the daily grind

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]

why would you do that

The Daily Grind: What’s the most jaw-droppingly absurd behavior you’ve seen in MMO group content?

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Sometimes people do things that are dumb in MMOs. We know and accept this. Sometimes people think that dancing on a mailbox in World of...

The Daily Grind: So, do you think Google’s Stadia will revolutionize gaming?

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Yesterday's Google presentation and announcement of Stadia - and all its attendant accoutrements - set the internet as well as our staff chattering about...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever regretted not playing MMORPGs?

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A few weeks back there was a post on the MMORPG subreddit from a dude who said he actually regretted not playing MMOs more....

The Daily Grind: Does size really matter in MMOs? PvP battle size, that is

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Over the last couple of weeks, we've seen a big push for MMO studios to talk up their numbers - and by that I...
Yes, we're all very impressed over here.

The Daily Grind: What would cause you to stop playing your main MMO?

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In the broadest terms, it's easy to know what makes you stop playing an MMO. Specifically, you're just not having fun any more, or...
yay sure

The Daily Grind: When have MMOs successfully put a clever spin on old tropes?

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We can all point to the many, many video game and pop culture tropes that infest MMORPGs to both our amusement and annoyance. From...
Big time.

The Daily Grind: Has your MMO of choice ever had a major data loss?

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When Justin mentioned to me on this week's podcast the rumor that Lord of the Rings Online's and Dungeons and Dragons Online's multi-day downtime...
Pretty, still.

The Daily Grind: What currently operating MMO would benefit the most from a visual overhaul?

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Let's stop being realistic for a moment. Let's assume that a game currently running can get a complete visual overhaul. Not changing the overall...

The Daily Grind: Where does your MMO character sit on a D&D alignment chart?

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Modern computer roleplaying games -- including, yes, MMORPGs -- owe a great debt to Dungeons & Dragons for many points of inspiration and design....
No, saying that you don't care is not actually an answer.

The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG for corpse runs?

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Pretty much every MMORPG has some sort of corpse run - that is, when you die, you have to run some sort of gauntlet...

The Daily Grind: What do you think of Torchlight Frontiers so far?

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Torchlight is up there with my most favorite franchises of all time. The existing multiplayer ARPGs are just pure fun, with bubbly colorful graphics...
Contains some monsters.

The Daily Grind: Do you try out MMOs in well-maintained maintenance modes?

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It's not hard to play Final Fantasy XI or Guild Wars at this point. Both titles are in maintenance mode, yes; they've gotten their last major...

The Daily Grind: If MMOs scaled back on combat, what should fill that space?

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I know that I'm not the first or the last person to accuse modern MMOs of being far to combat-centric in their design, but...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for getting your character super drunk?

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Fallout 76's dev blog a few weeks ago about its upcoming brewing and distilling skills - which are actually surprisingly detailed - got me...
Bingpot.

The Daily Grind: What are your expectations from buy-to-play MMOs in 2019?

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Because I am old I still remember the halcyon days when the original Guild Wars shocked the world with its plan to serve as a...

The Daily Grind: Does Neverwinter or DDO handle the D&D license better?

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Ooh Justin, them's fightin' words! We don't often have the luxury of seeing two full-fledged MMORPGs handle the same intellectual property, especially in vastly different...

The Daily Grind: Do you game on a budget?

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Last week, a friend of mine made an offhand comment about how much something dear to her cost, joking that it wouldn't seem like...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you wish would come to console?

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I've never been a console-first kind of gamer, so I've never felt a great pull to invest heavily in consoles, even when more major...
Yay, sort of?

The Daily Grind: What would it take to get you to try a battle royale game?

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The big thing these days is Apex Legends, which is the sudden success story to mirror Fortnite's overnight success, which itself mirrored the overnight...
Kapwing!

The Daily Grind: Which MMO battles did you survive by the skin of your teeth?

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There's nothing more exhilarating than emerging victorious from a fight that you thought you would lose. The other day I was mindlessly going through...

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