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The Daily Grind: What explorer-friendly mechanics should be in more MMOs?

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When Final Fantasy XIV's Futures Rewritten patch arrives next month, it includes a nifty feature called explorer mode that will essentially allow players to...
Fly free, too.

The Daily Grind: Isn’t it time to put an end to land rushes in MMORPGs?

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When Final Fantasy XIV's 5.35 patch arrived this week, the hardcore XIV players on the Massively OP team had very mixed reactions. One triumphed...
Let the dead bury their dead, they will come out in droves.

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs out there could use a level squish of their own?

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MOP backer and fellow blogger Terminally Nerdy pinged us a few weeks back with an interesting conundrum: He was trying to think of other...

The Daily Grind: Are day and night cycles a good or bad thing in MMOs?

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As I type this, I'm waiting on a video game to give me some daylight so I can snap a picture for another article...

The Daily Grind: Is there a location you wish your fave MMO could explore – but never will?

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I have two examples in mind for today's Daily Grind. The first, of course, is Cantha: I've been a broken record on wanting the...

The Daily Grind: What’s the goofiest not-an-MMO acronym you’ve seen an MMO try to adopt?

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There was a phase our genre went through about five or so years ago when every new MMO - even the ones that most...

The Daily Grind: Are you honestly having The Fun in your MMO of choice?

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This is a serious question! A few weeks ago, I was talking to one of our writers about a game he was playing and writing...

The Daily Grind: Do you prefer combat rotations or reactive gameplay in your MMOs?

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It's not every day that I stop what I am doing to mentally clap for a poster on Reddit, but user Rolling-in-the-Meeps prompted just...

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best login screen?

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You might think this is a trivial thing, but I heartily disagree, and all I have to do is point to a login screen...

The Daily Grind: Which musical act do you wish would show up in your core MMO?

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Last week, we saw no less than three announcements of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles collaborating with musical acts and pop stars in their worlds....

The Daily Grind: Are you planning to buy a next-gen console?

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So at this point, we've now seen PlayStation 5 preorders go live, in a clusterfudge Sony has already apologized for, and we've seen Xbox...

The Daily Grind: What location in your favorite MMO have you only recently discovered?

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Until last week, somehow I had heard of the Agrilat Swamp but never actually visited it in Star Wars Galaxies. SWG Legends' @RoarAshley tweeted...
It ensues.

The Daily Grind: How important is player-generated content to you in MMOs?

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When I look at the current crop of top MMORPGs, I'm dismayed to realize that not a single one of them has anything significant...

The Daily Grind: How much do MMOs succeed on faith vs. mechanics and fanbases?

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A while back, MOP's Eliot, Chris, and I were discussing Last Oasis and why it didn't take off. Collectively, I think we determined it...

The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest stunt you’ve ever seen players pull in an MMO?

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I've seen a lot of weird stuff in my day as an MMORPG player, but I'd never seen anyone eat 999 eggs before Ross...
TUG

The Daily Grind: What’s the worst MMO you’ve ever played?

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Earlier this month, I first heard about Josh Strife Hayes, a YouTuber doing noble work by playing his way through a pile of unloved...

The Daily Grind: Are any MMORPGs ever truly ‘ready’ for launch when they launch?

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A few weeks back, I was proofing one of Tyler's Not So Massively columns, when he said this: "In general it was a very polished...

The Daily Grind: What real-world critter do you wish were in more MMOs?

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The other day, my family was having a discussion about why more of the animals they've seen on TV zoo shows are never represented...

The Daily Grind: Are you tempering your Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons expectations?

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Back in March, when Guild Wars 2 first let slip that it was working on something Cantha-ish, we all wrote quite a bit about...
Not surprising, still sad.

The Daily Grind: What’s the worst minigame in an MMO?

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I'm not a minigame person in general - for example, I have long made known my rage for Polymock. (Curse you, Polymock!) But I...

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