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The Daily Grind: What are you hoping to hear from this year’s BlizzCon?
Perhaps I think or say this every year, but I truly feel that 2023's BlizzCon is setting up for a make-or-break moment for Blizzard....
The Daily Grind: Are you inured to MMO whaling and exploitative monetization?
Back in July, MOP reader Neowolf made an insightful comment about excessive monetization exploitation and MMO whaling - that is, MMOs targeting big-spenders with...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever try out MMOs that aren’t MMORPGs?
It's not an exaggeration to say that most of our staff and the majority of our readers are here because they care about MMORPGs...
The Daily Grind: Do you worry about getting too old for MMORPGs to release?
As I start to give the oncoming approach of the age of 50 a long, hard stare, I've had a new, weird concern arise:...
The Daily Grind: Does playing MMOs ever feel like a job?
MOP reader HotPinkGoblin recently remarked that the march of time had changed their attitude about playing MMOs - in what I would consider a...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on New World’s ‘unbound’ character issue?
When New World's Rise of the Angry Earth launched earlier this month, I was kind of baffled to realize that many returning players (including...
The Daily Grind: How do you manage your alts in MMOs where you have several?
When Bjork sang "Army of Me," she was not talking about having large arsenal of MMO characters. This was for several reasons, not the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Funcom MMORPG?
My nostalgia and I had a Moment the other day when I saw that Funcom was celebrating its 30th anniversary. Even though I freely...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best horror content?
A Friday the 13th doesn't come around in October very often, but it sure is a fun day to talk horror in MMOs. No,...
The Daily Grind: What MMO mechanic are you genuinely a hypocrite about?
No one really wants a fair fight. We all kind of want things to be unfair in our favor. That's just human nature. We...
The Daily Grind: Should global chat be restricted to discussion of just that MMO?
The megaphone that is the world chat or global chat channel is a huge responsibility that few people seem to respect. Any player can...
The Daily Grind: Do you make or borrow your MMO class builds?
Let's talk about MMO character builds! This question works for almost every MMORPG, whether it has classes or skills or traits or anything in...
The Daily Grind: Would you play EverQuest Next or Landmark if Daybreak revived them?
I know the big buzz for the EverQuest franchise is the potential for EverQuest 3, given that EG7 has been pitching it to investors....
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest time you’ve endured an MMO you dislike?
Disliking an MMO is not inherently a commentary on the MMO itself. It's possible for a game to be very good at what it's...
The Daily Grind: Are you rocking an aging MMO gaming PC?
In looking back through my records the other day, I was shocked to realize that my main home and gaming PC was purchased back...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually decorate your MMORPG houses?
I say the MMO playerbase can be divided into two groups: those who decorate their MMO houses and those who don't. It's sort of...
The Daily Grind: Who or what is the least-effective Big Bad from an MMO expansion?
Over the various expansions World of Warcraft has had, there have been a number of different Big Threats in each expansion. Some of them...
The Daily Grind: Do MMOs send you into choice paralysis?
Does it ever feel that despite having more entertainment options than we've ever had in the past, it's incredibly hard to choose what to...
The Daily Grind: How do you want to be remembered in MMOs when you’re gone?
Last weekend, it became public knowledge that a prominent - probably the most prominent - player on my Lord of the Rings Online server...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of shapeshifter classes in MMOs?
Albion Online's upcoming Wild Blood update includes a new weapon with a unique attribute: It allows players to shapeshift into specific critters. Also golems....
