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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO beast race?
When you venture off of the safe and predictable road of MMO races, where humans and Elves and blue-skinned humans and slightly smaller humans...
The Daily Grind: What do you want from an expansion reveal event for an MMORPG?
Here's the honest truth: As I become older and more tired, I am increasingly worn out by big gigantic events announcing a new expansion...
The Daily Grind: Have class nerfs ever driven you to quit an MMO?
It's part of the cycle of MMO patches: The thing you like is probably going to get nerfed, but wait a few months and...
The Daily Grind: Do you use your MMO Halloween costumes and decor after October?
One thing about Halloween in MMORPGs -- you can easily fill up your virtual pillowcase with a pile of costumes, consumables, housing decoration, and...
The Daily Grind: How much preparation are you willing to do for MMO combat?
It was Lord of the Rings Online's traps that made me ponder this question. I remember playing LOTRO years ago when traps were part...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the best vehicle experience?
I am generally not a fan of vehicles in MMORPGs. No, let me rephrase that. What I don't like is when my character becomes...
The Daily Grind: What was the last major victory you had in an MMO?
The reality is that we all know MMO victories are not the same as real-world victories. It's just not possible; these are video games...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle your indecisiveness in MMOs?
There's that tired old chestnut of a maxim that often rings in my head, which is, "The grass is always greener on the other...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs could really use a PvP or PvE spectator mode?
Earlier this summer, MOP reader Stormsong Minstrel accidentally reminded me of a mechanic from classic Guild Wars that I shouldn't miss but do anyway....
The Daily Grind: How scared are you of death in MMOs?
In the vast majority of MMOs, death does not actually carry too strict a penalty. We all know that. Your character dies, you lose...
The Daily Grind: What dead MMO cred do you have?
As truly sad as it is to have a beloved MMORPG shut down on you, there's some measure of consolation that you actually got...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would actually be better if it killed its whole endgame?
Let's have some provocative fun this morning. Let's imagine that your favorite MMORPG suddenly decided to kill its entire endgame. The devs are shaving...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG should we play to get rip-roaring drunk?
Just about every MMORPG inserts taverns, bars, and cantinas for immersion and realism in the setting, and you'll find alcohol drinks in most online...
The Daily Grind: How often do you change builds for your characters in MMOs?
I know people in Final Fantasy XIV who always, always wind up changing their main job to one of the new jobs from the...
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...
