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The Daily Grind: What MMO would look the best with a cel-shaded style?
I'm not really over Peria Chronicles, but one of the things that attracted my interest to the game was the loveliness of its cel-shaded graphics...
The Daily Grind: How have other MMO players amused you?
I absolutely love the fact that massively multiplayer titles give me a social experience even when I'm in a room all by myself. Bumping...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish had an emulator – but doesn’t?
A few weeks back, when The Matrix 4 news hit, I spent some time digging around The Matrix Online's community so that I could...
The Daily Grind: Have queues ever turned you off from an MMO?
Queues bother me. I'd like to say they don't, but they really do. I don't take them as a personal affront or anything, though;...
The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you got absolutely sucked into an MMO?
I both love and hate those periods of time when I get sucked into an MMORPG. Usually this comes when a game first launches,...
The Daily Grind: Which class would you just love to port from one MMO to another?
Earlier this summer, Standing Stone Game announced a brand-new and unique class for Dungeons and Dragons Online: the Alchemist. No, it's not just another...
The Daily Grind: What was the last MMO that you regretted quitting?
Last spring, I made a hard call: I finally decided that I wasn't playing Ultima Online enough to justify a sub. That's not just...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle cancellations for MMOs you were looking forward to?
I've been very open about my interest in Peria Chronicles basically from the start of its development, so the fact that it certainly appears to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the vibe that you want your MMO character to exude?
Have you hugged your bread lately? No, that's not today's Daily Grind question, it's just the natural follow-up to witnessing the above picture from...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you not play but would still miss if it were gone?
I don't play RIFT. I never had, and on the occasions when I have it's kind of just not been my thing. But I still...
The Daily Grind: Are you up for a buy-to-play ArcheAge?
Last week's news that ArcheAge is prepping a new buy-to-play, anti-pay-to-win server certainly caught a lot of our community's attention -- and divided its...
The Daily Grind: Did you fall for WoW Classic, and what do you think so far?
They almost got me, but not in the end. Right around 3 p.m. yesterday, just before the servers went live, in spite of my...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the best (worst?) at ruining classes?
A recent thread on the MMORPG subreddit caught my attention: Do you ever dread what's gonna happen to your class when an expansion is...
The Daily Grind: What MMO did you not give enough credit until after the fact?
Sometimes I ask myself whether I really liked WildStar as much as it deserved. Obviously, it's a kind of inherently silly line of thinking;...
The Daily Grind: What MMO did you forget was still alive and kicking?
The other day the Ryzom team sent us a tweet that basically told us that the game was still alive and there was stuff...
The Daily Grind: Are you making any special preparations ahead of WoW Classic?
This is it, folks: your last weekend before WoW Classic. It's your last time to prepare yourselves before you dive into the comfortable old...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO weather effect?
When you first walk into the First in Final Fantasy XIV, you're greeted by the weather of Everlasting Light. While I don't know it...
The Daily Grind: What do you do when you hit a wall in an MMO?
It's all about forward momentum. As long as there's a path forward, as long as there's a way to progress, I'm happy. Even if...
The Daily Grind: Do you vote in MMO player elections?
This week I spent a bit of time perusing the Star Wars Galaxies Legends Discord, where candidates for the player Senate are making stump...
The Daily Grind: What’s a neat MMO mechanic that nobody’s trying anymore?
A few weeks back, I was thinking about classic Star Wars Galaxies and the game's training system. While you could gain experience by doing...