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: How important is roleplaying to MMORPGs?
It's not exactly a secret that one of my first loves in any MMORPG is roleplaying. The whole reason I have multiple alts in...
The Daily Grind: What MMO character customization options excite you?
I am one of those types of people who enjoys spending far, far too long on character customization screens fine-tuning my toon's look. The...
The Daily Grind: Where did you Marvel Heroes players scatter to after the sunset?
A couple of months ago, after we learned about the sunset of Marvel Heroes but before it actually happened early, we asked our local...
The Daily Grind: Is ‘naming-and-shaming’ MMO cheaters a good idea?
Last week on Reddit, an EVE Online player begged CCP to organize a wall of shame for botters - essentially an online list of...
The Daily Grind: How often do you check your MMO playtime?
My main character in Final Fantasy XIV is fast approaching a year of total playtime. That isn't entirely surprising, since she's been in the...
The Daily Grind: Are we due for a good cyberpunk MMO?
I am a generally big fan of the cyberpunk genre, especially when it works in a healthy dose of '80s aesthetics for that clunky,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio told the biggest fib in 2017?
Lies piss me off. I have had MMO developers look me in the eye and lie right to my face. I have had PR...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever regretted funding a Kickstarted MMO?
Look, if you want to call me a doomsayer or a pessimist or whatever when it comes to Kickstarter and MMOs, you have every...
Game Theory explores the psychological exploitation at work in lockboxes
"It's as easy as one, two, insert your credit card number here!" So begins the parody at the beginning of the first of two...
The Daily Grind: What MMO zone biome puts you in an adventuring mood?
Two of my favorite MMORPG zones are World of Warcraft's Mulgore and WildStar's Algoroc. Both managed to catch some of the spirit and flavor...
The Daily Grind: How much worse could MMO business models get?
During the roundtable podcast a few weeks ago, when we had the whole Massively OP staff on to chat, we tackled a question from Teviko...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best camping system?
The first MMORPG I ever played had a camping skill. You chopped down some wood for kindling, clicked to build a fire, and then...
The Daily Grind: How important is your MMO circle of friends to enjoying the game?
I've been fortunate, over the past couple of years, to make some really good friends in MMOs. Those friends are not the reason why...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best sky views?
I know it's a simple and basic thing, but I absolutely adore a great skybox in my MMORPGs. There's something about looking up at...
The Daily Grind: What MMO will be the next to change up its business model dramatically?
You may not like it, but the vast majority of MMORPGs are free-to-play or buy-to-play as of 2018. EVE Online went free-to-play at the...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a PvE game with full item decay?
One of the most insightful comments I ever saw about Darkfall (yes, Darkfall) was that, realistically, in a game with open PvP and full...
Perfect Ten: 10 tips for crafting a unique MMO character name
Tell me if you've ever been here: You just finished spending way too much time pouring over options in the character creation screen and...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you follow that you’re not playing?
It should be said that Massively OP's site mission is nearly impossible, since we're trying to keep tabs on and cover the news for...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the worst possible maps?
When I think back about the ways in which MMOs have improved over the 15-ish years I've been playing them, my thoughts invariably turn...
The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2017?
Last year, Massively OP commenter deekay_zero proposed this topic as a joke award, but when we ran it as a Daily Grind, it prompted...
