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The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs provide vibration and haptic feedback to make combat more visceral?
When it comes to making combat in video games feel real and visceral, there are only so many tricks in a developer's bag. The...
The Daily Grind: How long are you willing to wait for an MMO’s release?
A couple of months ago, The Ancient Gaming Noob ran a piece about Valheim - specifically, about how freakin' long we've all been waiting...
The Daily Grind: What’s the saddest guild breakup you’ve experienced in an MMO?
Guilds dissolve. It's almost inevitable. You get a group of people together and fun times happen, but eventually pressures both inside and out build...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever played (or roleplayed) an older character in an MMO?
As the long-running joke goes, all RPG characters are instantly born into the world at the age of 20 in the prime of their...
The Daily Grind: Are you playing a ‘morally disengaged murder hobo’ in MMOs?
The Psychology of Video Games podcast recently did a bit on "murder hobos," and yes, Dr Jamie Madigan does point out that the term...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most annoying sound in an MMO?
OK, I realize I am very late to this party, but I just figured out a few weeks ago that Lord of the Rings...
The Daily Grind: What are your main areas of focus when you play an MMORPG?
It's probably not a surprise to anyone reading this that I really like stories in MMOs. They're important to me. And if you've read...
The Daily Grind: What are some of your favorite go-to emotes in MMORPGs?
I love to faint. Not in real life, as that would freak me out a bit, but in Lord of the Rings Online. It's...
The Daily Grind: Are you sick of crypto and NFT crap in MMOs?
Yesterday, our genre's core subreddit floated a poll to subbers about whether or not crypto and NFT game threads should be characterized as scammy...
The Daily Grind: How much do you trust player-based analyses of MMO playerbases?
There was a time when World of Warcraft would reliably tell press and players just how many people were playing the game at any...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMO bestial races you wish you could play?
Yes, Embers Adrift, I would totally play as a war gecko if I had half the chance. Forget your weird emo obsession with darkness;...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite healing style in an MMO?
If I could only pick one healing style forever in an MMO, it's anything that hooks me up with a Grid-like healing tool. That...
The Daily Grind: Why did you leave the last MMO guild you left?
Earlier this spring, Justin penned a Global Chat quoting a blogger who discussed the dissolution of an MMO guild. I don't think the working...
The Daily Grind: What’s your ideal ‘throwback’ MMO?
So I was recently doing a piece about Ethyrial and noting its promise of being a throwback to the golden days of MMOs, deliberately evoking...
The Daily Grind: What MMO pets are you rocking these days?
Recently in Lord of the Rings Online, the game's 15th anniversary added lil' corgis to the game world for the first time as vanity...
The Daily Grind: Do you still try to make new friends in MMOs?
Today's Daily Grind was inspired by a Reddit thread from a user who said he was experiencing a bout of loneliness in MMOs, essentially...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you want a mobile spinoff from?
I feel like Warcraft Arclight Rumble was at once exactly what I expected from the promise of a mobile Warcraft title and yet simultaneously disappointing. Like,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best way for MMO studios to handle reveals?
One of the follow-up discussions after the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight reveal the other day didn't concern the content of the talk so much...
The Daily Grind: How long do you trial a new MMO class before deciding whether it’s for you?
I've been playing City of Alts... er, City of Heroes lately, and it's inspired today's Daily Grind. See, I like to maintain a list...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best elves?
OK, nobody tell MOP's Justin, but I don't entirely share his hatred of elven races in MMOs. I'm not entirely sure why. I didn't...
