#farewellMassively

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Posted by: Siphaed.9235

Siphaed.9235

The website Massively.com is closing it’s doors this upcoming Tuesday on the 3rd. It is a decade old website that is/was the go-to site for MMO news and a subsidiary of Joystiq (also going away). This is thanks in part to AOL’s corporate overlords killing off websites -profit or not- to try to streamline their company structure.

Why is this related to Guild Wars 2?
Flameseeker Chronicles was a weekly article started years before Guild Wars 2’s launch and has stuck with the game through good and bad times.
http://massively.joystiq.com/category/flameseeker-chronicles

It’s dead now.

Bog Otter got featured there quite a lot, which helped spread his video’s fame with extra hits. He was even picked up and hired by the company, sadly only to be laid off last year when AOL did a huge hack job against them.

Rubi Bayer, GW2’s Content Marketing Manager, used to write for Massively and was picked up from there by Arena Net.

The website will be missed. Here’s hoping that they’ll find a way to get their own site running with the same team of writers. I say a tip of the hat to all of Massively’s team from GW2’s community.

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Posted by: Lazaar.9123

Lazaar.9123

Yeah, it’s a real shame, it was something I liked reading. :c

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Posted by: TheDaiBish.9735

TheDaiBish.9735

’Tis sad news indeed.

Massively was the site responsible for my introduction into the world of Tyria when GW2 was announced all them years ago, back when Rubi was running the Flameseeker Prophecies column; naturally, this also got me interested in the first Guild Wars.

Here’s hoping they start something up.

Life is a journey.
Time is a river.
The door is ajar.