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The Daily Grind: What could MMO taverns do to get you to stick around?
I have vague memories of ArenaNet talking about Guild Wars 2 taverns prior to its launch and how these spaces would be more than...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the dumbest armor?
Back in February, PC Gamer put out a piece on the absolute dumbest character armor in gaming history. There's more than one MMORPG in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest scandal the MMORPG genre has ever seen?
Over the weekend in the Guild Wars 2 spyware article comments, a commenter remarked that Blizzard's Warden spyware was "the biggest scandal in MMOs"...
The Daily Grind: How diligent are you about making money in an MMO?
No one believes me when I say that I'm bad about making money in my main games. It's true, though; compared to the people...
The Daily Grind: Who is the best MMO villain?
Setting up and establishing a memorable villain is tricky business, especially in online games where players barrel through them like dominoes. We've fought so...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a ‘guilty pleasure’ MMO?
As comments and tweets and nastygrams in my inbox have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, it doesn't matter whether you've put in years of...
The Daily Grind: How long is too long for early access?
Let's be real here, there's no question in anyone's mind that DayZ has been in early access far longer than it should be. By...
The Daily Grind: How could death be more meaningful in MMOs without being annoying?
Personally, I don't think MMO developers should ever become complacent about game systems and copying them from other titles because that's the way they've...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs offer open-world challenge modes?
This question is not about World of Warcraft's upcoming PvP mode switch. Don't get me wrong, that's a cool option; you either explore the...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMO mobs you feel bad about killing?
Call me a softy, but I always cringe when I am sent in to slaughter the small, the fluffy, and the cute in MMOs....
The Daily Grind: We’re headed to PAX East – what do you most want to see?
Yes, it's that time again, time to drive up to Boston and take part in the annual collection of games and poorly laid-out convention...
The Daily Grind: What alternate MMO server rulesets would get you excited?
Seeing as how MMORPG legacy and progression servers have served well to rally the playerbase and general enthusiasm as of late, my mind has...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best ‘spiral’ gameplay?
Last week, in his Ready Player One piece from GDC, MOP's Andrew paraphrased something from Darewise's Randy Smith that stuck out to me.
"hemepark development...
The Daily Grind: What should every MMO make account-wide?
The nice thing about World of Warcraft's Loremaster achievements is that pretty much all of them are account-wide, thus ensuring that my efforts to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best April Fools’ Day prank this year? (2018)
April Fools' Day this year has been pretty weird, given that MMO studios started rolling out their pranks and events in the middle of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO NPC do you love to mock?
Hell hath no sarcasm like MMO gamers who find a particular NPC to be a little too annoying, repetitive, or otherwise goofy. Then the...
The Daily Grind: How do you deal with your anger in MMORPGs?
Earlier this month, Overwatch made headlines when a player posted up a behavioral therapy chart his wife - who happens to be a therapist...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO does the best job of honoring fallen players?
Online games are shared spaces, and for some players they're particularly important spaces. That means honoring and remembering those who pass in the game...
The Daily Grind: Are blacklists, quizzes, and threats effective at reducing text toxicity in MMOs?
Toxicity in online gaming just keeps popping up - specifically as it pertains to chat and commenting.
MOP reader Tanek pointed us to a thread about...
The Daily Grind: What components make up an attractive MMO expansion?
When Star Trek Online announced its Deep Space Nine-themed Victory is Life expansion last week, Eliot and I were briefly talking about its potential...
