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: Should MMOs repurpose their old content more often?
World of Warcraft certainly provoked the raising of many, many eyebrows last week when it announced that its secret March patch ended up being...
The Daily Grind: When has a wholesome MMO feature wound up backfiring?
A few weeks ago, the Ultima Online team released a newsletter, and its very first entry caught my eye.
"I want to address a pressing...
The Daily Grind: How long can you do the same thing in an MMORPG?
I have, it must be said, a high tolerance for grinding and repetition. I can handle a very long stretch of doing the exact...
The Daily Grind: Do you experience social anxiety in MMOs?
While an outmoded argument says that everyone who shows up for massively multiplayer online roleplaying games must be in the mood for socializing, history...
The Daily Grind: What scares you about the MMO industry?
People have been telling me to stop worrying so much my whole life, but worrying is how I cope with uncertainty, and there's a...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most macabre thing you’ve done or seen in an MMORPG?
MJ's coverage of the new gravedigging mechanics in Path of Exile (bury corpses of whole families together for a stat boost!) got me thinking...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer risky or reliable strategies in an MMO?
Back when I cut my teeth on MMORPG play in Final Fantasy XI, there were accepted strategies for gaining levels via normal leveling. You...
The Daily Grind: Who’s the most sympathetic or tragic MMO dungeon boss?
Usually when we come to a boss in a dungeon, we see it as a plus-sized obstacle that's between us and advancement and loot....
The Daily Grind: What’s your most-used consumable in MMORPGs?
I've been thinking a lot of about economy problems lately - economy problems in MMORPGs, that is. It's a confluence of discussions, really: my...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs where you feel finished?
The very nature of any given MMO means that as long as the game is still running, you'll never truly be done. Sure, rogue...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most uncomplicated MMO to play?
Listen, I appreciate depth and complexity in games that are designed well. I like having a bevy of choices in an MMORPG to keep...
The Daily Grind: Have daily login bonuses ever gotten you to stay in an MMORPG?
Back in February, Lord of the Rings Online kicked off another one of its promotions that I assume is meant to get people who...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are best primed for retirement gamers?
A conversation with MOP's Carlo the other day made me wonder about this topic. Folks who were 40 or so when the first MMOs...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite underappreciated MMORPG?
It can be hard to judge what quite constitutes an underappreciated MMORPG in any given context. It's easy to say that you feel like...
The Daily Grind: What’s the last MMO or online RPG you played on a recommendation?
As much as we like to hold ourselves up as ironclad individuals above the influence of others, c'mon, we all feel the tug and...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most unlucky MMO?
A few weeks back when Fractured Online was contending with yet another round of exploits, rollbacks, and downtime, MOP reader Gidja remarked that perhaps...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst about constantly re-inventing itself?
For years now there has been a recurring chorus among World of Warcraft fans of not wanting to re-learn how to play the fan's...
The Daily Grind: Do you cull your MMO character rosters at all?
I don't think I'm going that far out on a limb by saying that there are a lot of MMO altoholics in our audience....
The Daily Grind: What’s your current backup MMORPG?
I'm really enjoying what I'm considering my second wind in MMORPGs, fam. I had a rough spot in the mid-teens after the original Star...
The Daily Grind: What’s the hardest MMORPG to return to after a long time away?
When I returned to Lord of the Rings Online several years ago, I'd been away for a very, very long time - so long...
