guild wars 2

Official Site: Guild Wars 2
Studio: ArenaNet/NCsoft
Launch Date: August 28, 2012
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid B2P (Cash Shop, No Sub, Paid Expansions)
Platform: PC

End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond

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As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...

The Stream Team: Living the Guild Wars 2 Season 3 life

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With holiday events over, Massively OP's MJ can return her focus to finishing up the Guild Wars 2 story. And to do that, she...

Massively OP Podcast: The 500th episode and writer roundtable

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Justin, Bree, Chris, and Eliot host the annual roundtable and 500th episode of the show since the MOP reboot in 2015; they discuss the history of the podcast, fave MMOs from 2024, most anticipated games for 2025, highlights of MOP's awards series, the state of the site, and mailbag topics on Discord and MMO history podcasts.

Fight or Kite: The PvP MMOs we’re watching in 2025

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Today we arrive at the first Fight or Kite column of the newest quarter of the century, and while I can’t speak for other...

One Shots: Pretty please give me those pretty spaceships

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It's a new year of community screenshots here at One Shots Incorporated (that's right, we're now a soulless corporation with algorithms and AI and...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO goals and resolutions for 2025

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Every year when we post this traditional Massively Overthinking roundtable, at least one person on staff dithers because not every one does "resolutions." We...
Here we are again.

End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMOs at the top of 2025

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So here we are again, at the transition for another year, and let me tell you that I am glad this column went a...
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Vague Patch Notes: How Throne and Liberty actually got my attention

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Leading up to the release of Throne and Liberty, I was not particularly enthusiastic about the game's prospects on a whole. The reasons for...

MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the MMO Expansion of the Year, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2's...

MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best MMO Housing

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best MMO Housing, which was awarded to Villagers & Heroes last year. MMORPGs...

End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMO expansions of 2024

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Around the Massively OP office, the common consensus is that 2024 ended up being the Year of the MMO Expansion. After all, we got...

The Stream Team: Comparing MMO Yule Logs for Christmas

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Did you expect an action-packed adventure on Christmas Day? Sorry, Massively OP's MJ plans to just sit by a blazing fire and relax with...

The Stream Team: Christmas Eve capers in Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday

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Last-minute shopping? No thank you! Massively OP's MJ will get all her holiday PvP needs met in Guild Wars 2's Snowball Mayhem. She'll also...

MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best MMO Business Model

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV last...
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The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations

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It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?

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The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

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This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...

The Stream Team: The cat’s heist in Guild Wars 2

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While on a quest for a frog in a top hat in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ was introduced to a fairly famous...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play

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Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions

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Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...

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