List of massively multiplayer online first-person shooter games
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This is a selected list of massively multiplayer online first-person shooter games. MMOFPSs are large multi-user games that take place in perpetual online worlds with hundreds or thousands of other players.
List of notable MMOFPSs
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| Title | Status | Subscription Model | Release Date || Close Date | class="unsortable" | Notes | |
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| Dust 514 | Ended | Free-to-play | May 14, 2013 | May 30, 2016 | |
| Face of Mankind | Ended | Free-to-play/Subscription | August 31, 2006 | September 3, 2015 | Went through various names, financial models, and publishers during its nine-year existence |
| Firefall | Ended | Free-to-play | September 2, 2011 | July 7, 2017 | |
| Global Agenda
|Released |Free-to-play |February 1, 2010 | |A hybrid between a multiplayer, hub-based shooter and a larger-scale persistent world online shooter (MMO). | |||||
| Hellgate: London
|Ended |Free-to-play |October 31, 2007 |January 31, 2009 |"The game can be played in either third person perspective or first person perspective." "Hellgate: London can be played offline or online without a fee." | |||||
| Huxley
|Ended | |May 3, 2010 |December 30, 2010 | | |||||
| MAG | Ended | Free-to-play | January 26, 2010 | January 28, 2014 | |
| Neocron
|Released |Subscription/Free-to-play (June 2011) |September 9, 2002 | |MMO with RPG and FPS elements. | |||||
| PlanetSide | Ended | Subscription | May 20, 2003 | July 1, 2016 | Launched with a subscription-based pay model. Went free-to-play on April 29, 2014 until server shutdown. |
| PlanetSide Arena | Ended | Free-to-play | September 19, 2019 | January 10, 2020 | Free-to-play spinoff of PlanetSide 2 featuring game modes like capture the flag and battle royale. Shut down due to low player counts. |
| PlanetSide 2 | Released | Free-to-play | November 20, 2012 | On January 23, 2015, PlanetSide 2 set the record for the most players online in a single FPS battle.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/1/planetside-2-gamers-aiming-for-fps-battle-world-record-this-weekend-370414|title=PlanetSide 2 gamers set Most Players Online in a single FPS battle record|date=January 23, 2015|website=Guinness World Records}} | |
| Tabula Rasa
|Ended |Subscription |November 2, 2007 |February 28, 2009 |"It still was not an outright shooter and featured sticky targeting and dice rolling based on character stats underneath." | |||||
| World War II Online
|Released |Free-to-play |June 6, 2001 | |Game is still online and playable, although the player base has significantly dwindled. The game is still providing content updates and developers are pushing towards a core engine update utilising Unreal (As at March 2022). |
Business models
MMOFPSs today use a wide range of business models, from completely free of charge (no strings attached) or advertise funded to various kinds of payment plans. This list uses the following terms.
- Free-to-play (F2P) means that there might be a cost to purchase the software but there is no subscription charge or added payments needed to access game content.
- Pay-to-play means that players must pay, usually by monthly subscription, in order to play the game.
- Freemium means that the majority of game content is available for free but players can pay for extra content or added perks.