World of Warcraft Subscriber Dip Attributabled to TOR, Says Blizzard.
After seven years of nearly undisputed dominance, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft has been losing subscribers. In November, they had 10.3 million active subscribers, down from 11.1 million three months...
View ArticleThe Latest EA Earnings Call – F2P Details
After yesterday’s big SWTOR news– the free-to-play reveal– EA held a quarterly earnings conference call that revealed a little more information about the financial reasons behind the game’s model...
View ArticleSWTOR Goes F2P – Investor and Fan Reactions
The MMO community has had a lot to say about Tuesday’s announcement since it went live. Many opinions are negative, many are encouragingly positive, and many lie somewhere in between. Most of us, I...
View ArticleBecome a Premium Junkie – Support Rift Junkies
For all of our readers out there that would like support or to continue to support Rift Junkies, we have a new program called Premium Junkies. For either $3 per month or $25.00 per year you will no...
View ArticleRIFT Suits Subscription, Not Free-to-Play
Free-to-play (and its cousin buy-to-play) are undeniably the hot payment methods right now for games. Subscription MMOs are becoming the minority and yet RIFT and Trion seem to be holding firm in...
View ArticleBusiness Model Details Coming Soon!
The folks at ZAM recently published a pretty awesome interview with Jeremy Gaffney where he talked about everything from role-playing servers to monetization systems in MMOs and elder game PvP content...
View ArticleWildStar to Have Subscription Model Plus Extras
The details are out, folks! MMORPG.com published the goods just a bit ago– WildStar will feature an old school subscription plan business model with an extra twist that will allow a decent chunk of...
View ArticleSpring 2014 Launch Window!
Amidst yesterday’s big news regarding the long-awaited business model announcement for WildStar, Carbine Studios also included this pretty awesome tidbit when they released a detailed visual guide to...
View ArticleWait– A Subscription and a Cash Shop?
One of the largest takeaways during this past weekend’s Gamescom coverage was more information regarding ZeniMax Online’s decision to make The Elder Scrolls Online a subscription-only game. We found...
View ArticleTrion Runs Sale on RIFT Patron Subscriptions
Trion announced a new sale to help players gain more RIFT bonuses for their buck yesterday, and nope, it isn’t a sale on Credits. Rather, it’s a sale on Patron subscriptions. The three-month,...
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