We here at Gamer Limit love a good free MMO as much as the next person, but what happens when these so called ‘free’ MMOs stop being free. Sony’s upcoming MMO, Free Realms is attempting to do just that. Shying away from the microtransaction model favored by so many MMOs, they have decided to go with a subscription to get several features. While this is only $5, it’s the principle of it.

Free Realms is still free, but if you would like to be able to try all of the jobs, quests, items, or have more than one character, you’re going to have to shell out said five dollars. We’ll just have to wait and see how Free Realms does to know if this is as working business model. I don’t mind a subscription, but I don’t want to be locked out of game changing content, especially in a game with free in its title. Also, look forward to the PS3 version that’s in development (though no guarantees, you know how console MMOs work).

Source: Massively