No, it’s not a slow news day; it’s just The Daily Grind, a long-running morning feature in which the Massively Overpowered writers pose gaming-related questions to the MMORPG community. [Follow this feature’s RSS feed]
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The Daily Grind: Do you want to go back and see old content in MMOs?
Bree and I were having a conversation about video games the other day, which is not unusual. (We kibbitz a lot about video games;...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever feel like you’re outside the wall of an MMO fandom?
It's a disquieting feeling to be around a bunch of people who are "in the know" on a trend or fandom but you're not....
The Daily Grind: Do any MMOs outrank single-player games on your favorites list?
It's no surprise that Amazon's Fallout show has brought back interest in the series. Even if something based on a game is bad, people get...
The Daily Grind: Is there a popular MMORPG you’ve still never played?
I've been playing MMORPGs so long that it's a rare title that I've never tried at all. There are tons of MMOs I've at...
The Daily Grind: Are there any small indie MMO projects you’re cheering on?
If making an MMORPG in today's climate is a risky proposition, it must be doubly so for small outfits with limited resources and hype....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs are more about PvE than PvM?
We don't talk about PvM vs. PvE all that much in the MMORPG genre, but we should. Maybe we like a PvE vs. PvP...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best desert biome in MMOs?
Until I lived in one for a few years in real life, I was not a big fan of the desert - anywhere. Cue...
The Daily Grind: How normal are you about your MMO characters?
I like to joke to people who know me in-game that I am extremely normal about my character in Final Fantasy XIV. But there...
The Daily Grind: Are you excited for Tarisland to release?
Our recent story about Tarisland having its release date currently sitting somewhere in the nebulous Shadow Zone reminded me that the game existed, which...
The Daily Grind: What is the ‘gold standard’ example of MMORPGs?
Earlier this year, a poster on the MMORPG subreddit posted a controversial take: While admitting that he hadn't actually played EVE Online in a...
World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix speed-leveling event is live this afternoon
As we alluded to in this morning's Daily Grind, today is the day for World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria remix hullabaloo, so if...
The Daily Grind: What are your plans for World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix?
I confess that I've gone from being a little taken aback at the idea of World of Warcraft's Pandaria Remix to a huge fan...
The Daily Grind: Do you still have any launch day characters in your MMOs?
One of the reasons that I always like going back to Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's the only MMO that I...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for playing on a potato?
I saw a thread on the MMORPG subreddit a while back asking about MMOs that function well on low-end machines, and I was actually...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO companies care about game preservation?
With game preservation back in the news thanks to Ubisoft's The Crew criming and the Stop Killing Games initiative, I thought it would be...
The Daily Grind: Has a survival sandbox ever really grabbed your attention?
Survival sandboxes are not MMORPGs, but they are online games, and so they occupy an odd middle space insofar as many of them feature...
The Daily Grind: Will Dune Awakening miss the popularity boost from the movies?
Timing, as they say, is everything -- and time doesn't seem to be on Dune Awakening's side, at least if Funcom wanted to get...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect...
The Daily Grind: What animal do you want to see in more MMOs?
Pangolins are the weirdest animals that sound like fantasy creatures except they're real animals in the real world. We need more of them in...
The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about SWTOR’s future?
We are in an interesting season with Star Wars: The Old Republic -- and no, I'm not talking about a PvP or Galactic Conquest...
