Premium EverQuest service unveiled: "Sony Online Entertainment has announced EverQuest Legends, its upcoming premium subscription service for EverQuest, its popular online role-playing game. The new service includes a number of exclusive new features, such as new character tracking pages, an exclusive dynamic server with a limited population and new quests, a variety of unique weapons and armor, a new dynamic map, and several other services and features."

Successful online RPGs such as Everquest and Ultima have been fee-based since the beginning, but I don't remember seeing tiered offerings up to now. This one comes with an ego-boosting bonus: "[s]ome of these Legendary items will even be named after the first player who discovers them".