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The Daily Grind: What monster race would you like to see playable in your MMO?
It's not a shocking revelation on my part to say that it takes a lot for me to work up the interest to play...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best inventory system?
Video game packrats, obsessive compulsives, and that one guildie of mine whose MMO inventory literally has everything he's ever looted: Today's Daily Grind is...
The Daily Grind: How do you define good play in an MMO?
One of the buzzwords of the modern MMO space is games promising to reward player skill rather than gear. I understand the argument being...
The Daily Grind: How would you like choice and consequence to play out in MMOs?
One of the reasons that I grieve the premature loss of Ultima X Odyssey was that the devs had some truly intriguing ideas of...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs have special areas for paying players?
I was poking around in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop this weekend when I realized that ArenaNet is selling teleports to Noble's Folly....
The Daily Grind: How do you decide when MMORPG class revisions have gone too far?
A bunch of my guildies flocked back to World of Warcraft during its pre-Legion festivities. One of them mentioned in passing that he'd been...
The Daily Grind: Has a trailer ever convinced you to give an MMO a shot?
Companies pay a lot of money to make good trailers. We all know this. The latest World of Warcraft intro cinematic didn't cost $3.50...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most memorable MMO fight scene?
We've all been in so many fights in MMOs that they mostly blend together in a memory stew of numbers, phases, buffs, debuffs, animations,...
The Daily Grind: Do you like to have physical MMO boxes?
I have a physical box for every single World of Warcraft expansion, but I might not for Legion. When faced with the choice between...
The Daily Grind: Who’s the most relatable NPC in an MMORPG?
Multiple commenters in Tina's recent Guild Wars 2 column homed in on the character Taimi as being the glue that holds the game's latest...
The Daily Grind: Which older MMO still looks really pretty?
I've been spending more time in RIFT lately due to the expansion announcement, and an observation that's crossed my mind more than once is...
The Daily Grind: What was the biggest F2P ‘save’ in MMORPG history?
Jess Conditt had a piece on Engadget last week that caught my eye because it's a story you don't hear much anymore: Free-to-play saved...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see more true mysteries in MMORPGs?
Last week, we wrote about Kharsek, the Tibia player who was pushing level 999... and almost able to enter a special door marked for...
The Daily Grind: Do you care about MMO lore?
Lore is a big deal to me when I'm playing an MMO. For all the issues I have with Guild Wars 2, it genuinely...
The Daily Grind: Do you duel other players in MMOs?
The other day I was loading up Shroud of the Avatar, and whilst checking out its options, I selected "auto-decline duels" so fast that...
The Daily Grind: How much does your MMORPG character’s appearance matter to your gameplay?
I like to think of myself as the kind of person who doesn't care all that much about aesthetics as long as a game...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO city?
No matter the game, you have cities to deal with. Admittedly, they take unusual forms in some games; Star Trek Online and EVE Online...
The Daily Grind: What MMO would have devastated you if it had never released?
Here on the Daily Grind we've probably asked a dozen or so times which never-released MMO would you have loved to play. So let's...
The Daily Grind: How visible should your achievements be inside an MMORPG?
Last week, the Massively OP staff were chit-chatting about Guild Wars 2's Out of the Shadows when I mentioned that I loathe the masteries...
The Daily Grind: When did you think an MMO sucked, only to change your mind once you played it?
A boardgame YouTuber I follow said something in his last video that I thought applied so beautifully to everything -- including MMORPGs. Chaz Marler has...
