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The Daily Grind: What type of fashion does your MMO characters wear?
As the truth-in-comedy joke goes, the real endgame for MMORPGs is fashion wars. Whichever player creates the best cosmetic outfit from collected pieces and...
The Daily Grind: Do you like zerg vs. zerg PvP in MMOs?
Early on in 2023, Sandbox Interactive sent Albion Online players a detailed survey asking about their game preferences, and included within was a question...
The Daily Grind: How do you offer your feedback to MMO designers?
It is possible, albeit unlikely, that you think my job consists of sitting at my desk in an office, writing for an hour, and...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are hard to love because of their combat design?
The other day I was spying on Chris playing some Warframe on Twitch, and the thought that kept bubbling into my head as he was...
The Daily Grind: Do you join serious or goofy guilds in MMOs?
A while back in Lord of the Rings Online, I saw an ad for a guild float by that made me giggle when usually...
The Daily Grind: Do you care about other people’s achievements in MMOs?
A few weeks ago, I saw an MOP commenter remark that MMOs had the advantage over single-player games because single-player games are too boring,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio has the most credibility?
Some MMO studios love to treat credibility in much the same way that you treat a tissue during a head cold, there to be...
The Daily Grind: How much homework do you do coming into a new MMO?
Recently, I've re-entered the world of Guild Wars 2 after a quite lengthy absence. But I've done it in a different way than before,...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite biome type in MMOs?
A while back, Pantheon posted some slides for some of its in-production biome types that caught my attention. Obviously, the mockups are slick, and...
The Daily Grind: Has an MMO ad ever worked on you?
I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that Final Fantasy XIV has done a fair number of live-action ads that are all...
The Daily Grind: How long is your average MMO gameplay session?
Mine's one hour, in case you were curious about my situation. On average, I play an MMO for about an hour at a stretch....
The Daily Grind: Do you shun early access MMOs and multiplayer games?
The MOP community tends to be pretty strict about crowdfunding; the majority of you tell us how much you hate Kickstarter all the time....
The Daily Grind: How should player thievery work in a modern MMO?
We just ran a Daily Grind a few days ago in which I used the word "snooping" to refer to checking out characters' attire,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most satisfying classes?
Not every MMO has classes. Sometimes that's more a function of strict definition than anything; sure, your character can technically do anything, but as...
The Daily Grind: What are the pros and cons of console vs. PC MMO gaming?
I can't say that I'm a huge cross-platform player; other than spurts of mobile titles, all of my gaming takes place on the PC....
The Daily Grind: Are you the fashion police in your MMO of choice?
Since the dawn of the genre, MMOs have allowed players to "snoop" each other and check out what their fellow players were wearing and...
The Daily Grind: What MMO playstyle is completely foreign to you?
There are very few MMO playstyles I have not experienced over time, from raiding to shouting for parties to roleplaying to just logging on...
The Daily Grind: What’s the coziest MMO world out there?
While I've long known that I am very receptive to uplifting environments, it's only been in the last year or so that I've dived...
The Daily Grind: Do you leave MMOs when your friends do?
MOP's Carlo was chatting about the modern endgame situation in World of Warcraft the other day and I had a sharp realization that I...
The Daily Grind: Why (and how) do you use your MMO house?
This is a serious question. I am well aware that lots of MMOs provide lots of reasons and methods to own housing, and I...
