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The Daily Grind: What MMO had the best player community in 2017?
It's common wisdom among MMORPG players that player communities thrive in smaller games with lots of history, developer input, and social interaction. Games like...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best older MMO for players to try out?
It's funny to think that World of Warcraft is over a decade old, because it doesn't feel like an older MMO, due in no...
The Daily Grind: Are you surprised by your MMO /played time?
26 days, 18 hours, and 34 minutes.
That's the current /played time for my World of Warcraft Hunter, which is one of my more enduring...
The Daily Grind: What quality-of-life features matter most to you in an MMORPG?
There are a lot of missing features that I can deal with in Final Fantasy XI because the game was designed for a controller...
The Daily Grind: What should SWTOR do to pull out of its funk?
Is it just me, or does Star Wars: The Old Republic seem to be in a serious funk this year? I mean, the game...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite way to make money in an MMORPG?
Writing about Star Wars Galaxies' emulator last week awoke in me a dormant desire to get back in there and make some pretend money....
The Daily Grind: What’s your latest MMO achievement?
Achievements in MMOs are a nice way of marking off things that you've done, but there are no achievements for personal goals. You do...
The Daily Grind: Are you willing to buy good-looking MMO cosmetics?
There are few things that bug me more in MMOs than when my character looks like he or she got dressed by sprinting through...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest break you’ve taken from an MMO?
When World of Warcraft: Cataclysm launched, I was playing. It wasn't too much longer after that when I was not. And I never really...
The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?
One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO needs a better music system – or any music system?
If you ask any Star Wars Galaxies veteran about the game's most amazing features, I guarantee that the music and dance system will make...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs have enforced naming standards?
For some players, "enter a name for your character" might as well read "insert the best joke you can within the character limit." As...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs with PvP-focused factions allow cross-faction interaction?
I'm on-board for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth focusing on the factional conflict, but there's a side of the factions in WoW that...
The Daily Grind: What should MMOs do to facilitate your return?
Over the past weekend, I picked up Hearthstone after a year or two away from the game. I certainly didn't remember where I left...
The Daily Grind: Did EA do gamers a big favor with its monetization overreach?
Over the last couple of weeks as players fought EA and Disney turned on its own in the Star Wars Battlefront II mess, I've...
The Daily Grind: Did you take advantage of any Black Friday sales in MMOs this weekend?
I did a ton of shopping - all online, mind you, as I'm not so far gone as to actually put on pants or...
The Daily Grind: Is an MMO’s shutdown announcement better or worse than shutdown suspicions?
This is a post about Marvel Heroes. It's also a post about Firefall. In fact, it's a post about all of the games where...
The Daily Grind: What did you misunderstand the first time through your MMO?
I have long resigned myself to the fact that no matter how much time I take in my first playthrough of an MMO, I'm...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time an MMO made you rethink your hobby?
This past week, my husband has been obsessed with Succubox. It's a satirical clicker game where you start out by click-fighting monsters and buying...
The Daily Grind: Are you celebrating World of Warcraft’s anniversary?
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, but unlike many such years, it's not "just another Thursday" to everyone else. No, this marks the...
