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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs will make to to 20 years?
Unless it mysteriously shutters between now and Monday, Ultima Online is turning 20 next week. Our Game Archaeologist will surely object to an assertion...
The Daily Grind: What one lesson do you wish MMO developers would learn?
MMORPG veteran Raph Koster went on a glorious Twitter tear last week, and I'm sure some of you can relate. In response to a...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel crowdfunded MMOs ‘owe’ you something?
My husband and I were chatting about the whole Chris-Roberts-is-fed-up-with-trolls-and-date-estimates-that-everyone-knows-aren't-going-to-stick thing from last week when he said something that struck me. "It reminds me...
The Daily Grind: Are MMO lockboxes actually even worse than gambling?
MMO blogger Ethan "Isarii" Macfie made an interesting point in one of his recent Critical Writ videos that I think deserves some amplification and...
The Daily Grind: Why are you not into virtual reality?
Massively OP reader and commenter Sally Bowls pointed us to a brief post on Axios in which a VR consultant and former Oculus employee opines...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you played an MMO ‘wrong’?
Over the weekend, MMO blogger and Massively OP frequenter Wolfyseyes posted what I thought was a fantastic piece on playing MMOs "wrong." Eschewing other...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio’s finances worry you the most right now?
During this week's MOP podcast, Justin and I remarked on Funcom's spectacular 2017 financial showing, particularly in light of the fact that its numbers were...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG is the worst at balancing difficulty?
Justin's LOTRO Legendarium article on whether or not Mordor is too difficult struck a chord wth me. "I do not envy devs and their...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs do you wish would come to Steam?
I was poking through my Steam library this weekend hunting for an old game I wanted to install to see whether it still worked...
The Daily Grind: What wishful-thinking PAX West MMORPG announcement would blow you away?
Massively OP's MJ Guthrie is at PAX West (formerly known as PAX Prime, a much catchier name if you ask me!) for us this...
The Daily Grind: What do you actually expect to get out of MMORPG lockboxes?
MMO blogger Bhagpuss has an intriguing multi-angle post out this week criticizing, rightly in my mind, Guild Wars 2's lockboxes, but not the way...
The Daily Grind: Will Blizzard announce the next World of Warcraft expansion at BlizzCon 2017?
With World of Warcraft's 7.3 Shadows of Argus mega-patch launching next week, speculation in the community has turned once again to what comes after Argus....
The Daily Grind: Do MMORPG studios worry too much about player retention?
Back in March, we used a Richard Bartle blog post to discuss retention in MMOs and how developers could up their stickiness factor. But in...
The Daily Grind: Do you expect MMO expansions to include new classes, or is a new spec good enough?
Back when Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire was announced, a number of our commenters sparred over whether or not the game's elite specs...
The Daily Grind: What MMO would you like to see dump its branding or IP?
On Tuesday, Daybreak formally announced that the neglected PvE half of H1Z1, Just Survive, would be shedding its H1Z1 branding once and for all. The...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever felt the need to cut back on your MMORPG playtime?
A couple of months ago, Lifehacker ran an article that might just save somebody: It's titled How to Cut Back on Playing Video Games,...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of Guild Wars 2’s non-traditional mounts?
Mounts are the big new thing in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion, and as I've previously mentioned, I was initially concerned about...
The Daily Grind: How long before an MMO or expansion launch do you want to know about it?
I admit to being worried about Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion release as the year wore on and we'd still heard nothing....
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for gamers who are sick of raiding?
In the middle of the conversation spawned by yesterday's financial news that Guild Wars 2 had seen its worst revenue quarter since launch, several...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most important feature of MMO inventory systems?
A couple of weeks ago, we ran a story on ARK Park that included the image above, which just cracked me up. I mean,...
