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The Daily Grind: How much would you pay for a single MMO cosmetic?
A while back, I was fishing around trying to make my husband's Guild Wars 2 Catalyst look a little more elite in the current...
The Daily Grind: Is Lost Ark an MMO, MMORPG, or neither?
Longtime MMO and MMORPG players have probably noticed that we do our best to flag games as MMORPG or as merely multiplayer - "not...
The Daily Grind: What’s the quickest way to derail an MMO expansion?
I think that if I polled veteran MMORPG players about expansions that bombed, they'd probably point to Star Wars Galaxies' Trials of Obi-Wan and...
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO market too segmented?
Back in November 2021's Activision-Blizzard quarterly investor call, Blizzard's Mike Ybarra spoke about the company's vision for the Diablo franchise. He essentially said that...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO that you’re not playing?
The reality of the MMORPG genre is that even when the genre was small, there weren't enough hours in the day to play everything....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO suffers from the worst inflation?
Last week, I got a pingback on my old personal blog: Another site had linked to my 2011 article about inflation in five MMOs...
The Daily Grind: Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons launches today – are you coming to Cantha?
After years and years of joking about and begging for Cantha, Guild Wars 2 players are finally getting it with the launch of End...
The Daily Grind: Are you looking for reasons to *not* play MMOs?
Earlier this week, I was chatting with MOP's Chris about Conan Chop Chop when he mentioned that the game is surprisingly intense. "It will...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an Avatar: The Last Airbender MMO?
A few weeks back, there was a rumor circulating on entertainment websites and Reddit about a supposed Avatar: The Last Airbender MMORPG. According to...
The Daily Grind: Are you more about setting or lore in MMOs?
I have never really thought of myself as a lore person. I don't go into an MMO and memorize the lore or the backstory,...
The Daily Grind: How many scams will it take before MMO players stop falling for it?
A couple of years back, MOP's Eliot wrote a lovely thinkpiece about MMO scams. He pointed out that it's genuinely hard to tell incredibly...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best boats as of 2022?
In fewer than two weeks, Guild Wars 2 is getting something we've never had before in the game: boats. In fact, you might even...
The Daily Grind: Do you still want to play an EverQuest III?
Earlier this winter, Daybreak dropped a ton of details about what to expect from EverQuest and EverQuest II over the course of 2022. What...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of ‘mule’ characters in MMORPGs?
Back in the long long ago, the concept of a mule in an MMO - that is, a character you rolled but didn't really...
The Daily Grind: Are you going to play New Blizzard’s mobile games?
One of the big takeaways from the Activision-Blizzard investor report last week was the reminder mobile is still a cash cow for the company....
The Daily Grind: When and where were you when you first learned about MMOs?
I have told this story once or twice before: I was standing in a store with my boyfriend, rifling through shelves of games, looking...
The Daily Grind: Do you even want a survival game from Blizzard?
Last week, amid the Microsoft buyout and unionization/unionbusting within Activision, Blizzard boldly, absurdly stepped forward and announced that it was hiring for a survival...
The Daily Grind: What will be your top three most-played MMOs in 2022?
A week ago, I asked you folks what your top three most-played MMOs of 2021 were. This week, I want to take a page...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite upcoming Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons elite spec?
Last week, ArenaNet blasted Guild Wars 2 players with an email infographic purporting to show their play stats for the End of Dragons betas....
The Daily Grind: Does Guild Wars 2 need a classic or progression server?
A few weeks back, we had MOP's Colin on the MOP Podcast, and naturally we took the opportunity to talk about Guild Wars 2....
