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The Daily Grind: Do you have any MMO goals you want to accomplish before 2023 ends?

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There are a lot of ways to set your MMO goals over the years and months, and the most obvious one is trying to...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio had the best dev communication in 2023?

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Later this month, we'll be dishing out our awards, including our award for best MMO studio. But I know as well as anyone that...

The Daily Grind: Should all PvP-centric MMOs offer ‘safer seas’ servers?

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By now you may have heard that Sea of Thieves -- a famously PvP-centered game -- is incorporating a smaller "safer seas" PvE mode for those...

The Daily Grind: What was the best new race added to an MMORPG in 2023?

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This question is an easy one for me because I play Lord of the Rings Online, which added River Hobbits this year. While there...

The Daily Grind: What was the most important innovation in MMOs in 2023?

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It's weird to think about, but I don't really think MMORPGs are particularly innovative. Maybe they never have been. They're always walking a fine...
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The Daily Grind: What’s your least favorite death penalty in an MMO?

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Just going to throw out a controversial statement here: Nobody really wants to die in a video game. When your health reaches zero and...

The Daily Grind: Do you wait for fresh start servers to come back to an MMO?

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I don't think that MMO vets and developers entrenched into a particular game realize just how daunting it is for lapsed players to actually...

The Daily Grind: Do you budget your Black Friday MMO and Steam purchases?

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So here we are at the dawn of another Black Friday, and in spite of the fact that I really hate the FOMO nature...
Gathering.

The Daily Grind: What’s your MMO comfort food?

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It won't be deeply satisfying for everyone, but regardless of the MMO, I find something deeply satisfying about just gathering. Once I establish a...
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The Daily Grind: Which version of World of Warcraft has you interested the most right now?

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Is World of Warcraft turning into a cable package with so many different channels that it's impossible to consume it all? It sure seems like it...

The Daily Grind: What’s your first move when you run out of storage in MMOs?

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I'm a hoarder in MMORPGs. MJ's the queen, no doubt, but I do have a sizeable collection of stuff in just about every game...

The Daily Grind: Should MMO devs focus on quality-of-life features over content?

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Today's Daily Grind is not really about any one MMO, so hear me out. I came across a thought-provoking poll the other day from...
He likes Legos.

The Daily Grind: How much do you care about performance rankings in your MMO of choice?

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I have an odd sort of relationship with performance when it comes to my MMO choices, whether it be class or skills or whatever....

The Daily Grind: How do you best express yourself in an MMO?

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Even though MMOs are virtual worlds, the people who interact with them are (reportedly) quite authentic. And as it is in the real world,...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most excessive whaling you’ve ever seen in an MMO?

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Every time I think whaling in the MMO industry can't get any worse, some game comes along and proves me wrong. That was the...
This is the face of giving a damn.

The Daily Grind: What’s your most shameful MMO confession?

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Once, a friend of mine in Final Fantasy XI told me that she trusted me enough to confess to something serious. My brain briefly...
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The Daily Grind: How dedicated are you to wealth generation in MMOs?

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There was a span of time a few years back when I heavily engaged with the World of Warcraft economy to make as much...

The Daily Grind: What’s clogging up your main MMO character’s bank right now?

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Lord of the Rings Online seems deliberately designed to make even people who enjoy organizing inventories (me) a wee bit crazy about it. I...

The Daily Grind: What’s the coziest MMO that isn’t technically a cozy MMO?

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We have the Lord of the Rings Online general chat to thank for inspiring this Daily Grind, as I recently saw one player make...
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The Daily Grind: Do your MMO builds gravitate toward aesthetics or mechanics?

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Every single class and build in every MMO is governed by two separate but interlocking things, the look and the feel. These things do...

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