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The Daily Grind: What’s an MMO setting you consider yourself very invested in?
I've mentioned before in various contexts that I don't really have a strong emotional attachment to Middle-earth, but I can't really fault the people...
The Daily Grind: How often do you clean up your MMO character roster?
There's only so long that I can live with clutter -- either in real life or in my video games. It's not even inventory...
The Daily Grind: Do you use MMORPGs as ‘third places’?
Somebody tweeted an interesting video into my Twitter feed the other day about third places. No, not third place as in a competition, but...
The Daily Grind: Who’s your favorite leader in an MMO world?
Everyone likes a dashing leader in the MMO space, but a lot of times those leaders aren't very good at, well, leading. Bree and...
The Stream Team: Wandering Wistmead and other Halloween fun in Lord of the Rings Online
It just isn't the Halloween season for Massively OP's MJ until her Hobbit takes a jaunt through the Haunted Burrow in LOTRO. Along with...
The Daily Grind: What was the reason you quit your last MMO?
The other day I was thinking about returning to Final Fantasy XIV -- I seem to do this on an annual basis, for some...
The Daily Grind: What are the least compelling housing systems in MMOs, and what’s their problem?
I am a huge fan of housing in MMOs, but I've long since learned that just having housing is not nearly enough to attract...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle weekly capped content in MMOs?
Over the years, I have noticed that there are three basic approaches to a situation wherein there is a weekly cap for certain content...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever bump into MMO players in the real world?
I don't know about you, but when I move about town -- in stores, through sewers, hopping from rooftop to rooftop like the dark...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer realistic MMO mounts or pocket mounts?
On the MOP podcast back in September, we answered a question from listener Sergio about neat MMO features with a long-running history in the...
The Daily Grind: What’s more likely to drive you out of an MMO – the gameplay or the fans?
Today's Daily Grind was inspired entirely by this tweet about just traveling along enjoying the heck out of something without interacting with the "fans."...
The Daily Grind: What motivates you to complete challenging content in MMOs?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to do challenging content in any given MMO; that's just not what everyone is there for. But...
The Daily Grind: How do you set up your MMO chat window?
While we often use it to talk, we almost never talk about chat windows in MMORPGs. Those unassuming boxes are the workhorses of our...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite way to interact with your MMO’s economy?
I know there are some folks playing MMOs who hate MMO economies, who don't want crafting to even exist, who don't want any kind...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you didn’t expect to like that won you over?
Up until very shortly before the launch, I was not planning on buying Final Fantasy XI. I had heard enough horror stories at that...
The Daily Grind: What are you doing with MMO Halloween and harvest events this year?
In case you recently returned from a long, time-dilated space voyage and are a little out of it, we're currently in the midst of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best dailies?
Listen, I know that right now, the title of this post has provoked a lot of people to ignore the text I'm typing right...
The Daily Grind: Are you hoping for ‘market disruption’ in the MMO genre?
Over the summer, a Twitter user replied to one of our Daily Grinds suggesting that a certain MMORPG was poised to "disrupt the MMO...
The Daily Grind: How do you pick your playstyle in a new MMO?
Every MMO plays a little bit differently. We all know that, just like we all know that goes beyond something as simple as "in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best online card game you’ve ever played?
I've always held fleeting love affairs with digital card games. I played a whole lot of Magic Online back in the day, not to...
