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The Daily Grind: Whom should pre-expansion MMO events target?
There are lots of things I'm not crazy about when it comes to the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth pre-patch event, but one...
The Daily Grind: Rank the top three housing MMOs ever made
WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II.
If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG boasts the best space gameplay?
Over the past week or so, I've been tinkering with Star Wars Galaxies Legends, an NGE emulator for SWG that's actually pretty polished and...
The Daily Grind: Do you still have ‘passion’ for MMORPGs?
Over the weekend I saw an interesting Twitter discussion about how much game-playing game-designers actually need to do, and whether those passions are even...
The Daily Grind: Are you less inclined to enjoy an MMO in beta testing?
Writing is not a matter of having no bias, it's a matter of being aware of your bias and attempting to correct for it....
The Daily Grind: Which expansion helped out an MMO the most?
We have talked a lot about great and terrible MMO expansions in the past, but most often, we approach such conversations from our personal...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite non-awful gaming subreddit?
I want to flip the tables on the whole toxicity/Reddit thing a bit. Earlier this week, we talked about some of the problems Reddit...
The Daily Grind: Where are the spots you most identify with in MMOs?
It's going to be most relevant next week, but honestly I'm not even a little bit sad at the thought of Darnassus burning in...
The Daily Grind: How should MMO studios handle game reboots?
Over the past several years, we have witnessed several MMOs being rebooted and relaunched, including Final Fantasy XIV, Secret World Legends, and, most recently,...
The Daily Grind: How can we solve Reddit’s gaming ‘tragedy of the commons’ problem?
In dealing with the ArenaNet fallout over the last couple of weeks, I started giving serious thought to the Reddit problem in gaming, and...
The Daily Grind: Which online game has suffered the most from its own hype?
I've still got hype on the brain. We've talked about the length of hype cycles and under-hyped MMOs. Now I want to talk about...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been a creative fan for an MMO?
It will never cease to amaze me how artists for MMOs can come up with costumes that require no actual adherence to physical laws...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO system or feature is needlessly complex?
Probably one of my greatest and ongoing criticisms of the MMORPG genre is how developers populate these games with systems that are often cumbersome,...
The Daily Grind: What exactly defines an ‘indie’ MMORPG studio?
Earlier this week, I happened to see a mainstream website refer to ArtCraft as an indie studio, and it jolted me. ArtCraft, as anybody...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would benefit from a character creator upgrade the most?
It's a pity that World of Warcraft hasn't really updated its character creation in a long time, because the game direly needs it. The...
The Daily Grind: Has flying hurt or helped MMORPGs?
Not every MMO has flying, and those that do tend to add it post-launch as a major selling point for an expansion or patch....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most complex character development?
Over the weekend, I was reading a makeup subreddit (don't judge me - I swear there is a gaming point to this) and the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG deserves way more hype than it gets?
According to Friday's Daily Grind on hype cycles, a lot of folks think they begin way too early for most games. But what about...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst fit for a seasonal event for an MMO?
Let's be real here, I am a sucker for Halloween. It's my favorite holiday, so you would think I was over the moon about...
The Daily Grind: What is the most impractical MMO mount ever devised?
There seems to be a bizarre competition going on between MMORPG developers to one-up each other's games with progressively impractical mounts. I guess when...
