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: Did Marvel Heroes just get the worst-managed MMORPG sunset of all time?
If you happened to catch the Massively OP Podcast this week, you heard my positively livid rant about the whole Marvel Heroes situation. Now,...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs with PvP-focused factions allow cross-faction interaction?
I'm on-board for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth focusing on the factional conflict, but there's a side of the factions in WoW that...
The Daily Grind: What should MMOs do to facilitate your return?
Over the past weekend, I picked up Hearthstone after a year or two away from the game. I certainly didn't remember where I left...
The Daily Grind: Did EA do gamers a big favor with its monetization overreach?
Over the last couple of weeks as players fought EA and Disney turned on its own in the Star Wars Battlefront II mess, I've...
The Daily Grind: Did you take advantage of any Black Friday sales in MMOs this weekend?
I did a ton of shopping - all online, mind you, as I'm not so far gone as to actually put on pants or...
The Daily Grind: Is an MMO’s shutdown announcement better or worse than shutdown suspicions?
This is a post about Marvel Heroes. It's also a post about Firefall. In fact, it's a post about all of the games where...
The Daily Grind: What did you misunderstand the first time through your MMO?
I have long resigned myself to the fact that no matter how much time I take in my first playthrough of an MMO, I'm...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time an MMO made you rethink your hobby?
This past week, my husband has been obsessed with Succubox. It's a satirical clicker game where you start out by click-fighting monsters and buying...
The Daily Grind: Are you celebrating World of Warcraft’s anniversary?
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, but unlike many such years, it's not "just another Thursday" to everyone else. No, this marks the...
The Daily Grind: What MMO tips do you wish you had known when you were a newbie?
One of the factors that keeps me from trying out more MMORPGs than I do is that there's a certain element of anxiety that...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?
Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?
Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost your MMO account information?
The answer for me is yes. I absolutely have. In one particular case, it was heartbreaking but finally proved recoverable; my original Final Fantasy...
The Daily Grind: What’s keeping you from going back to a favorite MMO?
It's weird to think that I've been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic on and off since its release. Seems like such a long...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
The Daily Grind: How should MMOs handle old limited-time rewards?
Out of all the various event rewards I've gotten in Final Fantasy XIV, Legacy status is the only one that a new player couldn't...
The Daily Grind: How can MMOs repurpose older zones?
One of the best gaming experiences that I had this past year was going through the entirety of the Bingo Boffin storyline from start...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on WoW’s proposed new PvP system?
Buried in the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth reveals earlier this month was the huge PvP news that eventually, PvP servers, like the...
The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?
Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...
The Daily Grind: How do you pick a mount in MMOs?
In some games, like Guild Wars 2, there's more going on with mounts than just "run faster." Frequently, you'll have more important choices to...
