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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Guild Wars 2 balances classes and adds spectacular new mounts – for a price
Guild Wars 2 patched in new mounts today, and they're gorgeous. But don't get too excited; they're in gated behind a weird new RNG...
WildStar, Blade and Soul, Aion, and Lineage II come under DDoS attacks
Hackers launched an offensive against NCsoft yesterday, targeting several of the company's MMORPGs in a series of DDoS attacks. WildStar, Aion, Lineage II, and...
Vote for your favorite player-created Guild Wars 2 instrument of death
Power to the people! Guild Wars 2 has opened the polls for players to cast their vote on which fan-created weapon should be made...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 142: The state of the sci-fi MMO genre
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, Destiny 2, RIFT, CCP's studio closures, Warframe, and Star Citizen's CitizenCon, with tidbits on Guild Wars 2, Trove, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and BlizzCon, and a mailbag question on the future of traditional MMORPGs.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Act II of Guild War’s 2’s Path of Fire story
In the last edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, I discussed the opening sections of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire's story while providing you with a brief...
Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition
Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...
One Shots: Mummies making tracks
Let me tell you, I'm not playing RIFT right now but still I am so very tempted to log on and purchase that squirrel...
Choose My Adventure: Not quite farewell to Guild Wars 2
I am not done with Guild Wars 2.
This may or may not come as a surprise to people, but it's still the case regardless....
Guild Wars 2 is releasing a vinyl soundtrack for Path of Fire and planning Extra Life shenanigans
You hipsters still have your vintage record players, right? I mean, how else are you going to enjoy Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire's...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO characters seem truly insane
We all like making the occasional observation about the weirdness inherent in video games, but most of us also recognize that what we're really...
MMO blogger dives into the theoretical math behind lockboxes
MMO blogger Serrenity, whom many of you will recognize from his clever comments here on MOP too, has a compelling blog post on his...
The Stream Team: Racing through Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King
Massively OP's MJ loved Halloween events before, but Guild Wars 2 is giving her reason to love them more! The game has added mount...
The Daily Grind: How many of you are still playing Guild Wars 2?
As I type this, Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion has been out exactly a month. At the time, I remember making fun...
Choose My Adventure: All spoken out in Guild Wars 2
Well, this is a bit awkward. I appear to have run out of things to say.
This is not inherently a bad thing. My time...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 140: Dubious drops in LOTRO, FFXIV, and SWTOR
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends' Orochi Tower patch, Lord of the Rings' weird patch week, FFXIV's housing mess, SWTOR's balance patch, Warframe's open-world patch, and H1Z1's name-change patch, with a mailbag question about older gamers in MMORPGs.
Guild Wars 2’s Halloween event heralds new mount skins and new content
Guild Wars 2's Halloween festivities have officially begun! The Mad King's gala has a few new additions this year, including new themed guild decor, new...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire story
I feel as though the time is finally right to talk to you all about the awesome chunk of story that dropped with Guild Wars...
Choose My Adventure: Map-based antics in Guild Wars 2
One of the points of the polls and discussions for Guild Wars 2 the other week was that while I could focus on either...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of ‘automatic helping behaviors’ in MMORPGs?
We've been complaining about lockboxes a lot lately as an unwelcome psychological trick in gaming, so this morning, I wanted to talk about a...
Perfect Ten: Why no one should recommend World of Warcraft ever
Last week, MOP's Justin (friend to man and beast alike) posted his list of MMOs he would recommend people play. It was a pretty...