MMO Blog

Since the latter half of last year, I’ve played an awful lot of games. Most have been fairly good, some have been excellent, and a few have been terrible. They have, for the most part, had one major thing in common though: they’ve all been free-to-play. Some games – I’m thinking of almost every MMORTS game I’ve ever played, although things like World of Tanks makes it pretty obvious as well – make you know from the very beginning that paying extra will give you certain advantages and may even give you the edge over other players, others gently edge you into paying for support over and above what is necessary. For the most part though, these are full experiences and to say that I haven’t paid a penny on subscription fees over the last several months, I’ve had many happy hours of gaming bliss.

Occasionally I'll get the itch to go back to games I used to play. It's for this reason that I own, including the original release, no less than 11 copies of Sonic the Hedgehog. I'll be browsing the internet and will come across reference to some long forgotten franchise that has been pushed out of my head by modern games, by Bioshock, Call of Duty and Mass Effect. When this happens, there's only one solution: play, play, play.