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The Daily Grind: What does the MMORPG genre offer younger players?
Earlier this year, a Redditor on the MMORPG sub pondered whether young folks play MMORPGs -- not kids, mind you, but teens, high schoolers...
Leaderboard: How much time do you spend playing MMOs relative to non-MMOs?
Some of the responses to this morning's Daily Grind made me wonder about the balance of playtime MMO players maintain. See what I just...
The Daily Grind: Did you buy any MMOs during the Steam sale?
Steam's big summer sale is over today -- about five hours from the time this post goes live, smack in the middle of 4th-of-July...
The Daily Grind: What do you collect in MMOs?
At its heart, every single MMO is a game about collecting things. Most games have a number of very obvious things to collect; collect...
The Daily Grind: Does your character have a backstory?
One thing that greatly bugs me about MMORPG character creation is how little thought that these games give into providing any sort of backstory...
The Daily Grind: How does your guild decide which MMOs to play?
Earlier this week, one of the most well-known multigame guilds in the MMOspace, Gaiscioch Clan, published an article by Benjamin "Foghladha" Foley discussing just...
The Daily Grind: How well do you think you represent your main MMO’s average player?
One of the things that I remind myself of on a regular basis is that I am not the average player in an MMO....
The Daily Grind: What have you never done in your MMO?
Sometimes we define our characters by what they we have done and accomplished with them. We've leveled them to the cap. We've gone on...
The Daily Grind: Do you like ‘seasonal challenge’ content in MMORPGs?
On this week's Massively OP podcast -- out yesterday evening for our $5+ Patreon backers and out later this afternoon for everybody else --...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever learned about major world news while playing an MMORPG?
Last week when news of Brexit took over the western world, a Star Citizen Redditor made a comment about the weirdness of learning that...
The Daily Grind: Is launching a modern MMO without a group finder a bad idea?
The developers of Saga of Lucimia have declared that they do not want a group finder in their game, because shouting and manually forming...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has killed you the most?
There's a small story behind that screenshot up there. I was playing Star Trek Online, and during a boss fight I was stricken by...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest leveling grind in an MMORPG?
I really, really do not like long leveling grinds.
Let me rephrase. I don't mind long leveling paths where the levels don't actually mean much in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most pointless expense you’ve inflicted upon yourself in an MMO?
At one point, I picked a bad talent for a character in World of Warcraft, back in the days of talent trees. Annoyed, I...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best piratey MMO?
Arrr, today be a good day to walk the plank o' public opinion and ask ye which is the best piratey MMORPG!
We'll leave the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best thief class in an MMORPG?
Back in April, I wrote a Daily Grind about MMORPG classes we hate to play, and rogues and thieves topped my list. But I...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO deserves a movie next?
Now that the Warcraft movie is out and about and apparently its handlers are contemplating sequels, I have a burning question for you: Which MMO would...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an MMO that forced you play a non-human race?
In pretty much any MMO, you have two options when it comes to races. The first is a situation wherein there are several different...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs do more with environmental effects?
I don't want to push the "IMMERSION" button too hard with this statement, but sometimes mine is bent a little too far when I...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a Mass Effect MMO?
E3 news about Mass Effect: Andromeda has got me hyped for the series all over again. The single-protagonist (or antagonist, depending) storyline that's more...
