Cliffs Of Dover

[FS~Phat]

As Chris Roberts has just demonstrated with his plans for Star Citizen. The "NEW" type of MMO doesnt have to be a bad thing.

Pay up front for the game.
No subscription
Option to buy addons or upgrades and additional content(similar to ROF)
Campaign / single player / co-op with MMO world integration giving option for online or offline play
MMO type persistent world where you can have MP combat which will also supports "instanced" Co-op.
Private server support for creating your own battle campaigns or co-op sessions.

Star Trek Online also does most of this now without a monthly subscription fee.

So MMO is evolving as most of the big AAA publishers/developers have worked out the dropout rate for monthly subscription MMO is very high!