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Each week we find more and more free games that do not quite fit into the freeware mold. Games that do not require a subscription fee to play, but encourage player usage of money through microtransactions or special subscription services. This is Playing For Free, a column that showcases these games.

While chances are your average free-to-play MMO will be Asian in origin, there are still a few exceptions to this stereotype. Once of the best is the independent MMO DarkSpace. It may not be all that popular, high-profile, or mind-blowing (in graphics, anyway), but it incorporates a lot of elements that the rest of the MMO world could learn from. It also doesn't follow the normal microtransaction tomfoolery, opting for a subscription-based service instead. It's an outlier for most people, and that's definitely a shame, as it is incredible and rivals most mainstream MMOs in quality. You won't regret giving it a try.