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The Daily Grind: Which two MMOs should totally hook up?

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Yeah, we're shipping MMOs today, giving new meaning to the Daily Grind! MOP reader Leiloni recently pointed us to an old but still relevant...

Massively Overthinking: Weighing in on Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire

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Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire has been live for just a week now, and while various members of the Massively OP staff have...
Flowering.

Choose My Adventure: Into the desert of Guild Wars 2

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My first week of playing Guild Wars 2 again was interesting, in no small part because it's rare for my playtime to be so...

Battle Bards Episode 106: Early access themes

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Instead of looking back at MMORPGs this week, the crew of Battle Bards launches forward into early access! What would a show about music...
WHY IS STUFF SO HARD?!

Perfect Ten: How MMORPGs become so darn complicated

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MMOs are complicated. This seems like a fairly non-controversial statement; there are more or less complicated games, but they all tend to be complex...

Guild Wars 2’s Mike O’Brien on classic Guild Wars, PvE-PvP ratios, and building social MMOs

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Forbes has a new interview out this week with ArenaNet President Mike O'Brien all about the Guild Wars franchise, beginning with something most people...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 137: Hotfooting down the Path of Fire

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Justin, Bree, and Tina discuss Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire, Guardians of Ember, the EverQuest franchise, Villagers & Heroes' Starfall, Secret World Legends, Star Trek Online, and Ultima Online F2P, with mailbag questions on the best time to join a guild and deal-breaker MMO features.
Here we go again.

Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire launch diary: Initial impressions

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My initial impressions on Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire launch are rather late to the table, owing to some fairly significant connection issues...

The MMO Book Club votes between Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, DCUO, EverQuest, RuneScape, ArcheAge, and WoW

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Hey, remember the MMO Book Club? That's the Reddit-and-Discord group that allows members to vote on a game to play, then organizes a guild...

Guild Wars 2 races to fix Path of Fire login and instance creation issues during launch weekend

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With the popularity of this month's Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, the pressure is on for ArenaNet to keep the game running as...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs get rid of levels?

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I would like to say that when I was a kid playing my first MMORPGs, I was impervious to the grind, that I embraced...

MMO Mechanics: Material storage and the Guild Wars 2 economy

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Guild Wars 2 launched its second expansion, Path of Fire, a few days ago, and as you might expect, a new expansion means some immediate...

Guild Wars 2 counts 11 million players

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A new infographic distributed in honor of the launch of Path of Fire shows that Guild Wars 2 has collected "over 11 million players"...

The Stream Team: The MOP team dives into Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire

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The power of Guild Wars 2's expansion Path of Fire is so great, it brought Massively OP's Bree, Tina, and MJ together! That's right, all...

Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire has launched; get caught up on the expansion here!

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Update: It's live now! Have fun! Guild Wars 2 officially launches its second B2P expansion, Path of Fire, today. In just two hours in fact....
I fell into a burning fire of fire.

Here’s what’s changed since you last played Guild Wars 2, including Path of Fire’s spec changes

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Hey, there's a Guild Wars 2 expansion coming: Path of Fire. Maybe you're coming back for that. Maybe you left the game only a...

PSA: This is your last chance to grab the end of Guild Wars 2 Living World Season 3 for free

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Coming back to Guild Wars 2 this week due to the hullabaloo over Path of Fire? You might end up with a nice content...
Bang bang.

Choose My Adventure: The return to Guild Wars 2

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Many moons ago, when I was first hired on Massively-that-was, my fellow hire at the time was a lady by the name of Rubi...
And we shoot the varmint.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 136: Westward ho!

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Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, Star Citizen, EVE Online, Black Desert, Phantasy Star Online 2, FFXIV, DDO, Neverwinter, Ultima Online, and of course Guild Wars 2, with mailbag entries on Star Citizen's monetization and solid free-to-play side MMOs.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Our Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire launch countdown checklist

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I can't quite believe that around 18 months of Guild Wars 2 development is about to drop in our laps this week through the Path of...

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