List of massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Part of a series on
Role-playing video games
Subgenres
Action RPG MUD MMORPG Roguelike Tactical RPG
Topics
Social interaction in MMORPGs Character creation Dialog tree GNS Theory History of Eastern RPGs History of MMORPGs History of Western RPGs Non-player character Player character Quest RPG terms Statistics Threefold Model
Lists
List of RPGs List of MUDs List of roguelikes Chronology of TRPGs Comparison of MMORPGs List of free MMOGs List of MMORPGs List of Japanese RPGs on PC List of SNES RPGs List of text-based MMORPGs

This is a selected list of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. MMORPGs are large multi-user games that take place in perpetual online worlds with a great number of other players. In most MMORPGs each player controls an avatar that interacts with other players, completes tasks to gain experience, and acquires items.

Business models

MMORPGs today use a wide range of business models, from free of charge, free with microtransactions, advertise funded, to various kinds of payment plans. This list uses the following terms.

• Free-to-play (F2P) means that there is no cost to purchase the software and there is no subscription charge. Variably applies to traditionally bought and forever available games (see Buy-to-play below). Most newer MMOs that fall under this category now includes microtransactions however, which causes them to overlap with the Freemium model.
• Freemium means that the majority or all of the game's content is available for free but players can pay for extra content, character customization, added perks or faster advancement into the game via microtransactions.
• Buy-to-play (B2P) means that the MMO can only be played by purchasing the game, but there is no subsequent subscription fee for playing the game. These games may or may not include additional microtransactions, or may sell additional content in the form of expansions instead of asking for an ongoing subscription fee.
• Pay-to-play (P2P) means that the MMO requires a monthly subscription fee or other ongoing fee in order to continue playing the game. It may also require an up-front purchase of the game in addition to the monthly subscription fee, though many of these up-front purchases include a month of game time. This was once the most common way for MMOs to finance themselves, but has fallen out of favor in recent years as an increasing number of games have switched to other business models due to difficulty in retaining a stable playerbase.

List of MMORPGs

See also

• Chronology of MUDs
• Comparison of MMORPGs
• History of MMORPGs
• List of free MMOGs
• List of MMOGs
• List of multiplayer browser games
• List of text-based MMORPGs
• Online game

Notes