Happy Holidays and it's time for more of ZAM's 2009 End of the Year Awards! Today's category is "Best Free to Play MMO," and this year saw some fantastic additions to the Free to Play MMO sphere, as well as some strong contenders become even stronger with their platoons of enthusiastic developers.

Of particular interest for the year of '09, F2P MMO gamers would see the rise of a different kind of the 'free to play' business model in the form of buying and unlocking dungeon content, or sometimes even unique classes that cannot be unlocked, or are difficult to unlock through regular game play. While mostly western F2P MMOs would utilize this model, like Dungeons & Dragons Online (under its new F2P model), or SOE's newest MMO, Free Realms, it's probably only a matter of time before some eastern developed MMOs go down this path as well.

Remember, you can check out all of the awards given out thus far at the main 2009 Award Page, or you can jump directly to see who won our "Best Free-to-Play MMO" award!