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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...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite and least favorite type of MMO daily?
Over the weekend, Guild Wars 2 players on Reddit opened up a discussion about dailies in the game that spoke to me. I used to...
The Daily Grind: How many of you are still playing Guild Wars 2?
As I type this, Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion has been out exactly a month. At the time, I remember making fun...
The Daily Grind: Do you think EA is pivoting into a Star Wars pseudo-MMO?
Yesterday's surprise revelation that EA was canning Visceral Games and "pivoting" the design of its in-progress Star Wars linear adventure RPG clearly struck a...
The Daily Grind: Is PUBG finally the ‘WoW killer killer’ we’ve been waiting for?
Say the words "WoW killer" to a bunch of MMORPG players in 2017 and you're bound to get eyerolls, for good reason: Even though...
The Daily Grind: How should studios solve the gaming-while-rural problem?
If you've ever read any of MOP's Andrew's coverage of Pokemon Go, you've probably noticed a recurring theme: One of his biggest pet peeves...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of ‘automatic helping behaviors’ in MMORPGs?
We've been complaining about lockboxes a lot lately as an unwelcome psychological trick in gaming, so this morning, I wanted to talk about a...
The Daily Grind: Why does EVE survive where other PvP sandboxes stumble?
MOP reader Tobasco da Gama pointed us to a recent Reddit thread about why EVE Online persists, even in a weakened state, where other...
The Daily Grind: Is there MMORPG lingo that you just cannot stand?
In past articles, we've coined some MMO terminology neologisms and expressed confusion over obscure MMO slang, but it's been a while since we talked...
The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs still need traditional guilds?
In the game's design docs and our interviews, Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs is positively adamant that multiguilding (that is, being able to join more than...
The Daily Grind: Is there a ‘youth’ stigma in online gaming?
A couple of nights ago, my husband was playing Overwatch when I heard a pair of high-pitched voices coming across his headset. "Oh cool,...
