Announcements

Turbine today unveiled their latest MMORPG, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited.  This game will be free-to-play, though Turbine promises that it will "offer the quality graphics and robust features previously only available in premium subscription based-games."

"Historically, players of free online games were forced to sacrifice the quality of their experience,” said Jim Crowley, President and CEO. "Those days are over. The new DDO Unlimited is the most innovative, exciting and graphically rich MMO to ever hit the free-to-play market and it changes the very nature of what it means to be free-to-play."

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited is playable for free, with certain items and content available via micro-transactions and a subscription granting additional bonuses.  Those interested can sign up for the free beta at ddo.com.

So the followup to Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach is a free-to-play MMO.  This is the latest suggestion that much MMO content is going with some variation of the free-to-play model and that Blizzard has an iron grip on the subscription fantasy MMORPG genre with World of Warcraft."
http://content.turbine.com/pages/www.ddo.com/beta_signup/index.php?utm_source=ddo_com