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The Daily Grind: How do you avoid MMO burnout?
If you've been playing video games long enough, you've probably bumped up against burnout at some point. But for MMO players who are invested...
The Daily Grind: Two months in, have you tried the resurrected City of Heroes?
So I spent a bunch of time over last weekend playing City of Heroes again. The game died seven years ago, but like any...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs inherently ageist?
I don't like throwing "isms" around that often in conversation (it's a different story with "sims"), but a recent office discussion over Black Desert's...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see WoW’s factions dissolved?
World of Warcraft's latest cinematic has a lot of WoW fans in a frenzy right now because it's dropping some big hints about a...
The Daily Grind: What was the last MMO beta you sought out?
You might think that our work here at Massively Overpowered means that your friendly neighborhood MMO journalists get into any beta we want without...
The Daily Grind: What should Funcom do with Secret World?
Whenever I think about Funcom and Secret World, my blood pressure goes up. Here we have not just one of the most unique MMOs...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most satisfying ‘massively’ content?
A while back, I saw a great thread on the MMORPG subreddit about "massive team PvP." The writer was looking specifically for games with...
The Daily Grind: Which problems is the MMO industry never gonna solve?
Earlier in June, Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob posted a provocative article about the three problems MMORPGs are never going to solve. Fighting...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest thing pushing you away from MMO progression content?
Drama between raid groups. Drama within a raid group. Time commitment. Maybe even mechanical difficulty. There are a lot of things that can push someone...
The Daily Grind: What are the most nostalgic MMO music tracks for you?
As one of the hosts of Battle Bards and the writer of this site's Jukebox Heroes column, I obviously hold great affection for MMORPG...
The Daily Grind: Do you care whether MMORPGs have seasons and diurnal cycles?
In a recent One Shots, MOP's Justin asked readers to offer up their screenshots of MMOs with diurnal cycles - that is, games with...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an older MMO with completely new graphics?
Gosh, City of Heroes is still a wonderful game... but boy, it really does show its age when I look at it now. The downside...
The Daily Grind: What are you going to roll in WoW Classic?
I swear that we are all of us caught in a time loop right now. It's not 2019, it's really just 2004, when City...
The Daily Grind: What does Destiny 2 still need before you’ll call it an MMO?
With Destiny 2 back in the news thanks to its free-to-play relaunch, Stadia platforming, and new expansion, online gamers have once again returned to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best systems for helping newbies?
A while back I saw a deeply underrated post on the MMORPG subreddit about mentoring systems. I don't mean the kind of systems like...
The Daily Grind: Do you check out sunsetting MMOs on their last days of operation?
I've never played Worlds Adrift, and in the near future I will never be able to do so. Despite this fact, I'm in no particular...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO enemy faction and why?
One of the more bits of brilliant design in City of Heroes is that there is such a diverse and distinct array of enemy...
The Daily Grind: What was the best MMO-ish reveal or announcement of E3?
Another E3 has rolled in and rolled out, and it wasn't the worst E3 we've seen in recent years at all. In fact, insofar...
The Daily Grind: Which optional subscription MMO justifies its subscription the best?
We talk a lot about how free-to-play (and its slightly more expensive cousin buy-to-play took over the MMO market, but a lot of these...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a technique for coming up with MMO character names?
My husband doesn't really take MMO names too seriously. The pigtailed City of Heroes toon floating in the image up above? Yeah, her name...
