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SWTOR’s Rishi stronghold and PvP tweaks are live today with the 5.9.2 update
Multiple goodies are coming to Star Wars The Old Republic today via its previously delayed but now launching 5.9.2 update. The headliner content is...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘hardcore’ gaming?
Quantic Foundry's latest report from its gamer motivation study is well worth your time to read, but for this morning's Daily Grind, I want...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had an MMORPG-related dream?
A real dream, not just a dream to top the raid leaderboard.
MOP reader CamelotCrusade submitted today's whimsical Daily Grind topic. "The other night I...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite bragging rights reward in an MMO?
The title I display most often in Final Fantasy XIV is "Sidestepper." It's not a flashy title, but it's a bragging rights reward because...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are the best for occasional play?
As a longtime fan of MMOs, I struggle with one serious factor when it comes to playing them: time. It's not just finding time...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you went sightseeing in an MMORPG?
Are you into stopping and smelling the flowers, literally or figuratively?
I started thinking a bit about this thanks to a tweet ZeniMax sent out...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run a ‘solo’ guild in an MMO?
When housing first arrived in Final Fantasy XIV, a lot of people wanted personal houses but couldn't yet get them. So they did the...
The Daily Grind: Is Fallout 76 an MMO?
We all know that the definition of "MMORPG" and "MMO" have been stretched, twisted, and interpreted in vastly different ways over the years based...
The Daily Grind: Are you actually using Steam’s new chat and group features?
Last week, Steam pushed live the changes to its social features it first announced back in June. As we wrote at the time, its...
The Daily Grind: Do you care more about an MMORPG’s playerbase or revenue?
SuperData put out a couple of reports and analyses last week that suggest Fortnite is "cannibalizing" other games, specifically in terms of revenue and...
The Daily Grind: What would you do if you could reboot any live MMO?
It's kind of crazy to me that Final Fantasy XIV is not only still running but is successful, has a thriving population and a...
The Daily Grind: Do you tilt toward sci-fi or fantasy in your MMOs?
I always found it weird that bookstores always shoved science fiction and fantasy subgenres together, kind of like a "here's a general section for...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about themed MMORPG guilds?
Kotaku did a recent piece on "girls only" Overwatch groups that got me thinking about themed guilds. (As it turned out, the writer found...
The Daily Grind: Whom should pre-expansion MMO events target?
There are lots of things I'm not crazy about when it comes to the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth pre-patch event, but one...
The Daily Grind: Rank the top three housing MMOs ever made
WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II.
If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG boasts the best space gameplay?
Over the past week or so, I've been tinkering with Star Wars Galaxies Legends, an NGE emulator for SWG that's actually pretty polished and...
The Daily Grind: Do you still have ‘passion’ for MMORPGs?
Over the weekend I saw an interesting Twitter discussion about how much game-playing game-designers actually need to do, and whether those passions are even...
The Daily Grind: Are you less inclined to enjoy an MMO in beta testing?
Writing is not a matter of having no bias, it's a matter of being aware of your bias and attempting to correct for it....
The Daily Grind: Which expansion helped out an MMO the most?
We have talked a lot about great and terrible MMO expansions in the past, but most often, we approach such conversations from our personal...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite non-awful gaming subreddit?
I want to flip the tables on the whole toxicity/Reddit thing a bit. Earlier this week, we talked about some of the problems Reddit...
