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The Daily Grind: Which MMO is worth playing because of its lore?
A few weeks ago in a Massively Overthinking, Tyler landed one hell of a double-dunk on SWTOR and EVE Online almost in passing, suggesting...
The Daily Grind: How much of your MMO time is spent on ‘chores’?
A few months ago, I read a thread on Reddit about chores in MMORPGs, and I remember nodding vigorously because I use the word...
The Daily Grind: What should MMO subscriptions actually pay for?
When I first started playing MMORPGs, I didn't know what an expansion was because no MMORPG had ever had one. I paid my subscription...
The Daily Grind: What are the MMO hills you’re willing to die on, metaphorically?
MOP reader IronSalamander inspired today's Daily Grind with his comment on game preservation, which he declared a hill he'd be willing to die on.
"All...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO saw its hype die shockingly quickly?
We get some weird PR in our inbox, but the other day a grown-ass man being paid four times what I make woke up...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a plan for what happens to your MMO accounts when you die?
Ars Technica penned a piece a few weeks back about the legal quagmire awaiting people who hope to legally pass their Steam accounts on...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs suffering from the ‘tyranny of IP’?
Back in May, a Sony Pictures executive did a one hell of an interview on Deadline that, among other things, complained about the "tyranny...
The Daily Grind: What do you expect out of MMORPG roadmaps?
So as we wait for New World's promised Q&A for PC players today following the botched Aeternum reveal at Summer Game Fest, New World...
The Daily Grind: What are the scariest words in the MMORPG genre?
The other day I was chatting up a friendly MMO dev who - in the context of the then-still-fresh Elder Scrolls Online rollback -...
The Daily Grind: Would you trade places with any of your MMORPG toons?
Most of my MMORPG characters do not live gentle or safe lives. My Lord of the Rings Online hobbit Hunter is constantly being set...
The Daily Grind: What part of MMO design seems much easier to MMO players than it really is?
A while back, I saw someone make an offhand comment about how to save New World. According to this commenter (no names, not dunking),...
The Daily Grind: Ships, mounts, or vehicles – do you have a preferred mount type in MMOs?
MOP's own Chris inspired today's Daily Grind as last week he was drooling all over the newly revealed Elite Dangerous spaceship. "Seeing this new...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst whaling in a multiplayer game you’ve seen in the last year?
This week, mainstream MOBA gamers flipped alllll the tables over Riot Games' gambit to sell a $450 League of Legends cosmetics bundle themed around...
The Daily Grind: Do you bring any habits from one MMO to the next?
So a few weekends ago, I was doing overworld questing on my Hobbit Hunter in Lord of the Rings Online when I caught myself...
The Daily Grind: Is there a popular MMORPG you’ve still never played?
I've been playing MMORPGs so long that it's a rare title that I've never tried at all. There are tons of MMOs I've at...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs are more about PvE than PvM?
We don't talk about PvM vs. PvE all that much in the MMORPG genre, but we should. Maybe we like a PvE vs. PvP...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best desert biome in MMOs?
Until I lived in one for a few years in real life, I was not a big fan of the desert - anywhere. Cue...
The Daily Grind: What is the ‘gold standard’ example of MMORPGs?
Earlier this year, a poster on the MMORPG subreddit posted a controversial take: While admitting that he hadn't actually played EVE Online in a...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for playing on a potato?
I saw a thread on the MMORPG subreddit a while back asking about MMOs that function well on low-end machines, and I was actually...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO companies care about game preservation?
With game preservation back in the news thanks to Ubisoft's The Crew criming and the Stop Killing Games initiative, I thought it would be...
