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The Daily Grind: What scares you about the MMO industry?

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People have been telling me to stop worrying so much my whole life, but worrying is how I cope with uncertainty, and there's a...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most macabre thing you’ve done or seen in an MMORPG?

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MJ's coverage of the new gravedigging mechanics in Path of Exile (bury corpses of whole families together for a stat boost!) got me thinking...

The Daily Grind: What’s your most-used consumable in MMORPGs?

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I've been thinking a lot of about economy problems lately - economy problems in MMORPGs, that is. It's a confluence of discussions, really: my...

The Daily Grind: Have daily login bonuses ever gotten you to stay in an MMORPG?

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Back in February, Lord of the Rings Online kicked off another one of its promotions that I assume is meant to get people who...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are best primed for retirement gamers?

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A conversation with MOP's Carlo the other day made me wonder about this topic. Folks who were 40 or so when the first MMOs...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most unlucky MMO?

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A few weeks back when Fractured Online was contending with yet another round of exploits, rollbacks, and downtime, MOP reader Gidja remarked that perhaps...

The Daily Grind: What’s your current backup MMORPG?

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I'm really enjoying what I'm considering my second wind in MMORPGs, fam. I had a rough spot in the mid-teens after the original Star...

The Daily Grind: What’s the hardest MMORPG to return to after a long time away?

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When I returned to Lord of the Rings Online several years ago, I'd been away for a very, very long time - so long...
they don't know i can't kill a basic boss

The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive item you’ve ever seen someone buy or sell in an MMORPG?

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I'm talking about in-game currencies, not cash-shop crappies, mind you! Last night, I attended a posh auction in City of Heroes Homecoming on the Everlasting...

The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on ‘backfilling’ in instanced MMO content?

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My husband and son have been playing a lot of Destiny 2 again, and a few weekends back I overheard them complaining about backfilling....

The Daily Grind: So who thinks Camelot Unchained is really launching next year?

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Unchained Games fka City State Entertainment is one of the rare few studios that gets a standard disclaimer in our posts, and for those...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you kept installed the longest whether you play it or not?

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A few weeks back, I asked y'all about the MMOs that have a permanent place on your device, the ones you'll never uninstall. I...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever gone a long period without playing MMORPGs?

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I was thinking about this topic a few weeks ago when chatting with MOP's Eliot about some of our formative experiences in the genre....

The Daily Grind: Have you ever ruined an MMO character to the point of deletion?

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I was hanging out in City of Heroes a few weeks back when someone in chat mentioned that back in the day, he had...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO could use a rebrand?

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Indulge me, MMO fans, for just a minute for a makeup analogy. If you follow makeup trends, you know that for the last year...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG’s graphics hold up long past their due?

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When Dark Age of Camelot first hit beta a million years ago, I remember being super impressed with its graphics. Up until that point,...
No, saying that you don't care is not actually an answer.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO provides the most opportunity for ‘worthy deaths’?

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MMO designer Damion Schubert recently penned a lengthy thread on Bluesky all about death - death in MMOs, that is. He opined that game...

The Daily Grind: Are there any quadruple-A MMOs?

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Ubisoft made headlines earlier this week for claiming to investors that the high pricetag for Skull & Bones was justified because it's a vast,...

The Daily Grind: Do any old MMORPGs provoke trauma for you?

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A while back I fell down a rabbit hole digging into Blade and Soul NEO Classic (trying to figure out whether the NEO was...

The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you think shouldn’t be classified as an MMORPG?

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We have the MMORPG subreddit to thank for this morning's Daily Grind: At the beginning of January, some bright spark over there posted a...

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