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The Daily Grind: What aborted MMORPG do you wish had seen the light of day?
So who remembers the Nintendo "gigaleak"? Probably no one, since it got covered back in July, which in 2020 measurements was at least five...
The Daily Grind: Do you play on your MMO’s public test server?
ArcheAge has the honor of inspiring today's Daily Grind, as I was writing a piece about ArcheAge's next update coming to the PTS and...
The Daily Grind: What ‘lost’ content from your favorite MMO do you wish would be restored?
A while back, YouTuber Wooden Potatoes did a video invoking the "Guild Wars 2 graveyard" of lost profession skills. I... love stuff like this,...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite crowd control class in MMORPGs?
I know that crowd controllers as a standalone class have long since fallen out of fashion - most MMORPG players don't even remember when...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMO quests you refuse to do?
Today's Daily Grind comes to us courtesy of MOP's Carlo, who is really not about this one quest in Black Desert.
"So I'm questing in...
The Daily Grind: What MMO really shouldn’t attempt a classic server?
Back in August, Standing Stone Games told players to stop trying to make a classic Lord of the Rings Online server happen. It is...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst mount in all of MMO land?
During the MOP Podcast at the top of September, Justin and I answered a fun question from Aldristravan about terrible MMO mounts. It turned...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about character boosting in MMOs?
To clarify right off the bat, I don't meant elo boosting as in MOBAs; I mean using character boosts, either paid or otherwise, in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best ‘affordable’ MMO?
We're fast approaching the end of 2020, which means we'll be cranking up our end-of-the-year machine with some of our recurring pieces. One of...
The Daily Grind: What does the future of (World of) Warcraft look like?
Usually, Activision-Blizzard investor calls are boring as heck and I wish I didn't have to sit through all the Call of Duty and Candy...
The Daily Grind: Is the ‘forever game’ philosophy healthy for MMOs?
A few weeks back, Remnant from the Ashes creative director David Adams did an interview on Gamasutra where he discussed how his team very...
The Daily Grind: If a different studio could remake your favorite MMO, which one would you pick?
MOP reader Bruno recently tweeted me a topic so great I begged him to let me pitch it to all of you. He was...
The Daily Grind: Are we ever going to see the ‘VR revolution’ – and do you care?
Polygon put out a brutal piece this week on virtual reality titled The VR revolution has been 5 minutes away for 8 years and...
The Daily Grind: What explorer-friendly mechanics should be in more MMOs?
When Final Fantasy XIV's Futures Rewritten patch arrives next month, it includes a nifty feature called explorer mode that will essentially allow players to...
The Daily Grind: Isn’t it time to put an end to land rushes in MMORPGs?
When Final Fantasy XIV's 5.35 patch arrived this week, the hardcore XIV players on the Massively OP team had very mixed reactions. One triumphed...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs out there could use a level squish of their own?
MOP backer and fellow blogger Terminally Nerdy pinged us a few weeks back with an interesting conundrum: He was trying to think of other...
The Daily Grind: Are day and night cycles a good or bad thing in MMOs?
As I type this, I'm waiting on a video game to give me some daylight so I can snap a picture for another article...
The Daily Grind: Is there a location you wish your fave MMO could explore – but never will?
I have two examples in mind for today's Daily Grind. The first, of course, is Cantha: I've been a broken record on wanting the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the goofiest not-an-MMO acronym you’ve seen an MMO try to adopt?
There was a phase our genre went through about five or so years ago when every new MMO - even the ones that most...
The Daily Grind: Are you honestly having The Fun in your MMO of choice?
This is a serious question! A few weeks ago, I was talking to one of our writers about a game he was playing and writing...
