MJ Guthrie
Community Manager
When not immersed in her favorite virtual worlds, MJ can be found hanging out with her family, reading, coaching/playing sports, writing fiction, singing, and dabbling in graphic design (in random order, depending on mood and season). Her favorite part of MMOs? Observing the dynamics of virtual communities. That psychology degree has to come in handy somewhere, doesn't it?
MJ's Massively Overpowered adventures can be found many places: She investigates Secret World Legends/The Secret World's conspiracies in Chaos Theory, chronicles the EverQuest franchise in EverQuesting, practices survival in many sandboxes with The Survivalist, and livestreams for the Stream Team.
Personal blog: Looking for ShiniesTwitter: @MJ_Guthrie
PAX West 2017: A peek at PAX in pictures
With travel, hotel accommodations, and time off work, the logistics of attending your favorite convention doesn't always pan out. Heck, even when you get...
The Stream Team: A first alpha look at Wild West Online
There are so few western MMOs, but Wild West Online is fixin' to change that. And by golly, thanks to Alpha Test 1, Massively...
The Stream Team: Cuddling ArcheAge’s anniversary corgi
Massively OP's MJ might be really sad about losing all her houses, but there's one thing that can entice her right back into ArcheAge:...
The Stream Team: Handing out Hand of the Gods goodies
It's deja vu day! The last time Massively OP's MJ shared some Hand of the Gods gameplay, she gave away a handful of Founders...
PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma
What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then,...
The Stream Team: Taking on the Blue Mountain bear in Secret World Legends
PAX West delayed the exodus of Massively OP's MJ from Blue Mountain in Secret World Legends. There's also a matter of an undead bear...
The Stream Team: Watch SMITE arena fun and win an Ultimate God Pack
Wednesday the 13th could be your lucky day. Do you want a SMITE Ultimate God Pack? We bet you do! And we bet you'd...
PAX West 2017: ArcheAge’s Corgi Conundrum, anniversary update, and the 4.0 expansion
Nothing may quite compare to last week's big server evolution in scope of change for ArcheAge, but there are more changes coming over the next...
The Stream Team: Giving away Dauntless beta codes
There are plenty of reasons to play a game, everything from events to raids to roleplay to capturing the perfect screenshot. Really, there are...
PAX West 2017: SMITE’s new conquest map, Paladins Strike, and the fate of SMITE Rivals
Just because SMITE and Paladins weren't available to play at PAX West doesn't mean that there wasn't stuff to learn about the games from Hi-Rez!
I...
PAX West 2017: Hand of the Gods’ Japanese pantheon and the possibility of 2v2
While the full Hi-Rez portfolio wasn't in attendance at PAX West, Hand of the Gods was on-hand with a fan tournament as well as...
The Stream Team: A look at life after the big ArcheAge server merges + giveaway
It finally happened: Massively OP's MJ was uprooted from her ArcheAge server of over three years and tossed onto a new world with a...
PAX West 2017: A closer look at H1Z1 King of the Kill’s combat practice
If you've been away from H1Z1 for a long time, you need to known that Daybreak's been making it easier to get back into...
PAX West 2017: Life and death in Digital Extremes’ new MMO Survived By
While there were plenty of established games on hand at PAX West 2017, there were also a few new ones offering players a taste...
PAX West 2017: How RIFT is making player exploration worth the effort
Although much of the RIFT demo at PAX West focused on showing off the Celestial Storm update, it was another aspect that captured my...
PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation’s combat, crowdfunding, characters, and the infamous hat
You don't have to be a massive MMO studio to have a big showing at PAX West - Intrepid Studios proved that. The indie studio...
PAX West 2017: Playing Kritika Online’s upcoming Psion class in Shattered Table
En Masse recently introduced the newest class coming to Kritika Online, and while visiting the studio's offices during PAX West 2017, I was able...
PAX West 2017: Taking ‘control’ of TERA on console
It's all about the controller: My En Masse Entertainment PAX West office visit last weekend included a hands-on with TERA on console.
Now, I have...
The Stream Team: Fighting through Secret World Legends’ Darkness War dungeon
Before Massively OP's MJ can say see ya later to Secret World Legends' Blue Mountain, she needs to take one more trip into the...
PAX West 2017: Taking a closer look at En Masse’s Closers
When I visited the En Masse offices during PAX West, it was a crash course in learning how to use a controller -- which...
