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The Daily Grind: What was the biggest MMO trainwreck nobody noticed last year?
Every year, we elevate certain stories with awards - we pluck out the biggest surprise, the most exciting story, the story we wish we...
Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2024?
It's pretty much a given that every year when we announce our MMO of the year, someone's going to hop into the comments and...
Leaderboard: What was the (next) best *new* MMO or MMO-adjacent game of 2024?
Longtime readers of MOP will know that when we give out our MMO of the year award, we do not limit it to just...
The Daily Grind: Did you get much MMO gaming time over the holidays?
As I write this, I'm on the final day of a sort-of-two-week vacation, after which I'll have to jump back into my regular routine...
The Daily Grind: What MMORPGs are you no longer anticipating in 2025?
I hate to say it, but the longer a game stays on my curiosity list, the more likely it is to fall off the...
The Daily Grind: Which game or studio made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2024?
So here's another fun annual Daily Grind that always gets people good and angry. And believe it or not, I'm not going to nominate...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMORPG right now at the top of 2025?
Your kneejerk answer to this morning's Daily Grind is probably going to be Star Citizen, and I get that urge. But in reality, most...
The Daily Grind: What would you really like to be wrong about in the MMO space in 2025?
It was a late-arriving announcement in 2024 that The Elder Scrolls Online would blow up its content cadence and suddenly stop providing nearly as...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the brightest future heading into 2025?
Consider this end-of-the-year Daily Grind a sort of hopeful counterpart to the "stormiest future" fauxward, as instead of talking about the MMOs we're worried...
The Daily Grind: Will you Kickstart any MMOs in 2025?
It's actually been several years since we had a pure MMORPG blow up on Kickstarter, but we've certainly seen survival sandboxes and mini-MMOs do...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best community as of 2024?
This is one of my favorite Daily Grinds of the end-of-the-year season - wanna know why? It's because I get to compliment MMORPG gamers!...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best PvE experience in 2024?
I think I tried and failed to disambiguate PvE and PvM earlier this year - the terms are just too synonymous for modern gamers....
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG trend of 2024?
Layoffs.
OK, that one's a gimmie - and it hurts a lot more than MMORPGs. So let me pitch another one:
A bunch of MMOs either...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?
The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best character customization as of 2024?
Star Citizen has an unfortunately bad reputation... well, kind of everywhere, including among its own dearest fans, but today I want to call out...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best console or mobile experience in 2024?
There was a time not all that long ago when this question would've been inane since we had so few top-notch MMORPGs on console...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you see yourself trying in 2025?
I have friends who are super excited for Path of Exile 2 but have not yet picked up the game. Not because they don't...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best fashion in 2024?
Fashion is the true endgame of MMORPGs, unless you've fully embraced your inner murderhobo. And personally, I have a very specific aesthetic in MMOs....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphics as of 2024?
So listen, I know that MMORPG graphics are in the eye of the beholder. I'm asking you to be the beholder today. Some people...
