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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO story you like to tell?
MMORPGs are story machines. I don't just mean that they're games in which the writers tell you a bunch of tales, although that is...
The Daily Grind: What are some useful alternatives to the term ‘pay-to-win’?
Deep into the Relay article on whether Star Citizen is pay-to-win that we covered a while back, the author, Commander Llama, said something I...
The Daily Grind: Do you have your profanity filter on in MMOs?
You may not realize this from reading what I write on this site, but I curse a lot in real life. It's not appropriate...
The Daily Grind: What kind of superhero do you want to make in an MMO?
While City of Heroes is long gone, you can't keep a good cape down. With a couple of superhero MMORPGs out on the market...
The Daily Grind: How important is person-to-person trading in an MMORPG?
Earlier in May, Neowiz clarified that the western version of Bless Online, like Black Desert, would eschew player-to-player trading, sticking instead to just an...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time somebody recommended an MMO you actually wound up liking?
Across the MMORPG universe, gamers are always asking, what should I play? It's in our comments, on Reddit, in every guild and global chat...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best in-game cosmetic options?
With the changes made in Legion, World of Warcraft wound up with a pretty great system for cosmetic outfits. Unfortunately, it also has some...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best mount selection?
Lately my attention has been arrested by all of the news coming out about Battle for Azeroth's mounts. I know it's totally dorky, but...
Massively Overthinking: The case for rarity and randomness in MMO monetization
Last week, Guild Wars 2's Crystin Cox gave a monetization interview to Gamasutra during which she made one specific argument I wanted to pull...
The Daily Grind: What was your first ‘wow’ moment in an MMO?
Your first MMO tends to stick in your mind in a certain way. The first time you realize that you're in a game with...
The Daily Grind: What’s your underdog MMO?
It's easy to take pot shots at Champions Online these days, what with Cryptic hyping up its duration after years of stagnant development. But...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel an obligation to ‘finish’ the MMOs you start, even if it feels like ‘homework’?
A quote from legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro I saw on Twitter the other day is fast on the way to becoming my mantra. io9 transcribed...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite PvPvE MMO or experience?
It feels like I've been dealing with a bit of a theme lately: PvPvE games. PvPvE usually seems to mean simple PvE mechanics that...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run unauthorized MMO modifications?
In the earliest days of Final Fantasy XI, you couldn't alt-tab without crashing the game. Thus, the Windower program, a little add-on designed to...
The Daily Grind: Do you create completionist characters in MMOs?
Despite no longer being a young buck with scads of extra time on his hands, every so often I find myself foolishly rolling up...
The Daily Grind: Should running multiple MMO accounts be considered pay-to-win?
In the comments of a recent Daily Grind, MOP commenter Sally reminded me that a certain MOP writer who shall remain nameless (Larry!) had...
The Daily Grind: Is lack of text chat in an MMO a dealbreaker for you?
I wouldn't be able to play TERA on console. Not simply because I lack the console it's available on; that could be fixed by...
The Daily Grind: What made City of Heroes work so well?
Although City of Heroes is not coming back (I think we all need to come to terms with that), many successors are waiting in...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever walked away from an MMO over a studio’s treatment of its playerbase?
Star Wars Galaxies' NGE is one of the MMORPG genre's favorite bugbears: We pull it out as a warning, a label of doom, every...
The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMORPG to offer an optional sub that isn’t pay-to-win?
Last week, in the comments under the Bless optional subscription brouhaha article, I made an offhand comment that apparently got MOP commenter Sally's gears...
