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The Daily Grind: Is personal challenge or group challenge more important to you in an MMO?
In any kind of MMO, there are a lot of different challenges to endure. They do, however, tend to split a fair bit between personal...
The Daily Grind: What upcoming MMOs have fallen off your radar?
The joke around the Massively OP office is now that Chris is covering Star Citizen news with his angle of expertise, the rest of...
The Daily Grind: How important is player-generated content to you in MMOs?
When I look at the current crop of top MMORPGs, I'm dismayed to realize that not a single one of them has anything significant...
The Daily Grind: What common MMO developer reassurance doesn’t reassure you at all?
At one point, I was tossing an idea around for a Perfect Ten column about a Kickstarter drinking game. It didn't go anywhere, ultimately...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO for pure grinding?
I have a few MMOs that I go to when I want traditional questing or dungeon hopping, but when I'm in the mood for...
The Daily Grind: How much do MMOs succeed on faith vs. mechanics and fanbases?
A while back, MOP's Eliot, Chris, and I were discussing Last Oasis and why it didn't take off. Collectively, I think we determined it...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest stunt you’ve ever seen players pull in an MMO?
I've seen a lot of weird stuff in my day as an MMORPG player, but I'd never seen anyone eat 999 eggs before Ross...
The Daily Grind: Do you try to be patient with new players in MMOs?
Patience is a virtue. It is also something not everyone is very good at - and I include myself in this particular batch because...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best in-game cutscenes and cinematics?
There are a lot of ways that stories can be told in MMORPGs, but one of the most straight-forward and visually exciting is the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst MMO you’ve ever played?
Earlier this month, I first heard about Josh Strife Hayes, a YouTuber doing noble work by playing his way through a pile of unloved...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had an accomplishment in an MMO you didn’t realize until later?
Back when vanilla World of Warcraft was a new thing, I soloed Hogger on my Paladin. This did not strike me as all that...
The Daily Grind: At what point do you consider an MMO ‘beaten?’
"They're MMOs!" I can hear you saying as you read the title up there. "They're designed to never be beaten or finished!"
OK, OK, I...
The Daily Grind: Are any MMORPGs ever truly ‘ready’ for launch when they launch?
A few weeks back, I was proofing one of Tyler's Not So Massively columns, when he said this:
"In general it was a very polished...
The Daily Grind: What real-world critter do you wish were in more MMOs?
The other day, my family was having a discussion about why more of the animals they've seen on TV zoo shows are never represented...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is best for playing alone (not just solo)?
No, I didn't mean "solo." I meant alone. Because there's a difference. There are many games I play where I have friends, established groups of...
The Daily Grind: What lessons hath WoW Classic taught us?
You might have missed it, but WoW Classic just celebrated its first anniversary this past week. It was a huge and slightly messy launch...
The Daily Grind: Are you tempering your Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons expectations?
Back in March, when Guild Wars 2 first let slip that it was working on something Cantha-ish, we all wrote quite a bit about...
The Daily Grind: What would make you reconsider playing an MMO you had sworn off?
There are some games we just declare that we're done playing forever. There are usually good reasons for it, even; decisions are made with...
The Daily Grind: Is the tab-target MMO on the way to becoming extinct?
When I was reading MOP's Tyler's impressions of the recent New World play test, there was one point when I felt my body droop...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst minigame in an MMO?
I'm not a minigame person in general - for example, I have long made known my rage for Polymock. (Curse you, Polymock!) But I...
