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The Daily Grind: Does teaching toxic MMO gamers what they did wrong actually help?
As RPS reported this week, Valve has taken the relatively unusual step of making your Dota 2 and CSGO report cards semi-public - that is,...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle content lulls in MMORPGs?
MOP reader Joel recently wrote into us with a link to a Dark Legacy Comic (#634) that succinctly captures the problem of content lulls...
The Daily Grind: Will you sub to EA’s new ‘Origin Access Premier’ service?
During EA Play this weekend, EA announced Origin Access Premier, its attempt at a subscription service on PC. For $100 a year, you'll basically...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG vet reward you’ve ever gotten?
CCP Games rolled out a pretty sweet veteran reward for EVE Online vets this week ahead of the game's anniversary: Everybody who's been playing...
The Daily Grind: Do you start over in MMOs when your character or account is maxed out?
Over the last year or so, my six-year-old has been making his way through LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga on our old PS3....
The Daily Grind: Do you feel pressure to play MMOs for daily bonuses or experience events?
On Wednesdays, we farm gems.
In Trove, that is. That's because ever since Trion revamped the daily login system, players get a daily bonus for...
The Daily Grind: How important is person-to-person trading in an MMORPG?
Earlier in May, Neowiz clarified that the western version of Bless Online, like Black Desert, would eschew player-to-player trading, sticking instead to just an...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time somebody recommended an MMO you actually wound up liking?
Across the MMORPG universe, gamers are always asking, what should I play? It's in our comments, on Reddit, in every guild and global chat...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG would you want to ‘live’ in if you had to live there forever?
MOP reader Oleg suggested today's Daily Grind in the bowels of the mystified comments under our piece on Entropia Universe on Wednesday. In a...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel an obligation to ‘finish’ the MMOs you start, even if it feels like ‘homework’?
A quote from legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro I saw on Twitter the other day is fast on the way to becoming my mantra. io9 transcribed...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever walked away from an MMO over a studio’s treatment of its playerbase?
Star Wars Galaxies' NGE is one of the MMORPG genre's favorite bugbears: We pull it out as a warning, a label of doom, every...
The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMORPG to offer an optional sub that isn’t pay-to-win?
Last week, in the comments under the Bless optional subscription brouhaha article, I made an offhand comment that apparently got MOP commenter Sally's gears...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMORPG characters primarily wear in-game armor or cash-shop cosmetics?
Take a look at your main character in your main MMORPG right now. What is he or she wearing? And did you get it...
The Daily Grind: Have you backed any MMO Kickstarters that you deeply regret?
Yesterday, as our writers were shaking their heads over Star Citizen's latest shenanigans, Eliot cracked a joke about how having backed the game had...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ‘twinking’ in MMORPGs?
Last month, I took a few hours to put together a care package in Ultima Online for Eliot - a bag of gear, potions,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the silliest gaming terminology you’ve heard recently?
Silly gaming terminology is one of my favorite things to mock around here - I'm a huge fan of Eliot's ongoing series on gaming terms,...
The Daily Grind: Do you make an effort to be positive and friendly in MMORPGs?
Despite concerns about the pervasiveness of toxicity in gaming, most gamers are not toxic. Outside of extremely social MMOs, I suspect most people probably...
The Daily Grind: Do you buy the Daybreak-owns-Standing Stone Games rumor?
Buried in the Daybreak ruckus of last week was the rumor that Daybreak is not in fact merely the publisher of Standing Stone Games'...
The Daily Grind: What is the greatest hoax or fake leak in all of MMORPG history?
Hah, you thought this one was going to be about Daybreak. But it's not. No, today's Daily Grind was actually inspired by something Guild Wars...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG features the most ‘hostile design’?
Last week, the Extra Credits crew did a feature on hostile architecture aka unpleasant design - a way of papering over a problem in...
