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 movie transmog items just ask you to log in
Are you excited about the upcoming World of Warcraft tie-in with the film? Are you annoyed because you're going to have to buy a...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about NPC party members in MMORPGs?
I've been thinking a lot about classic Guild Wars lately -- the anniversary always does this to me. And one of my favorite parts...
World of Warcraft fan mods the restoration of Blood Elf zone Quel’Thalas
All hail the modders, doing bizarre things for our fun! Today's modding hero is a World of Warcraft fan named Hayven, whose YouTube video is...
RIFT has a new reward system just for subscribers
If you haven't gotten the message lately, Trion Worlds is pushing very hard to encourage RIFT players to subscribe up with patron status. The...
Empyrean is building ‘MMOs you can beat’
Empyrean Interactive is coining a new acronym this season: PCA, which stands for persistent cooperative adventure, a "radically different" take on the MMO genre.
Studio...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV could use some Merit Points
The cross-class system in Final Fantasy XIV is not good. It functions, yes, but the mixing and matching of abilities from other classes is...
Nostalrius team surveys community about a World of Warcraft legacy ruleset
As we've been reporting, the team from the shuttered Nostalrius World of Warcraft emulator has been appointed as "ambassadors" of a sort to represent...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite type of grind in an MMORPG?
Grind is not a thing people generally love in MMORPGs, but what's actually considered to be grind varies wildly from player to player. You...
Get a look at World of Warcraft’s new Stormwind park
Has the creation of a park in an MMORPG ever caused such excitement?
When World of Warcraft: Legion arrives at the end of August, it...
Guild Chat: How to reacclimate when coming back to EVE Online
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the space in which I get together with the MOP commenters to help a reader in need...
One Shots: Slipping between shadows
I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...
The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live
The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...
WildStar announces new class/race combos
The WildStar developers have heard the community's desire for additional class/race combinations in the game, and as a result Carbine is working on getting...
WoW Factor: Content gaps, polish, and the Legion release date
The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...
EVE Online Capsuleer Day birthday video, unexpected freebie weekend restrictions
Even as trial players are pouring into EVE Online to enjoy the free weekend on Steam, some are having difficulty taking advantage of this...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios be involved in modding their games’ subreddits?
Reddit is a complicated place with more than its fair share of drama, and that drama spills over into the gaming space from time...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2016: Activision-Blizzard posts results ahead of WoW Legion, Overwatch
Activision-Blizzard's first quarter 2016 financial report just hit the internet, and the company is declaring "better-than-expected" financial results.
"For the quarter ended March 31, 2016,...
Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs
"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper."
That might well...
China gets the Warcraft movie two days before everyone else
Want to be among the first in the world to see the Warcraft feature film? Then you best be buying a ticket to China....
EVE Online player uses patch trick to dominate the PLEX market
Among the patch notes for EVE Online's recent Citadel expansion release was a fairly innocuous increase in the fees for listing items on the in-game...
