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The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you bought and barely played?
There was a time when any new MMO was only open to you if you bought it, and that made for an interesting situation....
The Daily Grind: What MMO is theoretically perfect but fails to click with you?
Let's talk about Final Fantasy XIV for a minute. This game really frustrates me because, on paper, it has so much of what I'm...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG skill system that avoids the ‘illusion of choice’?
Over the weekend, my husband and I were chatting about playing on a Star Wars Galaxies emulator again, probably the Legends one that people...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best user interface?
In the comments of my last Daily Grind about Star Wars Galaxies, there erupted a lively debate about the game's user interface in the...
The Daily Grind: Are MMO collector’s editions worth it?
The allure of the collector's edition has always been a strange one. I remember when it started, of course, when you could get the...
The Daily Grind: Which in-development MMOs are you hoping to hear more about?
One of the downsides of only following the gaming news cycle is that if there isn't news, you're not really paying attention to a...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Star Wars Galaxies if it relaunched today?
Star Wars Galaxies is 15 years old now, and it was just about seven years ago that SOE announced it was slated for execution....
The Daily Grind: Should every MMO with factions have mechanics to switch factions?
Lots of things bug the living heck out of me about World of Warcraft, but one of the bullet points on that list is...
The Daily Grind: What are your ‘must have’ features for an MMO space sim?
With Star Citizen on the way (eventually) and smaller efforts like Prosperous Universe, Starfighter Inc, and Dual Universe in the works and titles like...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see a battle royale mode in any live MMORPGs?
Literally nothing is sacred, and no video game franchise seems capable of escaping the pull of the battle royale, as my trip to a...
The Daily Grind: Are you an impulse buyer in MMO cash shops?
During last week's podcast, Justin and I were discussing MMOs that seem to make it hard for us to give them money, which led...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO social hangout?
There was always something happening in Pocket D in City of Heroes. You can expect to see people talking it up in Deep Space...
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...
