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The Daily Grind: Are you hostile to mobile MMORPGs?
Happy Friday. Let's talk mobile. MMORPG players in particular run along a certain demographic that does not align well with mobile. Oh, sure, we have...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most iconic MMORPG moment or accomplishment in your memory?
Over the weekend, my husband and I decided to let our son watch bits and pieces of Fellowship of the Ring. My kid is...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever played a WoW expansion?
During BlizzCon this weekend, Eliot and I were chatting about an article series he's working on different periods in MMORPG history. I mentioned 2009...
The Daily Grind: Do you even have any expectations left for BlizzCon?
So. Today's the first day of BlizzCon. Normally, we take the opportunity to ask our community about their expectations and predictions for BlizzCon. But,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most important example of death spiral development in MMOs?
A couple of weeks ago, Justin reminded me of a Guild Wars 2 panel from many years back where ArenaNet addressed Charr armor clipping.
"A Charr...
The Daily Grind: Are you planning to give LOTRO’s new progression server a try?
When Lord of the Rings Online announced its new progression server plan earlier this week, the LOTRO community immediately went into a state of...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you were wrong about your snap judgment of an MMO?
This weekend I finally got to dig into MapleStory 2 beyond the character creator, and I have to say my initial reaction was oh...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst MMO zone transition of all time?
OK, stop me if you've heard this one: You're going along in a new MMORPG, happily zipping across verdant landscapes, doing quests in a...
The Daily Grind: What skills should MMOs give players – but never do?
I was reading the patch notes for the latest update to my favorite Star Wars Galaxies emulator when this line just leaped right out...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst Halloween event in the MMOverse?
No real salt from me today: I personally loved Star Wars Galaxies' Halloweeny Galactic Moon Festival, as ridiculous as it was, and as I mentioned...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest thing you ever did to get into an MMO guild?
On last week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I were joking around about how much guild applications have changed over the last many years...
The Daily Grind: How important are minimaps to your MMORPG experience?
MMO minimaps became the topic of a weird debate this week, as multiple sites appeared to have misunderstood a Belgian magazine's interpretation of the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the goofiest currency in all of MMO land?
So then, MMOs and online games. We've got gems, crystals, shards, marks, tickets, tomes, lumps, keys, tokens, commendations, shells, scraps, favors, coins, orders, fragments,...
The Daily Grind: What online game template will be the next to take off?
Like many of you, I remember the rise of MMOs when it was actually happening. I remember when shooters were king too. And I...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs too optimistic?
I don't mean optimistic in terms of their existential nature, as to whether they have a future, that sort of thing. I mean in...
The Daily Grind: What MMO still needs legacy servers?
2018 has seemed like the year of the legacy/vanilla MMO server, thanks to not just World of Warcraft but RIFT and Age of Conan...
The Daily Grind: What abandoned content in your favortite MMO do you want to see return?
I miss Guild Wars 2's dungeons.
I was trawling Reddit the other day when I saw someone raise a half-hearted complaint about the fact that...
The Daily Grind: What race or species have you never seen in an MMORPG?
A week or so ago, Justin penned a popular Daily Grind about the non-humanoid races/species that always seem to be relegated to "minority status"...
The Daily Grind: What if World of Warcraft had never happened?
Yesterday, in the comments of our Daily Grind about nice things we can say about games we don't like, MOP commenter Squid posted a...
The Daily Grind: What’s the nicest thing you can say about an MMORPG you dislike?
I blame my colleagues in the writers room for this topic: We happened to be discussing the tragic comedy of Warhammer Online's awful crafting...
