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: Do you feel an obligation to ‘finish’ the MMOs you start, even if it feels like ‘homework’?
A quote from legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro I saw on Twitter the other day is fast on the way to becoming my mantra. io9 transcribed...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite PvPvE MMO or experience?
It feels like I've been dealing with a bit of a theme lately: PvPvE games. PvPvE usually seems to mean simple PvE mechanics that...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run unauthorized MMO modifications?
In the earliest days of Final Fantasy XI, you couldn't alt-tab without crashing the game. Thus, the Windower program, a little add-on designed to...
The Daily Grind: Do you create completionist characters in MMOs?
Despite no longer being a young buck with scads of extra time on his hands, every so often I find myself foolishly rolling up...
The Daily Grind: Should running multiple MMO accounts be considered pay-to-win?
In the comments of a recent Daily Grind, MOP commenter Sally reminded me that a certain MOP writer who shall remain nameless (Larry!) had...
The Daily Grind: Is lack of text chat in an MMO a dealbreaker for you?
I wouldn't be able to play TERA on console. Not simply because I lack the console it's available on; that could be fixed by...
The Daily Grind: What made City of Heroes work so well?
Although City of Heroes is not coming back (I think we all need to come to terms with that), many successors are waiting in...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever walked away from an MMO over a studio’s treatment of its playerbase?
Star Wars Galaxies' NGE is one of the MMORPG genre's favorite bugbears: We pull it out as a warning, a label of doom, every...
The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMORPG to offer an optional sub that isn’t pay-to-win?
Last week, in the comments under the Bless optional subscription brouhaha article, I made an offhand comment that apparently got MOP commenter Sally's gears...
The Daily Grind: When have you felt loneliest in an MMO?
One of the things that no one discusses about MMOs is the way that they can be lonely. The presence of so many people...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMORPG characters primarily wear in-game armor or cash-shop cosmetics?
Take a look at your main character in your main MMORPG right now. What is he or she wearing? And did you get it...
The Daily Grind: Would you like MMORPGs to have seasonal passes?
Between the waves of MOBA and battle royale phenomenons, I've noticed an alternative monetization model that's apparently proven quite successful in these games. Seasonal...
The Daily Grind: What would (or already did) convince you to buy an MMO lockbox?
Look, we know, none of the people reading this right now like lockboxes. And, you know, for good reason. But despite that dislike, lockboxes...
The Daily Grind: Do you like low-stress MMO classes?
In my mind, there are two types of MMO classes. There are ones that require a lot of hands-on skill, positional maneuvering, and careful...
The Daily Grind: Have you backed any MMO Kickstarters that you deeply regret?
Yesterday, as our writers were shaking their heads over Star Citizen's latest shenanigans, Eliot cracked a joke about how having backed the game had...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ‘twinking’ in MMORPGs?
Last month, I took a few hours to put together a care package in Ultima Online for Eliot - a bag of gear, potions,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO names always get you to flub up?
You don't want to know how long it took me to reliably spell "Roegadyn" correctly, despite the fact that it's one of the five...
The Daily Grind: What small details in MMOs have you noticed?
Because I'm always playing the World of Warcraft auction house, I spend a lot of time hanging out in the Stormwind branch as a...
The Daily Grind: What’s the silliest gaming terminology you’ve heard recently?
Silly gaming terminology is one of my favorite things to mock around here - I'm a huge fan of Eliot's ongoing series on gaming terms,...
The Daily Grind: How much does fear of an MMO shutdown affect your playtime?
There are two basic reactions I've seen to people who fear that their favorite MMO is going to shut down. Not people who know,...
