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 make an effort to be positive and friendly in MMORPGs?
Despite concerns about the pervasiveness of toxicity in gaming, most gamers are not toxic. Outside of extremely social MMOs, I suspect most people probably...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO developer or community manager do you love?
I sometimes think about how difficult it would be to work as an MMO developer or community manager. While there would be a certain...
The Daily Grind: Do you buy the Daybreak-owns-Standing Stone Games rumor?
Buried in the Daybreak ruckus of last week was the rumor that Daybreak is not in fact merely the publisher of Standing Stone Games'...
The Daily Grind: What unusual MMO merch do you own?
No, dear readers, I do not own a set of Destiny 2 candles. But they're the most recent bit of odd merchandising and memorabilia...
The Daily Grind: What has been the best MMO expansion or update of 2018 so far?
We are about to put four months of 2018 in the can, and during that time there has been quite a lot of movement...
The Daily Grind: What is the greatest hoax or fake leak in all of MMORPG history?
Hah, you thought this one was going to be about Daybreak. But it's not. No, today's Daily Grind was actually inspired by something Guild Wars...
The Daily Grind: Which non-MMORPGs would make good MMORPGs?
When Jagex first announced its Transformers game, it was an MMORPG. Then it got its MMORPG elements stripped and became a MOBA, and then...
The Daily Grind: Would you appreciate the option to swap your MMO class?
I'm no stranger to the allure of alts in MMO, but there are some games where the content is so massive that I don't...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG features the most ‘hostile design’?
Last week, the Extra Credits crew did a feature on hostile architecture aka unpleasant design - a way of papering over a problem in...
The Daily Grind: How much MMO game info should be hidden from the players?
A blog post on The Psychology of Video Games blog a few weeks ago seems relevant to our interests: It explores the "pleasure paradox," which...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO does dinosaurs the best?
Dinosaurs are one of those wells that seem to show up in a lot of MMOs. World of Warcraft? Yes, there are whole zones...
The Daily Grind: What was the most disappointing MMO expansion of all time?
Best and worst, top and bottom: It's fun to discuss video game in absolute extremes (at times). And I'll bet that a lot of...
The Daily Grind: What keeps you logging into MMORPGs over a long period of time?
Earlier this month, Pantheon's community team tweeted out a question that keeps coming back to me: "What motivates you to play an MMORPG for...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
The Daily Grind: How much time do your regular MMO tasks take up?
MMOs are games of repeated content. You log in and do some things today, then in all likelihood log in to do several of...
The Daily Grind: What could MMO taverns do to get you to stick around?
I have vague memories of ArenaNet talking about Guild Wars 2 taverns prior to its launch and how these spaces would be more than...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the dumbest armor?
Back in February, PC Gamer put out a piece on the absolute dumbest character armor in gaming history. There's more than one MMORPG in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest scandal the MMORPG genre has ever seen?
Over the weekend in the Guild Wars 2 spyware article comments, a commenter remarked that Blizzard's Warden spyware was "the biggest scandal in MMOs"...
The Daily Grind: How diligent are you about making money in an MMO?
No one believes me when I say that I'm bad about making money in my main games. It's true, though; compared to the people...
The Daily Grind: Who is the best MMO villain?
Setting up and establishing a memorable villain is tricky business, especially in online games where players barrel through them like dominoes. We've fought so...
