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The Daily Grind: What MMO had the best player community in 2017?
It's common wisdom among MMORPG players that player communities thrive in smaller games with lots of history, developer input, and social interaction. Games like...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphical appeal as of 2017?
We don't give out a formal end-of-the-year award for MMO graphics at Massively OP. It'd be almost impossible to come to a consensus. As...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite way to make money in an MMORPG?
Writing about Star Wars Galaxies' emulator last week awoke in me a dormant desire to get back in there and make some pretend money....
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about Destiny 2 six weeks post-launch?
Destiny 2's Curse of Osiris has already been out a few days and... it's not exactly lighting the world on fire. Core fanboys aren't...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO needs a better music system – or any music system?
If you ask any Star Wars Galaxies veteran about the game's most amazing features, I guarantee that the music and dance system will make...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever fallen for an in-game MMO prank?
Stop me if you've heard this one:Â If you fly to the remote Hutton orbital space station in Elite Dangerous, there's a free Anaconda in...
The Daily Grind: Did EA do gamers a big favor with its monetization overreach?
Over the last couple of weeks as players fought EA and Disney turned on its own in the Star Wars Battlefront II mess, I've...
The Daily Grind: Did you take advantage of any Black Friday sales in MMOs this weekend?
I did a ton of shopping - all online, mind you, as I'm not so far gone as to actually put on pants or...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time an MMO made you rethink your hobby?
This past week, my husband has been obsessed with Succubox. It's a satirical clicker game where you start out by click-fighting monsters and buying...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?
Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on WoW’s proposed new PvP system?
Buried in the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth reveals earlier this month was the huge PvP news that eventually, PvP servers, like the...
The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?
Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...
The Daily Grind: What’s the funniest MMORPG?
During last weekend's BlizzCon opening ceremonies, nothing got me like Hearthstone's expansion presentation, and it's not the first time Blizzard's card game has done so....
The Daily Grind: Will you be playing World of Warcraft’s Classic servers?
I think it's safe to say, after all the Nostalrius and legacy server drama from last year, that Blizzard has surprised a lot of...
The Daily Grind: Will you be buying World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion?
In last week's Daily Grind about what it would take to get you back into World of Warcraft, a whole lot of our commenters...
The Daily Grind: What would Blizzard need to do to get you back into World of Warcraft?
In last night's Massively Overthinking on hopes and fears for BlizzCon - which kicks off this afternoon! - I laid out my thoughts on...
The Daily Grind: Should video game developers unionize?
The New York Times ran an op-ed from Kotaku editor Jason Schreier last week outlining the perils of game industry "crunch": 80-to-100-hour weeks, often...
The Daily Grind: How can individual MMO players combat toxicity?
MOP reader Tyler sent us a tip over the weekend that keeps bothering me. According to a post made on Facebook this weekend, a...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMORPG gamer playing Destiny 2?
Pretty much the entire time between when Destiny 1 was announced and the day Destiny 2 was confirmed for PC, every single article we...
