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The Daily Grind: Why did Red Dead Online fail?
Last week, Rockstar delivered the distressing news that it's essentially putting Red Dead Online, the MMO version of Red Dead Redemption 2, into maintenance...
The Daily Grind: Do you pay attention to how MMO studios treat their devs?
Every time a game studio is outed for bad behavior when it comes to its workers - or good behavior, for that matter -...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever ragequit an MMO?
We've all heard the stories, at the very least. Someone died in a particularly inconvenient way, or someone lost a valuable items, or a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO zone offers the best summertime vibes?
Now that we're in July and the ball of sky-fire is on the warpath, it's hard to deny that we've finally arrived in summer...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is too ambitious for its own good?
This week's Final Fantasy XIV update had our newsroom shaking our heads, not because of any animosity for the game but because the situation...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever expected an MMO to be your home… and then it wasn’t?
I was so excited when Star Wars: The Old Republic was coming out. I had plans for my characters of all eight classes. I...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMO starting zones you always avoid?
While some MMOs only offer you a single standard beginning zone from which to launch your legend, there are plenty that give players a...
The Daily Grind: Does any MMORPG have content that can match Desert Bus for monotony?
A few weeks ago, my husband and I were joking about Desert Bus and had to explain it to our kids, who naturally had...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you wish you had quit before you did?
As has been observed by others, we all have stories about romantic interests who qualify as "the one that got away." We tend to...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever met any of your MMO guildies in real life?
I suspect that the pandemic put a bit of a damper on the idea of having guild meetups, just as it brought most conventions...
The Daily Grind: Would you start playing an MMO in soft maintenance mode?
Some games officially announce when they're going into maintenance mode. (And some games then update more than some non-maintenance titles, but that's an exception.)...
The Daily Grind: Does it ever make sense for an MMO to restrict certain classes to specific races?
With the recent news that Lord of the Rings Online is loosening up some restrictions regarding class and race combinations, it seems to have...
The Daily Grind: Do you play any MMOs merely out of habit?
MOP reader Slava recently wrote to us with an intriguing topic about playing MMOs out of habit more than out of enjoyment.
"Back when I...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best looting system in an MMO?
I've had looting on the brain lately for several reasons. For starters, I spent some time working with my son earlier this year helping...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most heroic moment you’ve seen in an MMO?
MMOs are video games. You are not going to save people's lives most of the time, and even if you do it's going to...
The Daily Grind: How dark should the night be in MMOs?
If you are to take anything away from Embers Adrift's development manifestos and enthusiastic essays, it's that MMORPGs have done darkness a dirty deed...
The Daily Grind: What do you do about ‘underperforming’ groupmates in MMOs?
A while back, Visionary Realms posed a brutal question to Pantheon players: How do you handle underperforming people in your MMO groups? The question...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite weird MMO weapon?
Every MMO starts you off with the pretty standard weapon options. There are swords, big swords, axes, hammers, maybe some guns, brass knuckles, staves...
The Daily Grind: Are there any major MMORPGs you haven’t tried yet?
If you are anything like the MOP writers, your passion for the MMO genre has encouraged you to at least try out different titles...
The Daily Grind: How much time do you spend doing non-combat stuff in MMOs?
If you don't watch our streams, you might not have noticed that MOP's Chris and MJ kicked off a series this year in which...
