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The Daily Grind: Are we plagued by a ‘video game culture reset’?
Author and academic Ian Bogost recently tweeted something that struck me, particularly since it's a topic I harp on all the time. "Video-game culture resets...
The Daily Grind: Would your favorite MMORPG benefit from more servers?
Back around when Elder Scrolls Online launched Greymoor, I saw an interesting thread on the official forums asking for new servers. For some MMOs,...
The Daily Grind: Are you a min-maxer in MMORPGs?
A few weeks back, the Skyrim Grandma - aka Shirley Curry, who's been profiled in our own Massively Uplifting column more than once -...
The Daily Grind: Do you eat while playing MMORPGs?
Back in May, Newzoo came out with a report that asserts something like four in five gamers across the world are also busy stuffing...
The Daily Grind: Would you want to see Project Copernicus finished and released?
Last week, THQ Nordic raised eyebrows when it announced the truly awful name for its rerelease of one of the titles it bought from...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you played a ‘dead’ MMO
Earlier this week, I trolled myself by picking up the charity Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. I say I trolled myself because...
The Daily Grind: Do you bother reporting miscreants in MMORPGs?
Retired MOP writer and all around epic human Mike Foster (yo Mike!) recently tweeted about his days working as a GM for World of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG sees the most multiboxing as of 2020?
A couple of months ago, I read a post on the Nomadic Gamers, Eh! blog where Stargrace begins her post talking about multboxing in...
The Daily Grind: What was the last ‘new’ thing you learned about an MMO you’ve played a long time?
So I've been playing SWG Legends about two years now, and yet I'm constantly learning things that are completely new to me. For example,...
The Daily Grind: Are gaming subs due for a comeback?
When I first started at Massively-that-was, over 10 years ago now, I remember it being a crash-course not in MMOs, which I knew backward...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?
A few weeks back, I was swapping my SWG Legends character to a new class when my five-year-old daughter started begging me to swap...
The Daily Grind: Should gamers be entitled to jump MMO queues if they sub?
The launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor this week was a bit of a bungle, though not one we've never seen before. Launching MMOs...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is most in need of a major quality-of-life overhaul?
MOP reader Ashfyn recently made an offhand comment about quality-of-life upgrades in MMOs that caught my attention. " was a my favorite game back...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about offline play in MMORPGs?
I spend a... lot of time in Star Wars Galaxies on the SWG Legends rogue server. I poke fun at myself for this, but...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of underwater MMO zones and content?
Underwater zones in video games has been a hot topic lately. I don't know who started it, but I noticed when I saw the...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the shortest leveling content?
One of the oddball things I actually liked about Star Wars Galaxies - even its NGE version - was how wildly fast leveling went...
The Daily Grind: What MMO should a true MMO newbie try in 2020?
If you've ever been to generalist gaming Reddits, you know one of the most common threads is the "what should I play" thread, which...
The Daily Grind: If you had your way, what one MMO patch in history would you roll back?
Rollbacks are in the news lately, and not for great reasons - some Guild Wars 2 players did indeed lose hours of time played...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO paradigm shift you didn’t see coming a decade ago?
One thing I'm particularly proud of is that the MOP staff and MMO community - then on old Massively - were waaaaay out in...
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...
