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The Daily Grind: Do you have to reach the top of an MMO to really understand the game?
We all play MMOs in different ways, and I personally tend to play to reach the top. It's no shock if I tell you...
The Daily Grind: What makes you excited to log into your MMO?
I love it when my interest in an MMO hits those occasional spikes where I'm logging in not just because it's what I do...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPG lockbox mechanics be regulated as gambling?
A reader named Paul recently wrote to us wondering why RNG lockboxes aren't considered gambling. Oh sure, we call them gambleboxes, but the government...
The Daily Grind: How long does an MMO have before it’s considered a success or failure?
Watching the latest news about Pokémon Go brought to mind something I still like to say about the MMO industry: It's a marathon, not...
The Daily Grind: What obstacles keep you from trying different MMOs?
While it is probably no big surprise, I've come to realize that even as I love MMOs and want to play them all, I...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG whose charms you’ve managed to escape?
Traditionally, Blizzard has but to crook a finger and my whole guild, including me, will flock back to play World of Warcraft's new thing. But this...
The Daily Grind: How complex should playing an MMORPG character be?
I am downright out of room in Final Fantasy XIV. My characters have two sets of action bars packed to the gills along with...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best inventory system?
Video game packrats, obsessive compulsives, and that one guildie of mine whose MMO inventory literally has everything he's ever looted: Today's Daily Grind is...
The Daily Grind: How do you define good play in an MMO?
One of the buzzwords of the modern MMO space is games promising to reward player skill rather than gear. I understand the argument being...
The Daily Grind: How would you like choice and consequence to play out in MMOs?
One of the reasons that I grieve the premature loss of Ultima X Odyssey was that the devs had some truly intriguing ideas of...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs have special areas for paying players?
I was poking around in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop this weekend when I realized that ArenaNet is selling teleports to Noble's Folly....
The Daily Grind: How do you decide when MMORPG class revisions have gone too far?
A bunch of my guildies flocked back to World of Warcraft during its pre-Legion festivities. One of them mentioned in passing that he'd been...
The Daily Grind: Has a trailer ever convinced you to give an MMO a shot?
Companies pay a lot of money to make good trailers. We all know this. The latest World of Warcraft intro cinematic didn't cost $3.50...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most memorable MMO fight scene?
We've all been in so many fights in MMOs that they mostly blend together in a memory stew of numbers, phases, buffs, debuffs, animations,...
The Daily Grind: Do you like to have physical MMO boxes?
I have a physical box for every single World of Warcraft expansion, but I might not for Legion. When faced with the choice between...
The Daily Grind: Who’s the most relatable NPC in an MMORPG?
Multiple commenters in Tina's recent Guild Wars 2 column homed in on the character Taimi as being the glue that holds the game's latest...
The Daily Grind: Which older MMO still looks really pretty?
I've been spending more time in RIFT lately due to the expansion announcement, and an observation that's crossed my mind more than once is...
The Daily Grind: What was the biggest F2P ‘save’ in MMORPG history?
Jess Conditt had a piece on Engadget last week that caught my eye because it's a story you don't hear much anymore: Free-to-play saved...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see more true mysteries in MMORPGs?
Last week, we wrote about Kharsek, the Tibia player who was pushing level 999... and almost able to enter a special door marked for...
The Daily Grind: Do you care about MMO lore?
Lore is a big deal to me when I'm playing an MMO. For all the issues I have with Guild Wars 2, it genuinely...
