last official livestream to pull out the good...
World of Warcraft previews the design of World Quests for Legion
The next expansion for World of Warcraft is trying something different for endgame. It's not the sprawling dailies of Mists of Pandaria, and it's...
WoW hit by DDoS attacks attributed to Lizard Squad [Resolved]
Bad news for players looking to log into World of Warcraft or Blizzard's other online games. The studio shared that it's been weathering DDoS...
EVE Fanfest kicks off next week
CCP couldn't have timed it better if it had tried: This year's EVE Fanfest will kick off in Reykjavik, Iceland, next weekend, smack in...
Working As Intended: Busting up the MMORPG nostalgia party
Last week, a clever Massively OP commenter, SC_Deadline, neatly summed up the ongoing Nostalrius emulator shutdown as Blizzard "bust up someone's nostalgia party," which...
Blizzard to WoW testers: Class orders will not be like garrison missions
If you've paid any attention to World of Warcraft during its present expansion cycle, you are probably aware that Garrisons have not exactly been...
WildStar crosses factional barriers, mulls new class/race combos
What's brewing in WildStar's labs these days? Only a whole vat of changes, that's what.
As a result of Carbine's first DevConnect forum survey, the...
EVE Online plans to add dailies with skill point rewards
Of all the ways to encourage players to engage with an MMO, two of the most controversial are daily quests and login rewards. Used in everything from World of Warcraft...
