MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2 is a study in contradictions (November 29, 2015)

    
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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!

Attention, those of you who survived Turkey Coma and Black Friday 2015: We now return you to your regularly scheduled MMOs. This week, Guild Wars 2 overtook holiday headlines and hits by talking up its continuing e-sports push and then saying farewell to its WvW dev while simultaneously promising love for WvW. Wheee!

Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.

HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDES (SO FAR)
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Camelot Unchained unveils its healer archetypes - Killer class reveals are old hat for Camelot Unchained at this point, so it should come as no surprise that CityState has unleashed another one here on Thanksgiving eve. This time around we're talking healers, and…
Gnome Hunters will be a thing in WoW’s Legion - World of Warcraft's forthcoming Legion expansion will turn gnome Hunters into a thing. And by a thing, I meant gnomes who are Hunters rather than hunters of gnomes. This is apparently a big deal, seeing as how…
World of Warcraft hails its 11th birthday - It was on this date in 2004 that a little-known fantasy MMO debuted on the scene after a half-decade of development and testing. False modesty aside, World of Warcraft was already a huge phenomenon at its…
SWTOR is buffing companions, but not as much as before - Lead designer Michael Backus has posted on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums regarding the recent companion brouhaha. If you want to read the rationale behind BioWare's decision to nerf the bejesus out of companions…
Rumor: Firefall studio Red 5 hit by layoffs [Confirmed] - Red 5 looks to be suffering through a round of layoffs, although the scope and reason behind the pink slips has yet to be revealed. MMORPG.com has an anonymous source that claims the layoffs are "major." One of…
MMO Burnout: Five ways to fix Star Wars Battlefront - I'll probably take some flak for saying so, but I'm still enjoying Star Wars: Battlefront. It's not a broken game as much as it's an incomplete game, though the cynical (i.e., realistic) part of my brain…
World of Warcraft is looking to fill key roles - It's always a fascinating if tantalizing trip to head over to a studio's job openings page and see what positions the company is trying to fill. Sometimes it can be an indication of future projects or…
Wurm Unlimited is kicking ass on Steam - Wurm Unlimited is still hanging out in SteamSpy's top 25 after one month of release. A press blurb from Code Club lead developer Rolf Jansson says that the fantasy sandbox also has the third highest playtime of…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
AND FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BLIZZARD WATCH

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Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Monday’s Not So Massively for MOBA and multiplayer news, Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.

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