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EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic will, whenever it eventually arrives, be the last large scale” MMO to monetise itself via monthly subscriptions. That’s the opinion of Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley. We see some very interesting trends in subscription gaming,” he told GamesIndustry. In our cancellation surveys for …
Read More »Screen Digest: MMO subscriptions on the fall
Subscriptions for MMOs have declined for the first time, according to new research. Despite the drop, microtransactions continue to grow strongly”, said Piers Harding-Rolls of analytics firm Screen Digest, which carried out the study. He added I don’t believe we’ll see subscriptions grow again in this sector as microtransactions take …
Read More »The future of the MMO
Industry experts at the forefront of MMO discuss the genre's past, present and future
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic beta delayed in Europe
The European version of the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta has been delayed. No new date has been announced. Fans are still waiting for a firm release date for the actual game. "Firstly, there’s a new build of the game on the horizon,” community manager Chris Collins clarified on …
Read More »Star Trek Online to adopt F2P
Yet another big-hitting MMO is to drop its current subscription model in favour of free-to-play. Cryptic Studios owner Perfect World has stated that the transition will happen before the end of the year, Gamasutra reports. "When Perfect World acquired Cryptic, one of our contributions was to share our free-to-play experience …
Read More »Unity Focus: Uberstrike
We take a look at Cmune's ambitious 'MMO-FPS'
Read More »NCsoft’s new MMO Wildstar looks to shake up genre
GAMESCOM: MMO specialist NCsoft has lifted the lid on a brand new MMO from developer Carbine Studios – Wildstar. The game takes a different design approach to rivals in the MMO genre by offering significantly different gameplay styles depending on the player’s chosen speciality – Explorer, Soldier, Scientist or Settler. …
Read More »Old Republic gets first live demo
GAMESCOM: Attendees at Gamescom 2011 were treated to the first live gameplay demo of Star Wars: The Old Republic. A team of eight players were hooked up online and took part in a large player-versus-environment mission in EA’s upcoming PC MMORPG. The first big operation in the game was showcased …
Read More »Transformers MMO entering beta "very soon"
Leading social games specialist Jagex has said that its Transformers Universe MMO will enter the beta testing phase in the very near future. A 55-strong development team is currently hard at work on the title, with numbers expecting to hit 70 and total development time calculated to be under 23 …
Read More »30% of freemium users ‘have paid for goods’
Study by PlaySpan and VG Market reveals useful information on burgeoning freemium sector
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