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The Daily Grind: What keeps you logging into MMORPGs over a long period of time?
Earlier this month, Pantheon's community team tweeted out a question that keeps coming back to me: "What motivates you to play an MMORPG for...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the dumbest armor?
Back in February, PC Gamer put out a piece on the absolute dumbest character armor in gaming history. There's more than one MMORPG in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest scandal the MMORPG genre has ever seen?
Over the weekend in the Guild Wars 2 spyware article comments, a commenter remarked that Blizzard's Warden spyware was "the biggest scandal in MMOs"...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a ‘guilty pleasure’ MMO?
As comments and tweets and nastygrams in my inbox have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, it doesn't matter whether you've put in years of...
The Daily Grind: Do you get grumpy over MMO events on repeat?
I'm a huge fan of Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box, even if I am not the best jumper in the world. My kid...
The Daily Grind: What do you consider ‘meaningful’ MMO content?
Massively OP commenter DK went on a Twitter tear last week that caught my eye. He was criticizing the way some MMORPG players use...
The Daily Grind: How do you deal with muscle memory when playing multiple MMORPGs?
I've been playing two games that focus a lot on jumping lately: Trove and Guild Wars 2, specifically Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best ‘spiral’ gameplay?
Last week, in his Ready Player One piece from GDC, MOP's Andrew paraphrased something from Darewise's Randy Smith that stuck out to me.
"hemepark development...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best April Fools’ Day prank this year? (2018)
April Fools' Day this year has been pretty weird, given that MMO studios started rolling out their pranks and events in the middle of...
The Daily Grind: How do you deal with your anger in MMORPGs?
Earlier this month, Overwatch made headlines when a player posted up a behavioral therapy chart his wife - who happens to be a therapist...
The Daily Grind: Are blacklists, quizzes, and threats effective at reducing text toxicity in MMOs?
Toxicity in online gaming just keeps popping up - specifically as it pertains to chat and commenting.
MOP reader Tanek pointed us to a thread about...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most creative way MMOs thwart toxicity?
Forget group-kicks: If you're a tool in Sea of Thieves, your own shipmates might just opt to stuff you in the brig - "a...
The Daily Grind: Is player trading a make-or-break MMO feature for you?
MOP reader Xijit recently pointed us to a thread on Bless Online's Steam page where players are noting that person-to-person trading is not currently...
The Daily Grind: Are you playing Sea of Thieves?
It's officially Sea of Thieves day; the game launched here in the US in the wee hours of this morning. During our awards rollout...
The Daily Grind: Is ‘griefing’ possible in an open PvP sandbox?
I was snooping around the Star Citizen Spectrum forums last week when I bumped into a topic that made me back up my snooping...
The Daily Grind: Why do you read and write MMO reviews?
Rock Paper Shotgun has an intriguiging pair of articles out this week on video game reviews. The first covered what game developers think about...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you binged on an MMO, and what was it?
Over the weekend, thanks to a perfect combination of nothing pressing on my calendar for a change, an injured ankle, and crappy weather, I...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has most improved its UI over the years?
In an earlier Daily Grind on peripherals, I mentioned how I used to fold up a piece of paper into a triangular prism, write...
The Daily Grind: Do you multitask while playing MMORPGs?
Years ago, I had the bright idea to go to extremes to multitask while playing World of Warcraft. I set my laptop on a...
The Daily Grind: Can a sub still work for MMORPGs in 2018?
Last week, almost buried in the avalanche of other news was a datapoint from SuperData that the analytics firm characterized as bad news for...
