guild wars

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

The next episode of Guild Wars 2’s living world season has apparently been delayed

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You might have noticed it's Tuesday, and there's been no big trailer drop for the next Guild Wars 2 living world episode. That's behind...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s A Bug in the System (part 2)

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I have had plenty of time to digest the rest of Guild Wars 2's  A Bug in the System since the first part of my...

ArenaNet answers a slew of classic Guild Wars questions

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Guild Wars 1 may have been supplanted and largely deemed obsolete by its sequel, but rest assured, there still exists a multitude of fans...

Massively Overthinking: The case for rarity and randomness in MMO monetization

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Last week, Guild Wars 2's Crystin Cox gave a monetization interview to Gamasutra during which she made one specific argument I wanted to pull...
Now imagine you're dragging a sack.

Guild Wars 2 posts small patch, plans Classic Guild Wars retrospective Q&A

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Guild Wars 2's patch this week isn't a whopper like the balancing patch, but it does fix the nasty event bug in Bugtide Coast...
Pictured: Deep hurting.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 171: Bless you, my subscriber

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Bless Online, Elder Scrolls Online Summerset, Worlds Adrift, Pantheon, Skull & Bones, and The Division 2, with mailbag questions on the Eastern MMO stigma and Sea of Thieves' new MMO paradigm.

Global Chat: Dipping back into MMO underwater combat

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was remarkably reluctant to enter into the field of MMORPGs despite being a perfect candidate...
Notably after!

Guild Wars 2 game director talks about the free market and lootboxes

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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...
Oh, you're busy, we can come back later.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 170: Mild West Online

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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

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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?

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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?

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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...
So, fine.

Classic Guild Wars 1 just got a huge graphics update

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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