No, it’s not a slow news day; it’s just The Daily Grind, a long-running morning feature in which the Massively Overpowered writers pose gaming-related questions to the MMORPG community. [Follow this feature’s RSS feed]
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The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best login screen?
You might think this is a trivial thing, but I heartily disagree, and all I have to do is point to a login screen...
The Daily Grind: Which musical act do you wish would show up in your core MMO?
Last week, we saw no less than three announcements of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles collaborating with musical acts and pop stars in their worlds....
The Daily Grind: What has your biggest MMO Kickstarter disappointment been to date?
The complete non-starter of Pathfinder Online did not surprise me. It was about what I expected, and it always struck me as one of those...
The Daily Grind: Do you like pop-up objectives in MMOs?
Thinking back to my first days in WildStar, I think my brain went on sensory overload due to all of the Stuff that kept...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most useful crafting profession in your MMO?
While I'm never much one to craft in MMOs, that's usually because I don't see most crafting professions as beneficial in relation to how...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever led an MMO guild?
Leadership in a guild has never been something I have sought. It has happened more than once, but literally every single time it was mostly...
The Daily Grind: Are you planning to buy a next-gen console?
So at this point, we've now seen PlayStation 5 preorders go live, in a clusterfudge Sony has already apologized for, and we've seen Xbox...
The Daily Grind: What location in your favorite MMO have you only recently discovered?
Until last week, somehow I had heard of the Agrilat Swamp but never actually visited it in Star Wars Galaxies. SWG Legends' @RoarAshley tweeted...
The Daily Grind: What’s your ‘palate cleanser’ MMO or MMO zone?
A few weeks back, Justin said something on the MOP Podcast that stuck with me. He was talking about how he liked to go...
The Daily Grind: Is personal challenge or group challenge more important to you in an MMO?
In any kind of MMO, there are a lot of different challenges to endure. They do, however, tend to split a fair bit between personal...
The Daily Grind: What upcoming MMOs have fallen off your radar?
The joke around the Massively OP office is now that Chris is covering Star Citizen news with his angle of expertise, the rest of...
The Daily Grind: How important is player-generated content to you in MMOs?
When I look at the current crop of top MMORPGs, I'm dismayed to realize that not a single one of them has anything significant...
The Daily Grind: What common MMO developer reassurance doesn’t reassure you at all?
At one point, I was tossing an idea around for a Perfect Ten column about a Kickstarter drinking game. It didn't go anywhere, ultimately...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO for pure grinding?
I have a few MMOs that I go to when I want traditional questing or dungeon hopping, but when I'm in the mood for...
The Daily Grind: How much do MMOs succeed on faith vs. mechanics and fanbases?
A while back, MOP's Eliot, Chris, and I were discussing Last Oasis and why it didn't take off. Collectively, I think we determined it...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest stunt you’ve ever seen players pull in an MMO?
I've seen a lot of weird stuff in my day as an MMORPG player, but I'd never seen anyone eat 999 eggs before Ross...
The Daily Grind: Do you try to be patient with new players in MMOs?
Patience is a virtue. It is also something not everyone is very good at - and I include myself in this particular batch because...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best in-game cutscenes and cinematics?
There are a lot of ways that stories can be told in MMORPGs, but one of the most straight-forward and visually exciting is the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst MMO you’ve ever played?
Earlier this month, I first heard about Josh Strife Hayes, a YouTuber doing noble work by playing his way through a pile of unloved...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had an accomplishment in an MMO you didn’t realize until later?
Back when vanilla World of Warcraft was a new thing, I soloed Hogger on my Paladin. This did not strike me as all that...
