Pay-once MMO

Other (objects, etc.) concept

MMOs for which you only pay once after which it's playable like any other game with no need to pay subscription if one even exists. Pay-once bit does not extend to expansions or possible microtransactions.

games

platforms

Name variations: Buy to play

Guild Wars

WIN 2005-04-26

Global Agenda

WIN 2010-02-01

Guild Wars: Nightfall

WIN 2006-10-27

WIN 2012-07-03

WIN 2007-04-03

X360 2011-01

WIN 2006-04-28

WIN 2013-04-02

Guild Wars: Eye of the North

WIN 2007-08-28

Albion Online

LIN 2019

Albion Online

WIN 2017-07-17

Defiance

PS3 2013-04-02

Commonly bought like a full priced regular game but have no subscription fees and aren't free-to-play.

This is the default for most non-free non-MMO games which is why it's MMO specific.

Parent groups

Financial and business models, Massively Multiplayer Online Game

Games by year

The first Pay-once MMO video game was released on April 26, 2005.

NCsoft, Sandbox Interactive and Trion Worlds published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		10
X360		2
PS3		1
Linux		1
Mac OS X		1

Most common companies