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The Daily Grind: Would you play Guild Wars 2 Classic?
At the end of this week's podcast, Justin and I were chatting about Guild Wars 2's big announcement that's coming up later today, and...
The Daily Grind: Did you fall for WoW Classic, and what do you think so far?
They almost got me, but not in the end. Right around 3 p.m. yesterday, just before the servers went live, in spite of my...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the best (worst?) at ruining classes?
A recent thread on the MMORPG subreddit caught my attention: Do you ever dread what's gonna happen to your class when an expansion is...
The Daily Grind: Are you making any special preparations ahead of WoW Classic?
This is it, folks: your last weekend before WoW Classic. It's your last time to prepare yourselves before you dive into the comfortable old...
The Daily Grind: Do you vote in MMO player elections?
This week I spent a bit of time perusing the Star Wars Galaxies Legends Discord, where candidates for the player Senate are making stump...
The Daily Grind: What’s a neat MMO mechanic that nobody’s trying anymore?
A few weeks back, I was thinking about classic Star Wars Galaxies and the game's training system. While you could gain experience by doing...
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO genre dead or dying – or something else entirely?
PC Gamer made waves across the MMO genre this week with an article provocatively titled "For MMO diehards, there's only one conversation: is the...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you’ve bought and never played?
It's sort of a running joke in the gaming world, especially for folks whose gaming revolves around Steam, that we all buy games cheaply...
The Daily Grind: How should MMOs handle flying mounts in future content?
A couple of weeks ago on the Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I derailed into a discussion about flight in MMOs and how MMOs...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG boasts the most outrageously oversized weapons?
Last week, an old friend of my family (who happens to be an amazing photographer) uploaded a fab shot of a statue of a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO with housing do you wish had even better housing?
A weekend or two ago, I finally decided to get a house in Villagers & Heroes. I've been building it up in my mind...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best farming and gardening experience?
Not gonna lie, I really like farming in MMOs. No, not the grindy kind of farming, just the actual process of farming crops on...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best player-run event you’ve ever witnessed in an MMO?
It'd be tempting to think that back in the long, long ago when MMOs were still young, MMO players weren't quite as jaded about...
The Daily Grind: Has there ever been MMO loot you desperately wanted but never got?
Throughout the course of my MMO play, I've found that some loot I've craved is simply never meant to be. Sometimes it's an expensive...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most creative class in all of the MMO genre?
I have long held that Wakfu offers the most original and indeed truly unique classes across the entire span of the MMO genre, but...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMO zones that you absolutely hate to leave?
Last week, in the comments of Tyler's Soapbox about Lord of the Rings MMOs, a few commenters were discussing LOTRO's version of the Shire...
The Daily Grind: Has a free trial ever convinced you to buy an MMO?
Many years ago when my guild was between home games, we decided to conduct a little experiment to entertain ourselves while we waited for...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever forgotten about an MMO character you played?
MOP's Tyler dropped an amusing remark in our work chat a while back about forgetting stuff in MMOs - in his case, an MMO...
The Daily Grind: What was the last MMORPG you played out of pure nostalgia?
Yesterday, Rock Paper Shotgun penned a piece on video game nostalgia. Editor Brian Caldwell interviewed a pile of game devs about why specifically they're...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would’ve benefited from early access?
In our mailbag podcast a few weeks back, we answered a question about Wildstar, specifically about whether early access might have helped the game...