nbr-tdg
The Daily Grind: What unique character skills do you wish would show up in more MMOs?
I've been thinking about classic Guild Wars a bit lately. My Ritualist was my favorite character over there, and while I probably logged more...
The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs for the fashion wars?
Whether you call it "fashion wars" as in Guild Wars 2 or "space barbie" as in Star Trek Online or "dolly dress-up" as in...
The Daily Grind: Do you think MMORPG communities are too cynical?
A while back, I stumbled across the most bizarre and lovely multiplayer game I think I've ever seen. It's called Kind Words, and the...
The Daily Grind: What do you want your ‘legacy’ in your current MMO to be?
A few months back, a player on the Pantheon forums posted a neat question asking fellow players what they wanted to be known for...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually engage with player-generated content in MMOs?
Two videos inspired today's Daily Grind. One is a recent episode of Extra Credits about player-generated content in games - what we've always called...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMO experiences you feel you missed out on that can’t possibly be recreated now?
A while back, at the height of the WoW Classic hype, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit by an author who expressed...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most awesome MMORTS title out there?
Do you ever have one of those moments where somebody asks you something that's just ever so slightly adjacent to your field of work...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish the devs would just. stop. touching?
A few weeks back, MOP's Not So Massively columnist Tyler Edwards penned a piece on the problems plaguing Heroes of the Storm, and as...
The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?
Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
The Daily Grind: Do you appreciate MMOs and games that challenge you mentally?
MOP reader and backer Avaera proposed an interesting Daily Grind topic recently about challenges in MMORPGs - and no, "challenge" doesn't refer to boss...
The Daily Grind: Has a class spec or overhaul ever saved an MMO character for you?
Thieves and rogues and backstabby stealthy types don't usually do much for me in MMORPGs. Oh sure, I play a stealth thief in literally...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on wiki-reliant MMORPGs?
MOP reader Alex recently wrote to us about MMOs that seem to be built around their wikis - and why that's not necessarily a...
The Daily Grind: How much does an MMO’s art style determine whether you’ll try it?
I am not much of a Borderlands person, but the franchise has been impossible to ignore the last couple of weeks with the launch...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of dodge and joust mechanics in MMOs?
Deep in the bowels of a Reddit thread about WildStar vs. WoW Classic a while back, several people mentioned WildStar's combat as being one...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most obscure MMO you wish were still around?
I bet you thought this post was gonna be about Zentia, since I loved that game and almost no one remembers it. But it's...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever collected in an MMO?
Back when original-flavor Star Wars Galaxies was alive, I had a bit of an obsession with Ubese shirts. Essentially, they were sleeveless undershirts that...
The Daily Grind: Did you ever skip any great MMOs to play something more popular?
With WoW Classic in the news so much lately, I've been thinking back to 2004 when the original World of Warcraft launched. We've spent...
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: 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...
