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the daily grind
The Daily Grind: When have you paid too much for an MMO?
I think if you're a certain age or remember the early days of MMOs, you probably have a baseline for how much they should...
The Daily Grind: How much do you stress yourself out in group content in an MMORPG?
In basically any MMORPG, nobody actually cares about your performance in most group content. Unless you are pushing for progression - in which case...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the best combat sound design?
Way back when I first dipped into MMOs with Anarchy Online, I remember being vastly underwhelmed by the lackluster sound design of that game's...
The Daily Grind: How many people do you have on ignore in your core MMORPG?
I have mentioned in a few places now that the new Glamdring server in Lord of the Rings Online is fairly dreadful in terms...
The Daily Grind: Are you returning to Guild Wars 1 for the anniversary bash?
I know several MMO gamers - including some of our own writers! - who have been enticed to pick up Classic Guild Wars this...
The Daily Grind: Are MMO festivals a relief valve from too-serious content?
The other day I was listening to an SSG video that promoted the viewpoint that MMO festivals actually function as a "relief valve" from...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG zone has the most notorious reputation?
I haven't played World of Warcraft in a good long while now, but back in the long long ago, all the best trashtalk went...
The Daily Grind: What are the most challenging upgrade systems in MMORPGs?
The thing I love about City of Heroes is that it scales remarkably well. If I want to just play the game or a...
The Daily Grind: What’s your weird quirk for keybindings in MMOs?
I don't like using Control or Alt for my extra action bars in MMOs, and I really hate that that's the default. Usually one...
The Daily Grind: Which two MMORPGs pair well together?
I'm no foodie -- you go to MOP's Chris for that -- but even I understand the concept of "pairing." Some foods and drinks...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO posts the best patch notes in the business?
Back in February, Justin and I discussed No Man's Sky on the MOP podcast, and I joked that I love to be the staffer...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best fight music?
Lots of MMOs have combat. Not all of them, but in the vast majority of online games, you can spend a lot of time...
The Daily Grind: Where in the game do you wish your MMO had player housing?
Assuming that your MMO does offer player housing, it's not always a given that it's going to let you plop down a home in...
The Daily Grind: What makes you furious in MMOs?
Last week, Lord of the Rings Online finally opened up its housing system on the new 64-bit servers, and after two days of listening...
The Daily Grind: What’s a classic MMO problem you wish the genre had solved a different way?
A while back, I was reading a thread on Reddit when a player managed to sum up nearly three decades of the push-pull of...
The Daily Grind: What expansion launch day still generates your fondest memories?
You might be surprised to learn this, but not only does my fondest expansion launch day memory not relate to an expansion that has...
The Daily Grind: What small thing brings you great joy in your MMO?
Sometimes it really is the small thing that can bring you an absurd amount of joy or contentment. It just has to hit you,...
The Daily Grind: How often do you do blind runs of new MMORPG content?
Last year, in response to a Daily Grind question about MMO new-content traditions, an MOP reader named Kelly said her tradition was to do...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is your most frequent ‘hop’ destination?
As a general rule, I tend to be committed to the MMOs I'm playing. When I hop in one, I am there for a...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO expansion that you never, ever want to play again?
Not every MMORPG expansion can be a winner, of course, but it does seem that there tends to be one or two that becomes...
