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The Daily Grind: Are special MMO servers worth a subscription?
With all of the special legacy and progression servers being started up across the MMORPG genre, I've noticed that there's an interesting factor that...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most egregious example of a reskinned MMO?
Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity penned a great piece last week discussing the practice of skinning as it pertains to casino games and mobile...
The Daily Grind: What one piece of advice would you give to new MMO players in 2018?
Over the weekend, CCP tweeted out a fun poll asking EVE Online players what advice they'd like to deliver to newbies: Insure your ship,...
The Daily Grind: Do you have authenticators for your MMO accounts?
It never seemed to me like I had any need of an authenticator for World of Warcraft... until my wife's account got taken. It...
The Daily Grind: What MMO festival reward do you use year-round?
MMORPG holidays are funny events because while we kill ourselves to get thematic costumes, toys, mounts, and other goodies, the second the event is...
The Daily Grind: Are you hostile to mobile MMORPGs?
Happy Friday. Let's talk mobile. MMORPG players in particular run along a certain demographic that does not align well with mobile. Oh, sure, we have...
The Daily Grind: What MMO offers players the best tutorials?
Let's face it, MMOs are pretty bad at teaching players about what they're supposed to do. I can't recall the last time I needed...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most iconic MMORPG moment or accomplishment in your memory?
Over the weekend, my husband and I decided to let our son watch bits and pieces of Fellowship of the Ring. My kid is...
The Daily Grind: What makes a game feel like an MMO to you?
Bethesda is at it again. Years after its subsidiary bent itself over backwards to protest that Elder Scrolls Online wasn't an MMO, the gaming...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever played a WoW expansion?
During BlizzCon this weekend, Eliot and I were chatting about an article series he's working on different periods in MMORPG history. I mentioned 2009...
The Daily Grind: What wildly implausible settings would you like for an MMO?
If you had told me before it happened that we would get an MMO based on the works of Tad Williams, I wouldn't have...
The Daily Grind: What makes for a satisfying MMO dungeon crawl?
When I cast my mind back to my childhood, the word "RPG dungeon" conjured up very specific images of being trapped far underground with...
The Daily Grind: Do you even have any expectations left for BlizzCon?
So. Today's the first day of BlizzCon. Normally, we take the opportunity to ask our community about their expectations and predictions for BlizzCon. But,...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever felt personally let down by an MMO?
MMOs are not my life. My interaction with them starts and stops with me as a player and a journalist. I evaluate them, I...
Perfect Ten: Compliments to MMOs I don’t play
Back in September, Bree posed a Daily Grind question that I thought was genuinely intriguing. You know, for once. Just kidding, Bree! She asked...
The Daily Grind: If you had one more day in a closed MMO, what would you do?
Sometimes I get accused of prodding old wounds when it comes to discussing closed MMORPGs. I'm not out to make people feel bad; it's...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most important example of death spiral development in MMOs?
A couple of weeks ago, Justin reminded me of a Guild Wars 2 panel from many years back where ArenaNet addressed Charr armor clipping.
"A Charr...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs should be preserved in the Video Game Museum?
In returning to the video game preservation debate this week following the DMCA exceptions granted to museums and archivists allowing them to archive online...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has frustrated you the most with trading restrictions?
There's a good reason why the rewards for the Doman Reconstruction in Final Fantasy XIV cannot be directly traded; specifically, it's so that players...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO character title do you proudly wear?
I'm not a title guy in MMOs. I understand that they're a small outlet for personal expression and something else to chase, but when...
