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The Daily Grind: Have you ever regretted funding a Kickstarted MMO?
Look, if you want to call me a doomsayer or a pessimist or whatever when it comes to Kickstarter and MMOs, you have every...
The Daily Grind: What MMO zone biome puts you in an adventuring mood?
Two of my favorite MMORPG zones are World of Warcraft's Mulgore and WildStar's Algoroc. Both managed to catch some of the spirit and flavor...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best camping system?
The first MMORPG I ever played had a camping skill. You chopped down some wood for kindling, clicked to build a fire, and then...
The Daily Grind: How important is your MMO circle of friends to enjoying the game?
I've been fortunate, over the past couple of years, to make some really good friends in MMOs. Those friends are not the reason why...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best sky views?
I know it's a simple and basic thing, but I absolutely adore a great skybox in my MMORPGs. There's something about looking up at...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a PvE game with full item decay?
One of the most insightful comments I ever saw about Darkfall (yes, Darkfall) was that, realistically, in a game with open PvP and full...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you follow that you’re not playing?
It should be said that Massively OP's site mission is nearly impossible, since we're trying to keep tabs on and cover the news for...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the worst possible maps?
When I think back about the ways in which MMOs have improved over the 15-ish years I've been playing them, my thoughts invariably turn...
The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2017?
Last year, Massively OP commenter deekay_zero proposed this topic as a joke award, but when we ran it as a Daily Grind, it prompted...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to roleplay in as of 2018?
Half an eternity ago, my merry band of MMO PvPers and raiders ran headlong into a gang of roleplayers, and it changed my guild...
The Daily Grind: What’s the exact MMO character you would never play?
While I typically love character creation screens in RPGs, when it comes to MMOs, I find that I limit myself more often than not....
The Daily Grind: Where do you turn for your MMO guidance?
The great part about MMOs is that they've embraced one sort of crowdsourcing almost from the moment they first existed, and that's crowdsourcing information....
The Daily Grind: Would you be interested in a retro-styled MMORPG?
As it's been about a year now, I know that pretty much nobody remembers John Smedley's ill-fated Hero's Song. For a while there, we...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future looking into 2018?
One of the most popular annual roundups we do is on the healthiest MMORPGs in the genre, both because it reminds us that the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studio has the best communication?
A few weeks ago, we ran a poll asking MMO players how they want developers to communicate. What sparked it was our readers' annoyance...
The Daily Grind: Any MMO resolutions for 2018?
It's almost 2018, and that means we can bid farewell to one year and start a new one that... well, will probably feel much...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMO to play at the end of 2017?
We talk about money a lot here on Massively OP. Business models. Stupidly expensive things we've bought. Annoying cash shops. Even things we'd like...
The Daily Grind: What’s your earliest MMO memory?
As I've alluded in the past, my earliest MMO memory is about doing something that I would later learn was an enormous faux pas....
The Daily Grind: Will you kickstart any MMOs in 2018?
I didn't back a single video game in 2017, which is a first for me. The year before, I backed Hero's Song, and we...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best level up and mission complete sounds?
Indulge me for a few seconds and click on this link. And this one. And this, and this, and this, and this.
Those tiny sound effects...
