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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The Daily Grind: Should MMOs do more to provide a backstory for your character?
Maybe I'm in the vast minority here, but it's always bugged me that MMORPGs just plop your fully grown, fully proficient adult character into...
Massively Overthinking: The more things change in MMOs, the more they stay the same
A while back, in the wake of our Desert Oasis column on Black Desert's guild system, Carlo and I were discussing guild wars -...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 272: Death of dragons
Justin and Bree discuss Fallout 76, WoW China, MMO financials, Dragon's Prophet, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, with adventures in SWG Legends and Elder Scrolls online, plus mailbag topics on character select screens and new classes for expansions.
Guild Wars 2 on the storytelling philosophy of next week’s No Quarter episode
ArenaNet's Novera King has emerged to pen Guild Wars 2's latest dev blog - no surprise since it's about storytelling and she's one of...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the shortest leveling content?
One of the oddball things I actually liked about Star Wars Galaxies - even its NGE version - was how wildly fast leveling went...
Fight or Kite: Surveying Crowfall’s new Frostweaver class and interface updates
I’ve been itching to get back in and play some Crowfall, and with the War of the Gods update I've got a good reason:...
The Daily Grind: What MMO should a true MMO newbie try in 2020?
If you've ever been to generalist gaming Reddits, you know one of the most common threads is the "what should I play" thread, which...
LOTRO Legendarium: What I want from Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO
While my primary interest and focus in this column continues to be Lord of the Rings Online, I'm not so stubborn as to refuse...
NCsoft Q1 2020: Double YoY revenue thanks to Lineage 2M, Tencent to pub Guild Wars 2 in China
Business is booming over in NCsoft's world, though it's not because of its western holdings. In this first quarter of 2020, the South Korean...
The Daily Grind: If you had your way, what one MMO patch in history would you roll back?
Rollbacks are in the news lately, and not for great reasons - some Guild Wars 2 players did indeed lose hours of time played...
Guild Wars 2 hands out free mount skins to players who lost playtime in the EU rollbacks
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 players in the EU were dismayed to realized that an unintentional rollback of their server cluster had cost...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 271: Population Zero plus three
Justin, Bree, and Sam discuss Population Zero, Blizzard's Q1 2020 report, Trove Delves, ESO's Greymoor prologue, and Guild Wars 2's rollback, with adventures in Fallout 76, Starborne, LOTRO, and SWG Legends, and mailbag topics on MMO reward hoarding and whether SSG's business model is predatory.
Guild Wars 2 has restored the EU servers to Monday morning after multiday rollback
Yesterday, we covered the Guild Wars 2 community's many reports across Reddit and the official forums that the game had suffered a major rollback...
Guild Wars 2’s EU server cluster suffered a multiday rollback this weekend
Back when I first started in MMOs, rollbacks were a daily occurrence, quite literally. Not only was the server likely to crash at least...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite empty, neglected zone in an MMORPG?
Since dipping my toe back into classic Guild Wars last month for the anniversary fun, I took myself on a wee tour of some...
The Game Archaeologist: The rise and fall of Landmark and EverQuest Next
The year was 2013. Sony Online Entertainment was still a functioning and seemingly robust MMORPG studio, and its yearly SOE Live convention was a...
Massively Overthinking: The oldest MMORPGs we still play
When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due...
Guild Wars 2 makes Whisper in the Dark free this week while the community creates an anthology of hopeful stories
While this free episodic stuff was brought up by us near the end of April, consider this your gentle reminder that Guild Wars 2...
Vague Patch Notes: What causes the preponderance of disconnected MMO endgames?
Yesterday, I wrote a whole column about how WildStar had some really great stuff in it. I did not mention its endgame at all....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 270: Words of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, Defiance, World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, and COVID-19 delays, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, and mailbag topics on Blizzard and freeform character building.
