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: Is zone-wide chat a good thing for MMOs?
The first MMO I ever played was Final Fantasy XI, which meant that I got used to the idea of having no zone-wide chat....
The Daily Grind: What MMO celebration do you never miss?
The first year that any MMORPG that I'm playing launches a new festival or holiday, I'm usually all over it. Sometimes I get too...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG vet reward you’ve ever gotten?
CCP Games rolled out a pretty sweet veteran reward for EVE Online vets this week ahead of the game's anniversary: Everybody who's been playing...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite non-combat ability in an MMO?
Combat abilities in MMOs are big, flashy, and usually leave a mangled corpse. That's why they're there. But sometimes you wind up with non-combat...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a new Guild Wars 1 expansion?
With all of the talk and revival of interest in classic Guild Wars, it's certainly been a great time to celebrate this beloved MMO...
The Daily Grind: Do you start over in MMOs when your character or account is maxed out?
Over the last year or so, my six-year-old has been making his way through LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga on our old PS3....
The Daily Grind: Do you feel pressure to play MMOs for daily bonuses or experience events?
On Wednesdays, we farm gems.
In Trove, that is. That's because ever since Trion revamped the daily login system, players get a daily bonus for...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever tried to start fresh in a familiar MMO?
I have, on three occasions, tried to start Final Fantasy XI completely fresh. Ironically, this time it's working out very well; the past two...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO story you like to tell?
MMORPGs are story machines. I don't just mean that they're games in which the writers tell you a bunch of tales, although that is...
The Daily Grind: What are some useful alternatives to the term ‘pay-to-win’?
Deep into the Relay article on whether Star Citizen is pay-to-win that we covered a while back, the author, Commander Llama, said something I...
The Daily Grind: Do you have your profanity filter on in MMOs?
You may not realize this from reading what I write on this site, but I curse a lot in real life. It's not appropriate...
The Daily Grind: What kind of superhero do you want to make in an MMO?
While City of Heroes is long gone, you can't keep a good cape down. With a couple of superhero MMORPGs out on the market...
The Daily Grind: How important is person-to-person trading in an MMORPG?
Earlier in May, Neowiz clarified that the western version of Bless Online, like Black Desert, would eschew player-to-player trading, sticking instead to just an...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time somebody recommended an MMO you actually wound up liking?
Across the MMORPG universe, gamers are always asking, what should I play? It's in our comments, on Reddit, in every guild and global chat...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best in-game cosmetic options?
With the changes made in Legion, World of Warcraft wound up with a pretty great system for cosmetic outfits. Unfortunately, it also has some...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best mount selection?
Lately my attention has been arrested by all of the news coming out about Battle for Azeroth's mounts. I know it's totally dorky, but...
Leaderboard: How much time should you put in to become a great player in the typical MMO?
Earlier this week, GIbiz put out a piece on the Shanghai Dragons, the Overwatch League e-sports team representing China. In a letter to fans,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG would you want to ‘live’ in if you had to live there forever?
MOP reader Oleg suggested today's Daily Grind in the bowels of the mystified comments under our piece on Entropia Universe on Wednesday. In a...
The Daily Grind: What was your first ‘wow’ moment in an MMO?
Your first MMO tends to stick in your mind in a certain way. The first time you realize that you're in a game with...
The Daily Grind: What’s your underdog MMO?
It's easy to take pot shots at Champions Online these days, what with Cryptic hyping up its duration after years of stagnant development. But...
