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The Daily Grind: Is an MMO’s shutdown announcement better or worse than shutdown suspicions?
This is a post about Marvel Heroes. It's also a post about Firefall. In fact, it's a post about all of the games where...
The Daily Grind: What did you misunderstand the first time through your MMO?
I have long resigned myself to the fact that no matter how much time I take in my first playthrough of an MMO, I'm...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time an MMO made you rethink your hobby?
This past week, my husband has been obsessed with Succubox. It's a satirical clicker game where you start out by click-fighting monsters and buying...
The Daily Grind: Are you celebrating World of Warcraft’s anniversary?
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, but unlike many such years, it's not "just another Thursday" to everyone else. No, this marks the...
The Daily Grind: What MMO tips do you wish you had known when you were a newbie?
One of the factors that keeps me from trying out more MMORPGs than I do is that there's a certain element of anxiety that...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?
Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost your MMO account information?
The answer for me is yes. I absolutely have. In one particular case, it was heartbreaking but finally proved recoverable; my original Final Fantasy...
The Daily Grind: What’s keeping you from going back to a favorite MMO?
It's weird to think that I've been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic on and off since its release. Seems like such a long...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
The Daily Grind: How should MMOs handle old limited-time rewards?
Out of all the various event rewards I've gotten in Final Fantasy XIV, Legacy status is the only one that a new player couldn't...
The Daily Grind: How can MMOs repurpose older zones?
One of the best gaming experiences that I had this past year was going through the entirety of the Bingo Boffin storyline from start...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on WoW’s proposed new PvP system?
Buried in the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth reveals earlier this month was the huge PvP news that eventually, PvP servers, like the...
The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?
Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...
The Daily Grind: How do you pick a mount in MMOs?
In some games, like Guild Wars 2, there's more going on with mounts than just "run faster." Frequently, you'll have more important choices to...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMORPG combat pet?
As a die-hard fan of pet classes in MMOs, I've played just about any that were available in the games that I've tried. Naturally,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the funniest MMORPG?
During last weekend's BlizzCon opening ceremonies, nothing got me like Hearthstone's expansion presentation, and it's not the first time Blizzard's card game has done so....
The Daily Grind: Have server merges ever driven you away from an MMO for good?
When I saw Star Wars: The Old Republic's whole promotion for Knights of the Old Republic, I was momentarily tempted to log back in...
The Daily Grind: What older MMO systems do you wish devs would upgrade?
Perhaps few things bug me so much as when developers introduce a meaty gameplay system into an MMORPG only to neglect or abandon it...
The Daily Grind: Will you be playing World of Warcraft’s Classic servers?
I think it's safe to say, after all the Nostalrius and legacy server drama from last year, that Blizzard has surprised a lot of...
The Daily Grind: Will you be buying World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion?
In last week's Daily Grind about what it would take to get you back into World of Warcraft, a whole lot of our commenters...
