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In 2025, Guild Wars 2 took MassivelyOP’s awards for MMORPG of the Year, Expansion of the Year, Best MMORPG Business Model, and Best New MMO Class. Historical awards can be found in our annual debriefs.

Official Site: Guild Wars 2
Studio: ArenaNet/NCsoft
Launch Date: August 28, 2012
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid B2P (Cash Shop, No Sub, Paid Expansions)
Platform: PC

The Stream Team: Welcome to the jungle in Guild Wars 2’s Castora

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Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games We got the answers you want, honey, and creatures wild or tame We have got the people...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 566: Rock the Cradle of War

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Justin and Bree discuss EVE Online's Cradle of War, EverQuest Legends' beta, Spirit Crossing's housing, Throne and Liberty, and financials for NCsoft, Nexon, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in WoW, Outbound, Palia, SWG Legends, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on solo MMORPG sims and AI bots.

Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG tutorials are actually effective – vs. functionally useless?

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Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street dropped a random thoughtful Twitter thread this past weekend, remarking on how people learn in school - and how that translates...

NCsoft Q1 2026: Aion 2 made heaps of money, Guild Wars 2 saw its best quarter since 2017

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NCsoft turned in one hell of a Q1 financial report this week, and a large chunk of it comes from MMORPGs. Unsurprisingly, kind of...

Perfect Ten: 10 amazing MMO starter zones

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With how often we find ourselves starting up new characters and rolling alts in MMORPGs, it's no surprise that we develop a lot of...

The Stream Team: In Guild Wars 2, a sword can be bait and an elder dragon date

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Single sword seeks elder dragon for cozy walks through the Mists and impromptu visits to remote villages.  Before losing herself in Guild Wars 2's next...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 565: Happily Farever after

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, EVE Online's CCP Games aka Fenris Creations, Path of Exile 2, Farever, Reaper Actual, Daybreak financials, and Aliens 2, with adventures in WoW, FFXIV, Outbound, and SWG Legends, and a mailbag topic on Ultima Online rogue servers.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity update The Only Way is here

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It feels as if it's been a while since we had a gap this long between Guild Wars 2's major updates. While we got...

‘EVE continues’: EVE Online’s CCP Games rebrands as Fenris Creations, partners with Google DeepMind

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Last week, the year-old rumor that Pearl Abyss was preparing to sell EVE Online studio CCP Games after having bought it back in 2018...

The Stream Team: Sojourning at the Sunspear sanctuary in Guild Wars 2

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Massively OP's MJ has discovered that Kralkatorric's Branded can't penetrate underground in Guild Wars 2, so she's off to the ancient sanctuary of the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 564: Evercold or everwarmer?

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Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Evercold and patch 7.5, Guild Wars Reforged's mobile port and patch, Guild Wars 2's The Only Way, Aion 2, Embers of the Uncrowned, Palia's spring expansion, SWTOR's 7.9 and 8.0, EVE Online's CCP Games, Conan Exiles, Dune Awakening, and Nightingale, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Palia, Farever, and Loftia.

Guild Wars 2 formally reveals The Only Way’s new zone, Eternity’s Garden, coming May 12

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So we knew Guild Wars 2's next big thing - the third entry in the four-part Visions of Eternity expansion was coming next week....

The Daily Grind: Is gliding more fun than flying in MMORPGs?

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City of Heroes set an extremely high bar in 2004 when it rolled out to jaded MMORPG fans with real flight, hovering, and superjumping....

Massively Overthinking: Should MMOs reward players for content they were gonna do anyway?

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Last weekend, I was watching a video from YouTuber Berrohn that is, in a nutshell, about the perils of overgamification in life. He discusses...

Pearl Abyss has finally sold EVE Online studio CCP Games… to CCP Games’ own management

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Remember last summer when Korean media started rumbling about rumors that Pearl Abyss was trying to sell EVE Online company CCP Games? Probably not,...

Guild Wars 2 has begun teasing Visions of Eternity’s The Only Way, launching May 12

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Were Guild Wars 2 fans feeling a little left out of all the hype around Guild Wars' anniversary, patch, and mobile plans? Well, ArenaNet...

The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s A Star to Guide Us

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With her new mount in tow, MassivelyOP's MJ is ready to roll right back into Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 4, starting up...

MMORPG The Quinfall announces a new project to name and shame cheaters [Update: It’s live]

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One of the most amusing things about covering The Quinfall is that the devs at Vawraek Technology are fond of making eyebrow-raising proclamations in...

One Shots: A trot on the beach

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Who here loves long walks on the beach? Oh, we're gamers, we'd rather be home playing in virtual worlds... and taking virtual walks on...
Oh, Tybs.

Vague Patch Notes: The bad data problem with MMOs

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Do you want to know how many monthly active players Guild Wars 2 has? If so, I've got a math exercise for you. (If not,...

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