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The Daily Grind: Should MMO PvP matchmaking focus on challenge or engagement?
MOP's Sam recently stumbled across an MSM article that quotes multiple streamers and esports players essentially complaining about matchmaking systems in competitive games. The...
The Daily Grind: What do you consider your biggest MMO mistake?
Everyone screws up in MMOs. I don't mean that in the sense of staring at your shelf wondering why in the world you have...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about studios paying streamers to cover MMOs?
The other night, I was listening to a YouTuber go through a list of ideas to improve Lord of the Rings Online. I agreed...
The Daily Grind: Do you expect MMO studios to moderate in-game chat?
Last week, a reader emailed us in frustration over in-game harassment going on in Elder Scrolls Online during Pride month. The reader's guild is...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO requires the least math from players?
I have tried to explain to my kids that they will not stop using math in real life, even if they aren't in a...
The Daily Grind: How many people are you close to in your MMO of choice?
For all that people sometimes tell me that MMOs are so much less social than they used to be, my experience honestly isn't all...
The Daily Grind: Should more MMOs include a ‘comeback’ system from defeat?
We've seen this in so many action movies and television shows: Our hero is on the razor's edge of defeat, only to employ a...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs make more effort to corral likeminded gamers?
I've mentioned before that my husband has been playing a lot of Destiny 2 lately (fillin' the ol' Overwatch void), and it's led to...
The Daily Grind: What intentionally sub-optimal choices do you make in your MMO?
Some people very deliberately do not look up what the ideal ways are to play their character types in MMOs. They never read guides...
The Daily Grind: Are you more into WoW Classic, WoW retail, or WoW none-of-the-above?
With WoW Classic taking players into the Sunwell Plateau last month and WoW retail pushing into the final patch of Shadowlands' run, there's a...
The Daily Grind: What counts as ‘gear’ in MMORPGs?
As we noted in yesterday's piece on Diablo Immortal, there's been a lot of anger over a Blizzard bluename comment that prior to launch...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from MMO guilds?
This morning's question works whether or not you've ever been in or led an MMORPG guild yourself, I think, as you can certainly see...
The Daily Grind: Do you like repeated event content in MMOs?
When World of Warcraft's holidays come around each year, they are largely the same as the event that you experienced last year, which was...
The Daily Grind: What are some of the silliest mistakes you made while starting MMOs?
Starting out brand-new in an MMORPG, especially one not long on the market, is a thrilling and heady journey of discovery. However, such journey...
The Daily Grind: What level of pay-to-win are you willing to tolerate in MMORPGs?
Friend-of-MOP Clowd over at RIFT blog The Ghar Station penned a provocative piece this week proposing for the MMORPG genre a five-tiered system for...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘solo’ in MMORPGs?
When I played Guild Wars, I mostly did it solo. I'd go to towns, load up on my henchmen, and then go out and...
The Daily Grind: How do you get over feeling like it’s too late to start an MMO?
Maybe I get inside my own head too much, but I always experience inner turmoil when I start or come back to an MMO...
The Daily Grind: How much does an MMO’s population influence your perception of its success?
A few weeks back, there was a flurry of panic on Reddit over the realization that Final Fantasy XIV's Steam counts had fallen 70%...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most unique hybrid class in an MMO?
Back in the long long ago, the idea of "hybrid" classes and skills sets was a big deal. Classic EverQuest, for example, borrowed from...
The Daily Grind: What system in your main MMO have you just never been interested in exploring?
Look, I'm sorry, I know there's a lot of interesting stuff going on with gardening in Final Fantasy XIV. I know that this system...
