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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Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
Final Fantasy XIV gets Moo Deng fever as prices for a hippo minion start to climb
The internet is full of flash-in-the-pan moments when a completely innocuous thing suddenly becomes a viral sensation. So it is with a baby pygmy...
Casually Classic: World of Warcraft’s delves have real evergreen potential
Ever since World of Warcraft released back in 2004, there's been an tension in this game between casual, solo play and hardcore group progression. It was...
Ultima Online’s New Legacy will finally launch October 15
If you noticed that Ultima Online's New Legacy stress test came to an end on Tuesday without, you know, an actual date for the...
Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO leveling
We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...
Final Fantasy XIV suspends housing demolition on NA servers in response to Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene hit the United States pretty hard, if you've somehow missed hearing about it. The Final Fantasy XIV team wants to make sure...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions
Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 487: Give me Throne and Liberty
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's launch, the new book on Blizzard, ArcheAge 2's morph into ArcheAge Chronicles, and New World Aeternum's impending release, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO history and games preservation.
Google’s Waze app adds World of Warcraft’s Thrall voice for road navigation
This news story really took me back to the first few years I had a smartphone: Before I even worked for OG Massively, I...
EVE Vanguard drops dev blogs themed around art, lore, and gameplay mechanics
The devs behind EVE Online's FPS module EVE Vanguard have never shied away from talking about the game's wider design philosophy, but now CCP...
Wisdom of Nym: The key takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads update live letter
I can't believe that after we've gone so many different places, at long last, Final Fantasy XIV is going to have Soken do a...
EVE Online’s mobile strategy spin-off, Galaxy Conquest, launches in late October
Sure, EVE Online's seen more spin-offs than you can shake a stick at, but that's the great thing about sticks -- there's always more...
Microsoft’s latest game division layoffs affect nearly 400 Activision-Blizzard employees
The second week of September brought more bad news for game workers in Microsoft, as the company confirmed another 650 layoffs were coming that...
The MOP Up: FFXIV fans party hard at Gamescom 2024
Final Fantasy XIV's European contingent partied hard at the recent Gamescom 2024 -- the first such gathering in five years. The community team reported...
The Stream Team: Let’s talk Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 7.1 update
It's time once more for MOP's Chris and his crew to come together on a comfy digital couch and talk Final Fantasy XIV! Specifically,...
Final Fantasy XIV shows off patch 7.1, Crossroads, including a new alliance raid difficulty and new housing options
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is on its way, with patch 7.1, Crossroads, scheduled for a mid-November launch. As is tradition, producer...
One Shots: Even monsters should brush their teeth
Imaginations being what they are, I've spent perhaps too much time thinking about what sentient monster lives are like when we're not beating the...
Tarisland prepares for Blight Dragon Elegy with a rep-boosting event and more dungeon lore
We still don't know when the Blight Dragon Elegy will be sung by Tarisland beyond sometime in October, but we can probably count Saturday,...
Jason Schreier’s new book blames Activision – and the Titan MMO’s cancelation – for Blizzard’s degradation
When Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced he was stepping down from his 27-year-run at the company back in 2018, he didn't give much of...
Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?
Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...
