
The free-to-play market is booming business in the MMO industry. Not only are foreign companies porting over their popular F2P titles and localizing them for an American audience, but homegrown companies are now starting to cut out pieces of that pie for themselves. One of these companies, Sony Online Entertainment, has been developing Free Realms for quite some time. Free Realms is an MMORPG whose target audience falls in the younger spectrum. It combines casual gaming, RPG combat, tradeskills and a trading card game into one experience. The game world is a whimsical, fictional and cartoon-like environment.

A lot has happened in gaming, especially free-to-play gaming, over the last decade. Nobody could predict just how prevalent it’s become, and how some of the biggest games on the planet – League of Legends, Fortnite: Battle Royale, World of Tanks, and more – are all free-to-play.

PSU looks at the emergence of free-to-play games and how it relates to PS3 and PS4.

The Koalition: "Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) hosts an annual event to celebrate their massive stable of free-to-play MMO games, as well as an opportunity for them to finally shed some more light on the next Everquest game. SOE’s library of current offerings includes: DC Universe™ Online, Dragon’s Prophet™, EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Free Realms®, PlanetSide®2 (review here,) PoxNora®, Star Wars®: Clone Wars Adventures™ and Vanguard® Saga of Heroes. With so many games on their roster, it’s no surprise that they host an annual event to celebrate the games and gamers. The event is being held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Aug. 1 – Aug. 4, 2013."
i've never played an MMO
ok i like the fact that sony try to cater for every demographic... its cool that they want to bring games that some group of people will like... but this kiddie mmo i just dont get really... for 1 how many little kiddies have a ps3? i mean its like 300 quid now even that is too expensive for some hardcore gamers let alone for some parents to buy their young child surely thats what the wii is for?... now im in no way saying the ps3 isnt worth 300 quid... damn right it is but i just question how many young kids have 1... secondly out of the minority of kids that might be lucky enough to have a ps3 how many of them are hooked up to the net? and for the ones that are hooked up to the net how many of their parents will be willing to give them 5 quid a month to play a game? i think when you whittle all that down it will be a rather small number if you ask me... yeah more games the better but come on sony hit your demographic dont even bother with the casual sh!t as nintendo has that wrapped up.
I know people hate paying, but that is why I like it. There are no douche bags online because they won't pony up for it.
This game will suck balls because it is aimed at younger audience.
That means sh1t talking teenagers and general losers all round.
FAIL
Try WoW free trial if you have a decent PC and want to play mmorpg. But be careful, you will say goodbye to life.