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]
the daily grind
The Daily Grind: Has an MMO ever been ruined for you by the community?
It's funny, but I see many more people listing a game's community as a bright side rather than a drawback. You would think it'd...
The Daily Grind: Do action-RPGs make for good MMO material?
The second it was announced, Torchlight Frontiers skyrocketed to the top of my interest. I really wasn't expecting an MMO out of this franchise...
The Daily Grind: How important are minimaps to your MMORPG experience?
MMO minimaps became the topic of a weird debate this week, as multiple sites appeared to have misunderstood a Belgian magazine's interpretation of the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite piece of MMO music?
Lately I can't stop listening to one of the newest pieces of music added to Final Fantasy XIV. A Land Long Dead is at...
The Daily Grind: How do you set up your MMO user interface?
The other day I logged into Star Wars: The Old Republic for the first time in a while, and I once again felt jarred...
The Daily Grind: What’s the goofiest currency in all of MMO land?
So then, MMOs and online games. We've got gems, crystals, shards, marks, tickets, tomes, lumps, keys, tokens, commendations, shells, scraps, favors, coins, orders, fragments,...
The Daily Grind: What online game template will be the next to take off?
Like many of you, I remember the rise of MMOs when it was actually happening. I remember when shooters were king too. And I...
The Daily Grind: What MMO seasonal event is most in need of an update?
We have started the prime Halloween season, as it is now October. Needless to say, this means Halloween events aplenty, as is good and...
The Daily Grind: What MMO plans do you have for the fall?
With the snap of fall and change of the leaves, the season has taken a change as we go into the last four months...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs too optimistic?
I don't mean optimistic in terms of their existential nature, as to whether they have a future, that sort of thing. I mean in...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of video content for MMO information?
Just yesterday, I noticed that Crowfall had another video Q&A out. (By which I mean it crossed our metaphorical desks as news, of course.)...
The Daily Grind: What MMO did you vow to never return to… but then you did?
Don't be bashful about it. We have all been there. We have all made grand pronouncements of being done with an MMORPG, of rage-quitting...
The Daily Grind: What MMO still needs legacy servers?
2018 has seemed like the year of the legacy/vanilla MMO server, thanks to not just World of Warcraft but RIFT and Age of Conan...
The Daily Grind: What abandoned content in your favortite MMO do you want to see return?
I miss Guild Wars 2's dungeons.
I was trawling Reddit the other day when I saw someone raise a half-hearted complaint about the fact that...
The Daily Grind: Do you skip periods of MMOs you play?
I've seen the argument put forth several times over the past month or so about World of Warcraft players just... skipping the current expansion....
The Daily Grind: What do you want out of an MMO guild?
We all come to guilds in different ways. Sometimes we seek them out specifically, sometimes we go through a rigorous application process, and sometimes...
The Daily Grind: What race or species have you never seen in an MMORPG?
A week or so ago, Justin penned a popular Daily Grind about the non-humanoid races/species that always seem to be relegated to "minority status"...
The Daily Grind: Are you excited with the World of Warcraft Classic playable demo announcement?
There's a lot of interesting stuff to unpack about the World of Warcraft Classic announcement from yesterday. It's been a project that we haven't...
The Daily Grind: Do you have an MMO gaming schedule?
When it comes to trying to figure out how to juggle multiple MMORPGs, I've experimented with many approaches. I've gone with the "whatever I...
The Daily Grind: What if World of Warcraft had never happened?
Yesterday, in the comments of our Daily Grind about nice things we can say about games we don't like, MOP commenter Squid posted a...
