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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One Shots: Jedi to the max
Are you all the Jedi you could possibly be? If not, then subscribe to our exclusive six-week course, where we'll teach you such advanced...
PAX East 2016: Final Fantasy XIV answers questions and reveals the Palace of the Dead
If you think you've seen everything that Final Fantasy XIV has in its bag of tricks, the game's Q&A panel at PAX yesterday made it clear...
The Daily Grind: Are you ever sad when a long-awaited MMORPG expansion arrives?
We've been joking about Lord of the Rings Online never getting to Gondor, never mind Mordor, that I've become super sad that it's actually...
EVE Fanfest 2016: Project Nova will include territorial warfare, link with EVE
At this week's EVE Fanfest 2016, CCP Games revealed its new PC first person shooter Project Nova that has risen from the ashes of console FPS DUST...
The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO dungeons?
If a theme has emerged in my 2016 gaming habits so far, it has to be my renewed love of running dungeons in MMORPGs....
EVE Fanfest 2016: EVE Valkyrie launching a carrier assault later this spring
The virtual reality EVE Valkyrie is striving to prove that it's not just a passing fad. The starship dogfighting game announced that it's prepping...
Perfect Ten: What I loved about Dungeons and Dragons Online
Dungeons and Dragons Online was a very strange game at first glance.
Ten years ago, I ventured into Stormreach with no more motivation than a longstanding...
EVE Fanfest 2016: Industrial citadels and drilling platforms in EVE Online
EVE Online's Citadel expansion goes live in just a few days on April 27th, opening the floodgates on a new era of space colonisation for players....
Vanilla WoW petition hits 200K signatures, invokes Mark Kern
Fans have now propelled the Nostalrius petition asking Blizzard to reconsider World of Warcraft vanilla servers to over 200,000 signatures, which means that former...
The Daily Grind: Are we ever going to see a WoW-killer-killer?
On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I tried to answer a question from a listener named Kenny, who proposed that we consider...
EverQuesting: Daybreak is on the right side of the MMORPG legacy server debate
WoW is stupid. Yes, I said it. World of Warcraft is dumb. More accurately, I should say Blizzard is stupid. The reason? Its stance...
EVE Fanfest 2016: Project Nova rises from DUST 514’s ashes
On May 14th 2013, CCP Games optimistically launched its first attempt to penetrate the console & shooter markets with DUST 514. The game had...
EVE Fanfest 2016: EVE Mobile coming to Android and iOS
Remember back in 2013 when Jon Lander announced plans for an EVE Online mobile tie-in with the immortal words, "This time next year, you'll have EVE Mobile in...
EVE Fanfest 2016: EVE Online’s Citadel trailer, CSM results, and stream
Videos and news bits are trickling in from this year's EVE Fanfest, where CCP has just shown a video feature tour of the Citadel expansion that...
EVE Fanfest 2016: Full cross-platform play is planned for EVE: Valkyrie
EVE: Valkyrie will eventually be playable fully cross-platform, according to a presentation given today during EVE Fanfest 2016. The game has already launched on the...
Jukebox Heroes: Six cover songs of popular MMO tunes
There's a dedicated subcommunity of video game music afficionados out there that love these soundtracks so much that they devote considerable effort to producing...
Blizzard begins distributing Overwatch’s digital goodies
If you haven't noticed, Blizzard sure does love to cross-promote its games through special edition extras. Encouraging players to explore the entire Blizzard ecosystem...
Battle Bards Episode 73: Spooky & Magical II
By popular demand -- which you should read as "Syl's imperial fiat" -- the Battle Bards podcast is returning to the fertile musical landscape of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 61: Update-o-rama!
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Ascent, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, RIFT, and LOTRO, plus mailbag questions on The Secret World and WoW killers.
CSE’s Mark Jacobs explains Camelot Unchained’s beta delay
On its livestream this afternoon, Camelot Unchained boss Mark Jacobs told backers and watchers that technical issues have delayed the start of beta, which was...
