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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite empty, neglected zone in an MMORPG?
Since dipping my toe back into classic Guild Wars last month for the anniversary fun, I took myself on a wee tour of some...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO-specific meme?
Playing lots of MMOs can help you understand the discourse around them... which, as often as not, is crouched deep in the language of...
The Daily Grind: Does MMO inventory weight add immersion?
In a recent Pantheon developer livestream, the team announced that it was going to give coins in the game weight to add to the...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios be more transparent about population stats?
Some of our staff were idly chatting about Wargaming's playerbase this week when MOP's Ben chimed in with a link to the official World...
The Daily Grind: What false MMO rumor did you totally buy into at one point?
In Final Fantasy XI, all Goblin enemies have an ability called Bomb Toss. It hurts your entire party a fair amount when it hits,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best Necromancer class?
Do you like to play with dead things? Heck, who doesn't? It's one of the most well-adjusted activities that any person can do while...
The Daily Grind: Is there a specific point in an MMO’s development when you know it’s doomed?
I was tabbing back through one of my favorite Old Massively columns when I bumped into this quote and had to go look up...
The Daily Grind: How good are you at spacing out your MMO content consumption?
I know people in Final Fantasy XIV who have already finished getting all of their Skysteel Tools fully upgraded. This is, in and of...
The Daily Grind: Do you play the MMO fashion wars?
I care about how I look. Obviously not in a real life, because I've chosen to be a short, lumpy gnome of questionable heritage,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you let your own kids play?
A while back, in the long long ago when we could still talk to humans in person, I was chatting with the mom of...
The Daily Grind: Which of your MMO characters has kept the same look for the longest time?
One of my Death Knights in World of Warcraft has had the same outfit for years. It basically hasn't budged since Cataclysm, and I...
The Daily Grind: When have you felt like an idiot in an MMO?
While I'm sure that you have it all together and project the infallible air of someone who strides with the greatest of purpose, there's...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been harassed in an MMO?
Riot's Valorant made headlines this past weekend, and not entirely for reasons Riot would've liked, when multiple Riot devs spoke up about harassment they've...
The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMORPG-related subreddits?
If you don't read much Reddit, you might be unaware that the one most squarely on point with our genre, /r/MMORPG, had a bit...
The Daily Grind: Are free-to-play MMOs slower when it comes to advancement?
As free-to-play became the dominant business model in MMOs over time, it was totally understandable to wonder at first what free-to-play games would do...
The Daily Grind: What elements feel out of place in your MMO?
I'm generally a flexible person when it comes to encountering a variety of fictional worlds, but I do expect the creators to be internally...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG boasts the best animal husbandry or taming system?
Last week, we wrote about Project Gorgon's animal husbandry system thanks to a tip from MOP reader Dalton, and I have to say I...
The Daily Grind: Do you take part in absurd general chat in MMOs?
For all that Barrens Chat in classic World of Warcraft has long been considered vile enough to break out the capital letters, it's easy...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO cosmetic pet?
Yeah, this is the very definition of a fluffy post! I'm just a big proponent of cosmetic pets in MMOs, partially because it adds...
The Daily Grind: Does ESRB’s and PEGI’s new lockbox label go far enough?
Last week, ESRB in the US and PEGI in the EU announced they would both be amending their video game rating systems to use...
