Official Site:Â Guild Wars
Studio:Â NCsoft
Launch Date: April 26, 2005
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â B2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Global Chat: Dipping back into MMO underwater combat
Guild Wars 2's recent renovation of underwater combat has brought back some interest to this oft-neglected sphere of gameplay. Inventory Full's Bhagpuss used this...
One Shots: A sense of place
Why do you play MMORPGs? What keeps you questing through these ever-growing worlds? I think a lot of us might answer like Zyrusticae in...
Guild Wars 2 tournament needs players to sign up and donate
Eager to watch -- or even participate in -- the next big Guild Wars 2 tournament? Then you'll want to stay tuned to the...
The Stream Team: Gabbing all about Guild Wars 2
Success! Massively OP's MJ has finally nabbed Bree for some GW2 adventures! What adventures? Does it matter: It's Bree and MJ gabbing all about...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs can become more accessible
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was remarkably reluctant to enter into the field of MMORPGs despite being a perfect candidate...
Guild Wars 2 game director talks about the free market and lootboxes
Convenience and cosmetics. These are the foundational pillars of Guild Wars 2's microtransactions, and back at GDC earlier this year, Game Director Crystin Cox...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 170: Mild West Online
Justin and Bree discuss Conan Exiles, Wild West Online, LOTRO, NCsoft's financials, Gamersfirst's acquisition, H1Z1, the Guild Wars franchise, WoW, DDO, and Trove, with mailbag topics on offensive in-game titles and too-fast MMO combat.
Hands-on with Bless Reborn at Neowiz’s San Francisco media reveal
As you probably have heard, there was a Bless influencer event this week, with a couple of media and a smattering of MMO streamers...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMORPG characters primarily wear in-game armor or cash-shop cosmetics?
Take a look at your main character in your main MMORPG right now. What is he or she wearing? And did you get it...
NCsoft Q2 2018: Revenues for all NCsoft MMORPGs are down in Q1 2018 except… Aion?
NCsoft's first quarter 2018 financial results are in, and it's... kinda OK? Guild Wars 2 saw a big drop-off, though that's to be expected...
Classic Guild Wars 1 just got a huge graphics update
This week, classic Guild Wars 1 has gotten its first real update in the years since going into maintenance mode. As we noted on...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 169: Farscape and RuneScape
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Trove, Secret World Legends, RuneScape and Jagex, Amazon's New World, PWE MMO sunsets, Star Trek Online's new business model, SWTOR, and ESO, plus mailbag topics on the Guild Wars 1 graphics update and crafting MMOs. And yes, we talk Farscape too!
Guild Wars 2’s underwater combat update and class balance pass are live today
Some MMOs pump out an endless stream of previews for their big patches, especially the type that overhaul major game systems or balance combat,...
Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding
Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while.
"I have noticed raiding tends to...
Guild Wars 2’s Deadeye is taking another shot from stealth
The Deadeye is in an all right place in terms of DPS, but that alone isn't good enough in Guild Wars 2. The problem...
Battle Bards Episode 120: Short stuff
Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...
Guild Wars 2’s balance update arrives next week – with ‘underwater combat’ revamp
Remember back before Guild Wars 2 launched and its underwater content was touted as the most innovative thing in years? And remember when it...
Guild Wars 2 players sponsor $2000 PvP tournament, ban Chronomancer spec
If Guild Wars 2's abrupt pull-out of PvP e-sports and tournaments a year ago filled all your 20-slot bags with stacks of pure sadness,...
The Stream Team: Living the Guild Wars 2 life
With all the holidays and events in all the games that Massively OP's MJ highlights, sometimes it is hard for her to just go...
Guild Wars blows out 13 candles on its birthday cake – were you there for its first?
Travel back with us to April 2005, when an unknown and unproven studio known as ArenaNet decided to make a play at its own...
