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Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMO gear obsolescence problem
Last weekend, Amazon told players in a New World Discord Q&A that the expansion still on the way will essentially nullify existing gear to...
The Stream Team: Investigating Fort Salma for Mordremoth’s mayhem in Guild Wars 2
While investigating Scarlet's insanity... er, work with the ley lines, Massively OP's MJ discovered that Mordremoth appears to be targeting waypoints on the Asuran...
Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ second chapter, What Lies Within, launches May 23
Guild Wars 2's next living story chapter is officially launching a week from today on May 23rd. It's called What Lies Within and will...
NCsoft Q1 2023: NCsoft confirms Throne & Liberty’s delay to back half of 2023
NCsoft's Q1 2023 financials have arrived, and it wasn't the best quarter for the Korean gaming giant, which saw both mobile and PC games...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Entanglements
In Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 2, MassivelyOP's MJ has been learning more about her former foe, Scarlet, as well as finding more...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What we learned (and didn’t) from Guild Wars 2’s spring 2023 roadmap
The most nerve-wracking thing about being an MMORPG player is uncertainty. MMO players don't like change, and when a change is teased, many of...
The Soapbox: MMO housing is so much more than a frivolous feature
When The Sims launched in 2000, what seemed like a dull and laughable concept on paper proved to be one of the most compelling...
The Stream Team: Going to town for the Master of Peace in Guild Wars 2
Starting Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 2, investigating the Zephyrite presence in Dry top included a jumping puzzle achievement of doom, one that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
Guild Wars 2’s balance patch brings bugs, buffs, and boundaries on gambling
As promised, the next spring balance patch is upon Guild Wars 2 today, although it's apparently been a bit of a technical trainwreck thus...
Guild Wars 2 teases next expansion and update and the plan for specs and balance in summer roadmap
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet is kicking off May with a new dev blog and roadmap today. Game director Josh Davis and crew begin...
Original Guild Wars maps can be explored outside of the game thanks to a community project
Do you ever have a hankering to return to your old stomping grounds and poke around every nook and cranny without being annoyed by...
One Shots: Gesundheit!
I can't imagine what it would be like to witness a T. Rex sneezing, but I can imagine that it wouldn't be a quiet,...
Guild Wars 2 improves trading post speed thanks to a software upgrade
An aging piece of Guild Wars 2's complicated software infrastructure has been replaced, and ArenaNet is here to tell you all about it. Basically,...
The Stream Team: Starting Season 2 of Guild Wars 2’s Living World
Now that's she's finally experienced Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 1, Massively OP's MJ is excited to go through the rest of the...
One Shots: The spice must flow
Feeling antsy because Funcom's Dune Awakening isn't here yet? Utakata has a decent substitute for you in Tower of Fantasy, apparently. Nothing like a...
Guild Wars 2 previews next week’s ‘outliers’ balance update
Lock up your kids and your spouses because Guild Wars 2 is moseying into town for another class balance showdown -- and there's no...
The Daily Grind: What are the best and worst horizontal progression systems in an MMORPG?
This morning, I want to talk about horizontal progression systems in MMOs, of which I am generally a fan! And I'm gonna start with...
The Stream Team: Taking back Lion’s Arch in Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 1
Scarlet has caused quite the ruckus in Guild Wars 2's Lion's Arch. Last week, Massively OP's MJ had to help evacuate it as explosions...
Guild Wars 2 tests map queueing feature, finishes DirectX 11 migration, and fixes the Elementalist exploit
Guild Wars 2 released a minor update today with some interesting implications for players trying to join specific maps that are already full.
"Players can...
