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The Daily Grind: How much do ‘day one’ sales numbers matter to MMORPGs?
GamesIndustry.biz has an intriguing piece out this week on the industry's obsession with "day one" and "week one" -- that period AAA game studios...
MMO Week in Review: Black Desert’s big merge (November 13, 2016)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
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The Daily Grind: What MMO do you see yourself playing in half a year?
The future is an undiscovered country. We can make guesses and predictions, but we never know just how things are going to shake out....
The Daily Grind: Are companions useful storytelling aids in MMOs?
As of late, I have been adventuring through RIFT's Planetouched Wilds zone and having an absolute ball with my journeys. Part of the reason...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG PUG you’ve ever been in?
I'm not known as a big fan of classic EverQuest, in spite of my having played it for many years. But the truth is...
The Daily Grind: What MMO would make a killer board game?
On a master list of things I never expected to see, Riot Games making a board game even loosely based upon League of Legends...
The Daily Grind: When is an MMO not worth playing?
One common question that I see pop up across various MMORPG subreddits is a variation on, "Is this game still worth playing? Should I...
The Daily Grind: Are real screenshots critical to your MMO purchases?
Last week, Steam told developers that it will be cracking down on "bullshots" -- images that don't actually depict the game they're supposed to...
The Daily Grind: Can WoW really keep up a rapid content cadence?
At this weekend's BlizzCon, Blizzard reps reiterated to fans and journalists alike that while the company is already working on the next World of...
The Daily Grind: What was your favorite part of BlizzCon?
BlizzCon 2016 was really hit-and-miss from my perspective. On the one hand, there was some really great stuff in there, like the discussion of...
The Daily Grind: What type of armor do you like to wear in MMOs?
In real life, I'm having a good day when my socks match and I don't make people visibly wince when I appear in public...
The Daily Grind: What’s your one wish/prediction for BlizzCon 2016?
BlizzCon 2016 kicks off today;Â in fact, our first liveblog covering the opening ceremonies begins this afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT. And we've already pretty...
The Daily Grind: Does bigger content in an MMO feel more epic to you?
The tradition of making big plot stuff happen in big groups is not unique to World of Warcraft, but it was one of the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best fishing system?
OK, I'll freely admit that I am not one for fishing in MMORPGs. I know that many games have it and that there's a...
The Daily Grind: Are you a ‘leaver’ in MMORPGs?
If there's one you never wanted to be labeled in classic Guild Wars, it was "leaver" -- the kind of person who'd leave a group...
The Daily Grind: Are conventions worth it for MMOs without big announcements?
This year marked both another fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV and another BlizzCon for World of Warcraft (among other games). BlizzCon, however, looks...
The Daily Grind: What kind of humor do you prefer in MMORPGs?
Humor has to be one of the most subjective elements (and a sadly neglected Captain Planet powerset). Most of us like humor, like to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO doesn’t have mounts — and needs them?
Let's talk mounts and MMOs.
When Star Wars Galaxies launched, it did not have vehicles. It had neither speederbikes nor or ridable tauntauns. For almost six...
The Daily Grind: When should holiday events in MMOs be ‘finished’?
The holiday events in Final Fantasy XI are done. They still run, of course; around the same time every year, bang! Holiday event arrives...
The Daily Grind: If you had to start over in MMOs, what would you do?
Let us imagine that today, an extremely clumsy MMO employee stumbled into the server room with an armful of magnets, tripped, and somehow erased...
