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The Daily Grind: So what *should* we call the metaverse?
Back in April, we covered a whitepaper from MMO designer Raph Koster, who just so happens to be building a metaverse MMO - or...
The Daily Grind: When was the best time to be a fan of World of Warcraft?
Last week, an influencer tweeted out that "there's never been a better time to be a fan of World of Warcraft." I'm not going...
The Daily Grind: When has an ‘improvement’ in an MMO made it much worse?
I haven't taken any German since college, but I did recently learn a new word: verschlimmbesserung, which essentially translates to "disimprovement" - specifically, an...
The Daily Grind: Has there ever been an MMO that over time morphed into a game you no longer love?
The temptation with a title like that is to talk about World of Warcraft slowly and inexorably doubling-down on its least fun content year...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are more fun to watch than play?
I have made no secret of the fact that while I watch a lot of YouTube, I seldom enjoy video game videos or streams;...
The Daily Grind: People still play that game?
The other day, my husband jokingly said of an MMO that he plays, "People still play that game?" and I laughed out loud before...
The Daily Grind: What’s the least-loved class in your most-loved MMO?
A few weeks back, MOP's Justin penned a piece arguing that the Burglar is the least-loved class in Lord of the Rings Online -...
The Daily Grind: Do incoherent art styles in MMOs bother you?
My husband was playing SMITE the other day and showed me a new skin for Aphrodite that is super cute and cartoony (and I...
The Daily Grind: Would you keep playing an MMO if it deleted your favorite class?
Last week, Nexon announced the unthinkable: It told players it was immediately locking creation of one of the game's playable character classes, Jett, and...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO studio that doesn’t even make a game you like?
I'm going to dip slightly outside of true MMOs to answer this one and pick Bungie as my choice. Destiny 2 is not a...
The Daily Grind: How could Blizzard make World of Warcraft more appealing to former players?
Eliot's column about World of Warcraft feeling like a dead mall struck a chord with our commenters, many of whom agreed with the feels...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO studios manipulate their playerbases with trolling and tribalism?
A few weeks ago, MOP Chris and I were discussing Star Citizen's antics - remember the video with the coffee? - and it was...
The Daily Grind: What are the best and worst horizontal progression systems in an MMORPG?
This morning, I want to talk about horizontal progression systems in MMOs, of which I am generally a fan! And I'm gonna start with...
The Daily Grind: What are some demonstrably wrong things about old MMOs that people insist were true anyway?
A while back, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit arguing that "minmaxing an information abundance has ruined MMORPGs" and posited that devs...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most unique weapon in an MMO?
I'm sure we've done pieces on unusual weapons in MMOs over the years - we've done thousands of Daily Grinds, after all - but...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO’s lore makes your eyes glaze over?
Earlier this week, Blizzard posted up a brief in-universe timeline of the Diablo IP's storyline, and in spite of my having played these games,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the least fair regional pricing?
Last week, we got a letter from a gamer in Türkiye (hiya kaickul!) who was frustrated with Blizzard's regional pricing for Diablo II Resurrected...
The Daily Grind: Does it bug you when MMO cash shops rotate out their buyables?
One of my few pet peeves with Guild Wars 2 has been the design of its cash shop, which traditionally has rotated through its...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an MMO with a premade character?
I tend to think that if I were trying to come up with a list of mechanics and concepts and features that pretty much...
The Daily Grind: What’s the mark of a bad player in your MMO of choice?
Before we start this Daily Grind, I need to point out that good players make bad plays all the time, and I bet everybody...
