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The Stream Team: Connecting the Pieces in Guild Wars 2
Between the giant twisted marionette and Scarlett's little lair, chapter 5 of Guild Wars 2's Living world Season 1 has been quite interesting to...
The Stream Team: Towers and toxic spores in Guild Wars 2
It took Massively OP's MJ a long while to finally complete enough events to continue Chapter 4 of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season...
Perfect Ten: 10 small Guild Wars 2 details that make it special
I find that there's this special window of time that happens when you return to an old favorite MMO that shouldn't be missed. It's...
The Stream Team: What Lies Beneath Guild Wars 2
With the launch of new content in Guild Wars 2 today, Massively OP's MJ is taking a short break from her Living World Season...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s What Lies Beneath, the next End of Dragons story, has launched
Happy anniversary to Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons expansion! Can you believe it has been a whole year? In some ways I feel...
The Stream Team: Battling Aetherblades Guild Wars 2
After a rocky start in Guild Wars 2's Sky Pirates, Massively OP's MJ is ready to take the fight right to the Aetherblades. She'll...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Guild Wars 2 appears to be dropping living world structure in favor of larger, more consistent updates
As promised, Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet has issued its developer blog on long-term plans, and it's not just prattle: The studio is planning...
The Stream Team: Forging through Guild Wars 2’s first fractals
More mini Molten Furnace? Well, it gives achievements, so Massively OP's MJ says yes! When Guild Wars 2 originally took away Living World Season...
One Shots: Five easy steps to dragon enslavement
Step one: Find a dragon that's been shunned from the rest of its pack. Step two: Befriend the dragon with copious amounts of ripple-striped...
The Stream Team: Starting Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 1 for the first time
Now that Massively OP's MJ has finally completed Guild Wars 2's personal story, she's ready to dive into Living World Season 1. It's a...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best value MMOs going into 2023
Every year when I do this post, I muse about what "value" actually means for MMOs because it's actually a tricky proposition and that...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Guild Wars 2 says that 2022 saw more new players than any year since 2015
It's been quite the year for Guild Wars 2 -- and ArenaNet wants you to know it. The hard-working studio took a moment to...
The Daily Grind: How do you view other players in the MMO landscape?
If you've ever played a fully or mostly dead MMORPG (and I have), then you'll know that super-eerie feeling that comes with traversing a...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s S1 reboot with episode 5, The Battle for Lion’s Arch
It's finally here! The most memorable, most important part of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 1 story. The moment we've all been waiting...
Guild Wars 2 players re-live the Battle for Lion’s Arch next week as S1E5 returns
Since End of Dragons' big rollout, Guild Wars 2 has been rereleasing remastered and reimagined versions of every episode of its original living world...
Massively Overthinking: Do gaming ‘tourists’ ruin MMOs?
Yes, I know that's a provocative title. Yes, we're gonna talk about it with some nuance. It's a topic inspired by a Reddit thread...
The Daily Grind: Do you engage in ‘mapping’ in explorable MMORPGs?
A while back, we did a Daily Grind on "vestigial organ" design in MMOs, and I mentioned Guild Wars 2's leveling system as being...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s restored S1E4 Tower of Nightmares
Here we are at the penultimate episode of Guild Wars 2's restored and retooled Season 1 content! The pieces are finally starting to fall...
