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: Where are the spots you most identify with in MMOs?
It's going to be most relevant next week, but honestly I'm not even a little bit sad at the thought of Darnassus burning in...
The Daily Grind: How should MMO studios handle game reboots?
Over the past several years, we have witnessed several MMOs being rebooted and relaunched, including Final Fantasy XIV, Secret World Legends, and, most recently,...
The Daily Grind: How can we solve Reddit’s gaming ‘tragedy of the commons’ problem?
In dealing with the ArenaNet fallout over the last couple of weeks, I started giving serious thought to the Reddit problem in gaming, and...
The Daily Grind: Which online game has suffered the most from its own hype?
I've still got hype on the brain. We've talked about the length of hype cycles and under-hyped MMOs. Now I want to talk about...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been a creative fan for an MMO?
It will never cease to amaze me how artists for MMOs can come up with costumes that require no actual adherence to physical laws...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO system or feature is needlessly complex?
Probably one of my greatest and ongoing criticisms of the MMORPG genre is how developers populate these games with systems that are often cumbersome,...
The Daily Grind: What exactly defines an ‘indie’ MMORPG studio?
Earlier this week, I happened to see a mainstream website refer to ArtCraft as an indie studio, and it jolted me. ArtCraft, as anybody...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would benefit from a character creator upgrade the most?
It's a pity that World of Warcraft hasn't really updated its character creation in a long time, because the game direly needs it. The...
The Daily Grind: Has flying hurt or helped MMORPGs?
Not every MMO has flying, and those that do tend to add it post-launch as a major selling point for an expansion or patch....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most complex character development?
Over the weekend, I was reading a makeup subreddit (don't judge me - I swear there is a gaming point to this) and the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG deserves way more hype than it gets?
According to Friday's Daily Grind on hype cycles, a lot of folks think they begin way too early for most games. But what about...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst fit for a seasonal event for an MMO?
Let's be real here, I am a sucker for Halloween. It's my favorite holiday, so you would think I was over the moon about...
The Daily Grind: What is the most impractical MMO mount ever devised?
There seems to be a bizarre competition going on between MMORPG developers to one-up each other's games with progressively impractical mounts. I guess when...
The Daily Grind: How early should an MMORPG’s hype cycle begin?
GIbiz put out an interesting piece this week looking 10 years into the past to see where the buzz was in the game industry...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you bought and barely played?
There was a time when any new MMO was only open to you if you bought it, and that made for an interesting situation....
The Daily Grind: What MMO is theoretically perfect but fails to click with you?
Let's talk about Final Fantasy XIV for a minute. This game really frustrates me because, on paper, it has so much of what I'm...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG skill system that avoids the ‘illusion of choice’?
Over the weekend, my husband and I were chatting about playing on a Star Wars Galaxies emulator again, probably the Legends one that people...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best user interface?
In the comments of my last Daily Grind about Star Wars Galaxies, there erupted a lively debate about the game's user interface in the...
The Daily Grind: Are MMO collector’s editions worth it?
The allure of the collector's edition has always been a strange one. I remember when it started, of course, when you could get the...
The Daily Grind: Which in-development MMOs are you hoping to hear more about?
One of the downsides of only following the gaming news cycle is that if there isn't news, you're not really paying attention to a...
