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Survarium Developers Talk About Stopping Cheaters
2The next game from the folks who once made the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. titles won’t be out for a while, but they already know that people will be trying to exploit it. They’ve got plans to stop those ne’er-do-wells.
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Phantasy Star Online 2 Is Fun, Frantic And Free-To-Play
These days the net is overflowing with free-to-play MMORPGs. But even before free-to-play MMORPGs were a thing, there was Phantasy Star Online. This online-RPG graced consoles and PCs alike in the early 2000s and proved to be the most popular game of its kind in Japan (until Final Fantasy XI hit stores in 2002). Now,…
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BioWare Is ‘Looking At Free-to-Play’ For Star Wars: The Old Republic
Back in December BioWare’s duelling doctors told us they couldn’t see their newly-launched massively multiplayer online Star Wars role-playing game going free-to-play in the foreseeable future. Then BioWare botched several free game updates and lost a good chunk of the game’s subscribers. Suddenly free-to-play isn’t looking so bad. In an interview with Games(TM), lead designer…
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After 13 Years, Original EverQuest Goes F2P
One of the longest-running subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing games has finally succumbed to the sweet, sweet lure of the microtranscation-based business model, as EverQuest celebrates its 13th anniversary by going free-to-play.