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]
the daily grind
The Daily Grind: What do you want your ‘legacy’ in your current MMO to be?
A few months back, a player on the Pantheon forums posted a neat question asking fellow players what they wanted to be known for...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you’ve wanted to quit, but you couldn’t?
Very few of us are in a situation wherein large men are perched behind us claiming that something horrible will happen to our loved...
The Daily Grind: Whose MMO recommendations do you trust?
You want to hear a fun secret? You might think that we at Massively OP are all content being the tastemakers of the MMO...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually engage with player-generated content in MMOs?
Two videos inspired today's Daily Grind. One is a recent episode of Extra Credits about player-generated content in games - what we've always called...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest MMO boycott you’ve run?
There are a lot of games I don't have any desire to play, and then there's Star Wars: The Old Republic. I still have...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs do away with stat armor entirely?
While I'm all about progression and acquisition for my MMO characters as they journey through the levels, I'm less and less enthused about collecting...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMO experiences you feel you missed out on that can’t possibly be recreated now?
A while back, at the height of the WoW Classic hype, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit by an author who expressed...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most awesome MMORTS title out there?
Do you ever have one of those moments where somebody asks you something that's just ever so slightly adjacent to your field of work...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever mentored a new player in an older MMO?
It was a few years back when my wife decided to give Final Fantasy XI another shot and finally found it really clicking for her....
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you wish could live forever?
You all know that I love my hypotheticals by now, so here's another one for our daily discussion period. Imagine that you have the...
The Daily Grind: How do you deal with multi-timezone MMO guilds?
There was a neat thread on the MMORPG subreddit a few weeks back about how to organize MMO guilds across multiple timezones. If you...
The Daily Grind: What would get you to try out a battle royale title?
Battle royale games are both the newest flash-in-the-pan and one of the oldest genres out there; it's not exactly a new idea to put...
The Daily Grind: What role do you like playing in a regular MMO group?
If you can work around the complexities of multiple people's schedules, there's a delight to be found in scheduling a regular group night every...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs do you keep installed long-term, even when you’re not playing them?
I tend to be the kind of person who keeps MMOs and other video games installed a long time, especially if I've gone to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish the devs would just. stop. touching?
A few weeks back, MOP's Not So Massively columnist Tyler Edwards penned a piece on the problems plaguing Heroes of the Storm, and as...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best non-combat PvP?
PvP is about more than just getting into the dirt with your opponent and seeing who drops first. Sure, it frequently is exactly that, and...
The Daily Grind: If you could bring back an MMO for a single day, what would you do in it?
Here's the good news: You've been handed a device that has the power to resurrect a sunsetted MMORPG and activate servers for you and...
The Daily Grind: Do you set MMO monthly goals?
There is a trend among us MMO bloggers that started a few years back in which we outline our gaming goals for each month...
The Daily Grind: How important do you think player hubs are in MMOs?
It was really obvious how bad Warlords of Draenor was going to be when the expansion shifted its player centers. There were two cities that...
The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?
Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
