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The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best dungeon crawling experiences?
Dungeons are deeply on my mind as of late, mostly because I've been missing doing them in MMORPGs. It's odd: In particular MMOs, I...
The Daily Grind: Do you swear by any urban legends in MMORPGs?
When I first began playing Ultima Online as a newbie way back at launch, I remember watching everyone around me summoning ham with the Create...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst tech annoyance in MMORPGs?
Massively OP reader Minimalistway recently wrote to us with a rant about how bizarrely hard it is to quit MMORPGs and delete your account....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best launcher?
Launchers! They're stupid, they're boring, they exist primarily as a gateway between you (the player) and what you actually want to do (play an...
The Daily Grind: What’s the right length for an MMO event?
Is it just me, or is the latest fad among MMORPGs to stage incredibly brief in-game events? Like blink -- or have a 12-hour...
The Daily Grind: Are you willing to reroll for Secret World Legends?
"I can't help but think that I'd rather see a single-player adaptation of The Secret World than to lose it forever if Funcom truly...
The Daily Grind: How much does optimization affect your MMO play?
When I feel like lying to myself, I tell myself that I don't care about optimizing my characters in MMOs. I even sometimes convince...
The Daily Grind: What makes an MMO community toxic?
I sincerely do not envy the task of MMO studios and community managers when it comes to wrangling their crowd of diverse, fickle, and...
The Daily Grind: How much of your MMORPG play amounts to ‘work’?
The latest SMBC comic is going to have my fellow MMO fans nodding enthusiastically: In response to the first man, who says we need to...
The Daily Grind: Which multiplayer survival sandbox is the most like an MMORPG?
A week or so ago, I took an ARK: Survival Evolved post out of our newsroom to write up, expecting something mundane. I'm an...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO zone would be the worst place to live in?
There are parts of every MMO that look lovely, like the sort of place you'd love to live. But that's definitely minority. I mean,...
The Daily Grind: Was The Sims Online a good idea done badly?
As a gamer, I have many regrets that certain projects never came to fruition or the ones that did ended up not being quite...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most painful bug you’ve ever encountered in an MMORPG?
I've been playing a bit of Ultima Online lately, and the other night as I was working on my skills, I remembered a horrible...
The Daily Grind: What seemingly unrelated things make you want to return to old MMOs?
Lately, I've been feeling a very explainable pull back to Final Fantasy XI. It's easy to explain because, well, it's the game's 15th anniversary...
The Daily Grind: What do you want out of a space sim MMO?
Watching the whole development and phenomenon of Star Citizen from a slightly detached perspective, I've often wondered (as I'm sure you have) what this...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs would you include among the greatest RPGs of all time?
Massively OP reader Francois recently pointed us to IGN's Top 100 RPGs of All Time, which we thought was worth a nod since unlike...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you find too daunting to return to?
Last week, Blizzard Watch published a post discussing the problem with grinding -- but maybe not the problem you're thinking. Matt Rossi explained that he...
The Daily Grind: Do you think useful MMO tools get misused by the community?
DPS meters, in theory, are a really great tool for players who want to push the envelope in content. That is, however, just in...
The Daily Grind: What would you like to see done with MMO pets?
A little while ago, I was amused by a story about how a sort-of pet for World of Warcraft's sort-of housing was able to...
The Daily Grind: Do you seek out MMORPG leaks?
Over the past couple of months, the MMORPG community has worked its way through massive leaks of top-secret info: first for Elder Scrolls Online's...