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Seattle-based studio responsible for Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2’s Lunar New Year festival is live with a new cape and player-designed guild emblems

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The Lunar New Year is just a week and a half away, which means a bunch of MMOs are about to start in on...

The Daily Grind: Capes or backpacks in MMOs?

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2019 was a huge, huge year for MMORPGs. I'm mainly talking about how both Dungeons and Dragons Online and Guild Wars 2 got capes...
Paws for impact.

Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade

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A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...

Cryptic’s Magic: Legends is an isometric RPG and not an MMORPG because of earth elemental butt

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Yesterday, we got our first look at the gameplay in Cryptic's upcoming Magic: Legends MMO, and, well, it didn't go over that well. In...

Guild Wars 2 launches its PvP League Season 20 and announces dates for the Lunar New Year

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Short and sweet Guild Wars 2 news, this one. ArenaNet has officially kicked off its 20th season of the PvP League, which runs between...
At one point, this seemed like a big deal.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 254: New year mysteries

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Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars, the Bless franchise, City of Heroes, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and The Witcher, with mailbag topics on CoH on console, PlanetSide's mismanagement, and a celebratory haiku that prompts some follow-up site discussion!
At the boondocks.

Guild wars come to Black Desert Mobile in today’s PvP-centric update

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If Tuesday patch day feels weird to you for Black Desert Mobile still, then we get you - Wednesday's been the day for the...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Things to do when Guild Wars 2 feels stale

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It happens to every player in every MMO: Sooner or later, even our favorite games start to feel stale. It may be that you’re...

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2019: Transmedia sub synergy

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Today we're finishing off our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2019! Coming in at #1 on our list is... Guild Wars 2 kicks...

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2019

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Last year, I counted it up: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively was...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2020

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All right, 2019. We're done with you. We're moving on. We're in a whole new decade. We've got a brand-new year full of new...

Classic Guild Wars 1’s December patches are apparently still causing lag and crashes

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Classic Guild Wars players know better than to look a gift horse in the mouth when it comes to patches. After getting some significant...
Hold your breath and count to ten, fall apart, start again.

Leaderboard: Are you onboard with the online gaming industry’s new take on sequels?

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Overwatch 2 and Path of Exile 2 being announced in such close proximity, plus rumors of an Anthem reboot in the weeks and the...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019

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The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...

The best Massively OP community polls of 2019

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Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...

MassivelyOP’s 2019 Golden Yachties: Schlag meme of the year

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MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards end today with our pick for Schlag meme of the year. For those who never dip down into the comments,...

Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet seeks art director for unnamed console title

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Time to get that ol' pondering mill a'churnin'. It looks like Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet isn't going to be a one title company,...

The Daily Grind: What is the best MMO holiday event minigame ever designed?

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While Halloween seems to bring out a lot of spooky instances and trick-or-treating in MMORPGs, I've always felt that the Christmas season sees more...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2020

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We're succumbing to tradition this week as we're counting down the days until 2020. As we do at the end of every year, we've...
Back in order.

Why I Play: How NCsoft’s Fafurion update saved Lineage 2 in 2019

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I don't know what it is about Asian MMOs, but I'm inexplicably drawn to them. Maybe it has something to do with my background;...

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