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The Daily Grind: Do you stop collecting mounts when you find your ‘the one and only?’
Mounts are a powerful reward in most MMOs, offering not only a faster way to get to your destination but also a fashion statement...
The Daily Grind: Would you rather an MMO be over or underpopulated?
I was hanging out in Lord of the Rings Online this past weekend and saw an interesting conversation: While some folks are lamenting the...
The Daily Grind: How much research do you do for your MMO builds?
Within the larger MMO community, there are three basic stances regarding guidance for builds online. The first group believes that ever acknowledging that Thing...
The Daily Grind: Are you allergic to certain art styles in MMOs?
Art and aesthetics are some of the most subjective areas of an MMO, and it's never assured that what appeals to one person will...
The Daily Grind: Do you appreciate brutal honesty from MMORPG devs?
A few weeks back, the few remaining Might and Delight developers admitted in print that Kickstarted MMO Book of Travels is basically in maintenance...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best way to handle MMO economy errors?
Back in February, Amazon raised all the eyebrows when it clawed back a range of drops from innocent Lost Ark players. According to the...
The Daily Grind: Which of your favorite MMO’s patches had the least aesthetic appeal?
So it is not exactly a secret that I like Warframe a lot, and thus you are probably aware that I am entirely on-board...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO spring festival fanatic?
As I type this, the weather abruptly shifted from shivery winter to the warmth of spring in the span of a week, with flowers...
The Daily Grind: How many players does an MMO need to be considered healthy?
A while back on Reddit, I saw a comment - I think it was about Throne & Liberty - that pushed back hard against...
The Daily Grind: How closely do you track your spending on free-to-play MMOs?
When it comes to free-to-play games, you might find yourself inadvertently spending way more than a subscription price every month. Not necessarily, of course....
The Daily Grind: What was the ‘silver age’ of your MMORPG?
We're all familiar with the term "golden age" -- the absolute height of a particular genre or property when it sat on the top...
The Daily Grind: If you lost your main MMO characters, would you still play?
As the Lord of the Rings Online transfers were going on over the last few weeks, I had a couple of brief moments when...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to play while under the influence?
So if you guys know me, you probably know that I'm not really a drinker or drug enjoyer. I've always felt as if I've...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the worst official screenshot game?
The other day MOP's Bree was looking at the official batch of screenshots from an MMORPG and asking why they are so uniformly terrible,...
The Daily Grind: Is the MOBA genre in a period of stagnation?
With SMITE 2 trying to muscle (back) into the MOBA space, it made me really think about that genre's state in 2025. Once the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG deserves its own TV series?
Way back in January, Square-Enix's Yoshinori Kitase teased that he would "would love to see something come out of creators in terms of...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most painful cosmetic choice you’ve made in an MMORPG?
So there I was in Final Fantasy XI wearing sub-par gear because it looked better. This was in 2004, meaning it was well before...
The Daily Grind: Do you engage in world chat in MMOs?
World chat (or global chat) is laden with a reputation it can't shake. Awful, uncomfortable discussions? Trollish behavior? Dank memes and antique running jokes...
The Daily Grind: Are virtual reality MMOs ever coming back?
Back in February, we covered the unfortunate news that OrbusVR, one of the very first serious MMORPGs in the VR space, was throwing in...
The Daily Grind: Are you still a fan of tab-target MMOs in 2025?
Throne and Liberty is unusual in the MMO space because NCsoft baked in two very different methods for playing the game: an action-oriented system...
