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The Daily Grind: How do you like to compete in MMOs?
Do you thrive on competition? Is the only time that you truly feel alive is when you're pitting your wit and skill against another...
The Daily Grind: Is Twitch chat just MMO general chat writ large?
Last week, an Indiana University Bloomington team released its analysis of over a billion comments made on Twitch over a two-month period in 2014...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most bothersome part of MMORPG monetization?
A recent GIbiz interview on Ubisoft's monetization reveals that studios, at least the type making online shooters, have come full circle again to the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most frustrating streak of bad luck you’ve had in an MMO?
There are two things I'd really like in World of Warcraft's most recent expansion, and since both of them are entirely random, I'm flat...
The Daily Grind: What MMO music would you never turn off?
Even though I'm a huge fan of MMORPG soundtracks (shameless plugs for Battle Bards and Jukebox Heroes go here), I get that music can...
The Daily Grind: Are you a consumables hoarder in MMORPGs?
This weekend of all weekends, it only seems right to ask you about hoarding, although I don't mean just getting stuff to have it...
The Daily Grind: Do you get extra MMO time during the holidays?
Today begins the dread stretch of time known in the United States as the holidays, a period of frenzied consumerism marked with a lot...
The Daily Grind: What awards would you give to MMOs?
With December right around the corner, the Massively OP staff is hard at work prepping some awesome end-of-the-year content for you, including our annual...
The Daily Grind: What’s the friendliest PvP encounter you’ve ever had in an MMORPG?
Not long ago, my little family detoured from our weekend road trip to have lunch with MOP's Eliot and his wife. Video games were...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you completely changed your main in an MMO?
There's never really a reason to completely swap mains in Final Fantasy XIV unless you really, really want to have another character. You're never...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of your MMORPG’s public test realms?
The patch server. The PTR. The PTS. Whatever your MMORPG calls it, it's probably got one: some sort of publicly accessible server that gets the...
The Daily Grind: Do you hope that MMOs based on popular franchises return?
Probably what is most upsetting about the current trend of MMORPG development is that most studios seem to have completely abandoned molding online roleplaying...
The Daily Grind: Are you going back to RIFT for Starfall Prophecy?
After a briefly delayed beta event last month, RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion launched this week. RIFT is Trion Worlds' crown jewel, and this third expansion...
The Daily Grind: How would you end your favorite MMO?
So here's the bad news: Your favorite MMO is going to shut down in the future. You know exactly when it's going to happen,...
The Daily Grind: Are you biased against eastern MMOs?
In keeping loose tabs on responses to various games in the comments section here on Massively OP, I do see some remarks that seem...
EVE Online is officially free-to-play today with Ascension
"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!"Â That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...
The Daily Grind: Are you going back to EVE Online today?
EVE Online's Ascension expansion launches today, dropping the subscription paywall that's barricaded the game for well over a decade and further reducing the small...
The Daily Grind: How much do ‘day one’ sales numbers matter to MMORPGs?
GamesIndustry.biz has an intriguing piece out this week on the industry's obsession with "day one" and "week one" -- that period AAA game studios...
MMO Week in Review: Black Desert’s big merge (November 13, 2016)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
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The Daily Grind: What MMO do you see yourself playing in half a year?
The future is an undiscovered country. We can make guesses and predictions, but we never know just how things are going to shake out....