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The Daily Grind: What’s your one wish/prediction for BlizzCon 2016?
BlizzCon 2016 kicks off today;Â in fact, our first liveblog covering the opening ceremonies begins this afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT. And we've already pretty...
The Daily Grind: Does bigger content in an MMO feel more epic to you?
The tradition of making big plot stuff happen in big groups is not unique to World of Warcraft, but it was one of the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best fishing system?
OK, I'll freely admit that I am not one for fishing in MMORPGs. I know that many games have it and that there's a...
The Daily Grind: Are you a ‘leaver’ in MMORPGs?
If there's one you never wanted to be labeled in classic Guild Wars, it was "leaver" -- the kind of person who'd leave a group...
The Daily Grind: Are conventions worth it for MMOs without big announcements?
This year marked both another fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV and another BlizzCon for World of Warcraft (among other games). BlizzCon, however, looks...
The Daily Grind: What kind of humor do you prefer in MMORPGs?
Humor has to be one of the most subjective elements (and a sadly neglected Captain Planet powerset). Most of us like humor, like to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO doesn’t have mounts — and needs them?
Let's talk mounts and MMOs.
When Star Wars Galaxies launched, it did not have vehicles. It had neither speederbikes nor or ridable tauntauns. For almost six...
The Daily Grind: When should holiday events in MMOs be ‘finished’?
The holiday events in Final Fantasy XI are done. They still run, of course; around the same time every year, bang! Holiday event arrives...
The Daily Grind: If you had to start over in MMOs, what would you do?
Let us imagine that today, an extremely clumsy MMO employee stumbled into the server room with an armful of magnets, tripped, and somehow erased...
The Daily Grind: Is the lack of an official server for an MMO a dealbreaker?
In this midst of a newsroom discussion about Hero's Song last week, Justin, Eliot and I found an unusual chunk of common ground: All...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve played a single MMO without breaks?
I'm not actually sure what MMO I've played the longest without a single straight-up break. If I haven't unsubscribed, it's not really a break....
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite type of MMO crafting?
If you ever told someone that you like crafting in MMOs, you know that this is such a broad and general statement as to...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been propositioned in an MMO for loot?
Get your grimaces and side-eyes on: Kotaku put a piece out last week about "sugar daddies" in MMOs, proving once again that this genre is...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you think is more important than people realize?
Here at Massively Overpowered, we talk a lot about MMOs. (Shocking, I know.) Some of that means covering games that other people just plain...
The Daily Grind: What’s your MMO difficulty threshold?
As a long-term veteran of The Secret World, I am no stranger to the concept of "brutal masochistic difficulty" in MMORPGs. At times, I...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever memorialized one of your MMORPG characters?
I got misty-eyed in my Ultima Online video last week when during the tour of a true elder game, I visited a memorial to...
The Daily Grind: How much information should accompany an expansion announcement for an MMO?
It goes without saying that I am happy about Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. But I am also kind of annoyed that the expansion's announcement...
The Daily Grind: What made you try out your first MMORPG?
For today's Daily Grind, I'm not asking which MMOÂ you played first, and I'm not asking about your formative experiences. I'm asking why you came...
The Daily Grind: Are automatic newbie guilds useful in MMOs?
One interesting concept that I've started to see pop up in more MMOs as of late is the establishment of an automatic beginner guild....
The Daily Grind: Will Blizzard announce vanilla WoW servers at BlizzCon 2016?
BlizzCon kicks off in just a few short weeks, and already expectations are high. Unsubstantiated Diablo 4 rumors have begun circulating, and the Nostalrius...
