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The Daily Grind: What are your summer MMO goals?
Now that most schools are out and the heat has begun in earnest in the northern hemisphere, it's the perfect time to retreat into...
The Daily Grind: Do you take the lead in MMO groups?
There are many different sorts of leaders in group content. There are the people who are "leaders" in the sense that they set the...
The Daily Grind: How much dough have you dropped on Steam in its lifetime?
VentureBeat noticed this week that it's possible to figure out just how much money you've blown on video games, at least through Steam, by...
The Daily Grind: Do you carry a torch for any MMOs that were killed in development?
Maybe I'm alone on this, but the more I examine MMO history, the more it troubles me how many potentially great games never even...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer ‘work’ simulation MMOs to more fantastic game worlds?
In the comments of my piece on Raph Koster's book last week, a commenter brought up the idea that mimicking the real world in...
The Daily Grind: What’s your biggest ever MMO splurge?
Ever since Trove launched its superhero-themed expansion Heroes, I've been hemming and hawing over buying the big mama upgrade package for the Vanguardian and...
The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs with expiration dates?
It's not a new phenomenon, because I recall seeing it back in Final Fantasy XI, someone saying proudly that he was happy to be...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO’s music brings back all the feels?
One of the reasons that I love and listen to MMO music so much -- other than it rocks, obviously -- is that it...
The Daily Grind: Does teaching toxic MMO gamers what they did wrong actually help?
As RPS reported this week, Valve has taken the relatively unusual step of making your Dota 2 and CSGO report cards semi-public - that is,...
The Daily Grind: What obligations do studios have to provide a griefing-free MMO environment?
There's some interesting stuff to be unpacked in a recent analysis of Conan Exiles that characterizes it as replete with griefing, racism, sexism, and general unmoderated...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle content lulls in MMORPGs?
MOP reader Joel recently wrote into us with a link to a Dark Legacy Comic (#634) that succinctly captures the problem of content lulls...
The Daily Grind: Will Fallout 76 be a griefer’s paradise or a gamer’s dream?
On Sunday night, the Massively OP staff gathered in our virtual office to watch and discuss the Bethesda conference. There really was a little...
The Daily Grind: Will you sub to EA’s new ‘Origin Access Premier’ service?
During EA Play this weekend, EA announced Origin Access Premier, its attempt at a subscription service on PC. For $100 a year, you'll basically...
The Daily Grind: Is zone-wide chat a good thing for MMOs?
The first MMO I ever played was Final Fantasy XI, which meant that I got used to the idea of having no zone-wide chat....
The Daily Grind: What MMO celebration do you never miss?
The first year that any MMORPG that I'm playing launches a new festival or holiday, I'm usually all over it. Sometimes I get too...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG vet reward you’ve ever gotten?
CCP Games rolled out a pretty sweet veteran reward for EVE Online vets this week ahead of the game's anniversary: Everybody who's been playing...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite non-combat ability in an MMO?
Combat abilities in MMOs are big, flashy, and usually leave a mangled corpse. That's why they're there. But sometimes you wind up with non-combat...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a new Guild Wars 1 expansion?
With all of the talk and revival of interest in classic Guild Wars, it's certainly been a great time to celebrate this beloved MMO...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel pressure to play MMOs for daily bonuses or experience events?
On Wednesdays, we farm gems.
In Trove, that is. That's because ever since Trion revamped the daily login system, players get a daily bonus for...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever tried to start fresh in a familiar MMO?
I have, on three occasions, tried to start Final Fantasy XI completely fresh. Ironically, this time it's working out very well; the past two...
