The MMO went free - to - play in 2014 a year after launching with a subscription model.
Not exact matches
Still, it's not necessarily a bad thing anymore since the
MMO is dumping subs and
going free - to - play.
Aion, the soon - to - be formerly subscription - based
MMO developed by NCsoft, will follow the footsteps of so many before it and
go free - to - play in Europe on February 28th.
What causes an
mmo to
go from sub to
free isn't the model but the game itself.
I wonder, is this PS3
MMO going to be
free and pay for items / upgrades, or just pay - to - download - or both?
As of today, everyone can dive into the biggest sci - fi
MMO: EVE Online Ascension
goes live, making the game
free to play.
With all the talk about the
MMO genre dying and games
going from subscription to
free, one might think that 2016 would be a year with less games.
The cultural cues the designer puts into the game can have a huge effect — designing a testosterone - drenched game with scads of violence and / or women as sex objects (say, a Bulletstorm or a Duke Nukem Forever) is
going to attract a very different audience, and have very different griefing thresholds, than online components for, say, the Settlers of Catan Xbox Live game or a more casual
MMO like Maple Story or
Free Realms.
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cupSQqgExsg [/ youtube] Sony Online Entertainment recently announced that their long - lived
MMO EverQuest II will
go free to play with the release of its latest expansion, «Age of Discovery».
Guild Wars 2 was the last game I expected to be interested in this year, mainly because I have been getting sick of
MMO's since I quit World of Warcraft and everything else seems to be
going free to play... but Guild Wars 2 pleasantly surprised me when I entered the beta back in late May of this year.
Fantasy
MMO Tera has today
gone free - to - play.
It looks like Trion Worlds» Defiance has
gone the way of every other
MMO to release recently; it has now officially
gone free to play.
One of the best new
MMOs out there is
going to try to lure you in with a weekend of
free play.
CCP Games» space
MMO EVE Online is exploring the
free - to - play landscape as the company has announced a
free - to - play program, which is due to
go live in November.