guild wars

Official Site: Guild Wars
Studio: NCsoft
Launch Date: April 26, 2005
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: B2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Global Chat: Getting a handle on Legends of Aria

Justin Olivetti - July 28, 2018 4

One of the great benefits of reading the wealth of MMO blogs out there is that you can touch base on a huge variety...

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Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness

Bree Royce - July 26, 2018 27

Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...

The Stream Team: Frivolity in Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds

MJ Guthrie - July 25, 2018 0

Feel like racing as a dolyak? You can in Guild Wars 2's latest festival! Although Festival of the Four Winds isn't new (it has...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 179: MMO parenting fails

Justin Olivetti - July 24, 2018 10

Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds has launched after four years asleep

Bree Royce - July 24, 2018 4

Guild Wars 2 is going old school today with the return of the Festival of the Four Winds, a festival players haven't seen in...

One Shots: Party animals

Justin Olivetti - July 22, 2018 29

Apologies for the disruption in the normal One Shots schedule over the past couple of weeks, but we're back and freakishly abnormal! Everyone behave...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite non-awful gaming subreddit?

Bree Royce - July 20, 2018 39

I want to flip the tables on the whole toxicity/Reddit thing a bit. Earlier this week, we talked about some of the problems Reddit...

Perfect Ten: Endless dungeons in MMOs

Eliot Lefebvre - July 18, 2018 25

Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 178: #womenarecosmetic

Justin Olivetti - July 17, 2018 15

Justin and Bree discuss WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Wild West Online, Star Citizen, Defiance 2050, Rend, and Fractured, with a mailbag question on in-game conflict resolution and a special interview on Blaugust Reborn.

Guild Wars 2 is bringing back the Festival of the Four Winds next week – it’s the next best thing to Cantha

Bree Royce - July 17, 2018 14

You know what Guild Wars 2 could use right about now? How about a festival? Yeah! How about the return of a festival that's...

Global Chat: Looking back at World of Warcraft’s Legion

Justin Olivetti - July 14, 2018 9

Now that the next World of Warcraft expansion is almost upon us, it's time to say farewell to Legion and all that that entails....

Battle Bards Episode 124: Old MMOs, new music

Justin Olivetti - July 12, 2018 1

It’s a catch-all, catch-up episode for the Battle Bards as they dig through new soundtrack releases from MMORPGs that they’ve covered in the past!...

Former Guild Wars 2 developer criticizes ArenaNet boss for ‘solicitation of harassment’ and minimization of her work

Bree Royce - July 11, 2018 413

Former ArenaNet developer Jessica Price has just made a string of new statements on Twitter discussing some of the issues surrounding the ongoing Guild...

Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017

Justin Olivetti - July 11, 2018 17

Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 177: ArenaNet A-bomb

Justin Olivetti - July 10, 2018 49

Justin and Bree discuss the Guild Wars 2 debacle, Trove, The Sims 3, Camelot Unchained, Warframe, Shroud of the Avatar, Temtem, Final Fantasy XIV, Defiance 2050, and Trion's Marvel Heroes promo, plus a mailbag entry on looter shooters as the future of MMORPGs.