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The Daily Grind: How much time do you spend on MMOs you don’t play?
I spend a lot of time talking, reading, and thinking about MMOs I do not play and do not want to play. Some of...
The Daily Grind: Are there places you linger in MMOs just to listen to the soundtrack?
In my years of both playing MMORPGs and talking with other players, I've noticed a trend among some of us where we'll find ourselves...
The Daily Grind: How many scams will it take before MMO players stop falling for it?
A couple of years back, MOP's Eliot wrote a lovely thinkpiece about MMO scams. He pointed out that it's genuinely hard to tell incredibly...
WoW Factor: Flights Rising, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
The Dragon Isles are quite the storied location in World of Warcraft in that it's easy to pull them out and dust them off whenever...
The Daily Grind: What’s a big MMO update everyone loved that you don’t?
So there's a big update for an MMO you like, or you liked in the past, or whatever. It's an update everyone thinks is...
The Daily Grind: What are the most inconsequential pet peeves you hold against MMOs?
When it comes to the topic of pet peeves in gaming, I think there are certainly many valid categories that are deserving of ire,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best boats as of 2022?
In fewer than two weeks, Guild Wars 2 is getting something we've never had before in the game: boats. In fact, you might even...
The Daily Grind: Do you take a lot of screenshots in your MMOs?
I spent a lot of time training to take good screenshots in Final Fantasy XIV specifically because I knew I would want that for this...
The Daily Grind: Do you make your MMO characters look a little too perfect?
Whether an MMO gives me six options or six hundred when it comes to picking a character's looks, I admit that it's awfully hard...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of ‘mule’ characters in MMORPGs?
Back in the long long ago, the concept of a mule in an MMO - that is, a character you rolled but didn't really...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever hope for an MMO project’s failure?
It wouldn't have been long ago that my personal answer to this question would have been a flat and unambiguous "no" because even when...
The Daily Grind: What are your comfort MMOs?
I long ago figured that it was not just OK but actually helpful to have a stable of "comfort" movies and books and games....
The Daily Grind: Are you going to play New Blizzard’s mobile games?
One of the big takeaways from the Activision-Blizzard investor report last week was the reminder mobile is still a cash cow for the company....
The Daily Grind: When and where were you when you first learned about MMOs?
I have told this story once or twice before: I was standing in a store with my boyfriend, rifling through shelves of games, looking...
The Daily Grind: What classes do you always fail at playing in an MMO?
I've tried many a time, and I no doubt will try many more, but I never really enjoy pure casters in MMOs. I love...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO resources regenerate too quickly these days?
You may have to bear with me on this one, but lately I've started to suspect that the pendulum of MMO development has swung...
The Daily Grind: Do you even want a survival game from Blizzard?
Last week, amid the Microsoft buyout and unionization/unionbusting within Activision, Blizzard boldly, absurdly stepped forward and announced that it was hiring for a survival...
The Daily Grind: Will you try Swords of Legends Online out as a free-to-play title?
There was a time when launching as a free-to-play title seemed like an ambitious reach for a new MMO, but at this point it's...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO zones are the most annoying to navigate?
Whew boy, few things raise my ire against game designers as fast as a zone that is horribly conceived and annoying as all get...
The Daily Grind: What will be your top three most-played MMOs in 2022?
A week ago, I asked you folks what your top three most-played MMOs of 2021 were. This week, I want to take a page...
