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: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing MMORPGs in 2016?
MOP commenter deekay_zero proposed this week's Daily Grind in a roundabout way, and fair warning: It's a bit of a downer. He semi-jokingly suggested that...
The Daily Grind: What cosmetic options for your characters does your favorite MMORPG lack?
You know what games need? Piercings. More piercings in general. Why can I not have any piercings beyond my ears in Final Fantasy XIV?...
The Daily Grind: Which City of Heroes spiritual successor are you rooting for?
I was a tiny bit flabbergasted last weekend when I saw that there was yet another City of Heroes spiritual successor project in the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG developer has the best communication with players?
MMORPG developers come in lots of flavors of communication, with PR and community teams that run the gamut from "oh, we still pay for...
The Daily Grind: Who was the best new character added in an MMORPG in 2016?
We're gearing up to kick off our annual awards later this month, but in the meantime, we thought it would be fun to incorporate...
The Daily Grind: Do you keep your profanity filter on in MMO chat?
Bad words still make me giggle. I've been told that I'm not allowed to link my several examples of this, but I'm sure that...
The Daily Grind: How do you like to collaborate in MMOs?
While some people seem to thrive on competition and personal achievement, I've always found that I work best when I'm collaborating as part of...
The Daily Grind: Will players always trump NPCs as MMO PvP adversaries?
Prolific MOP commenter Sally Bowls posted a note last week that stood out to me as something we should all be seriously considering. Most...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever wished that supplementary lore were represented in an MMO?
I do not care about Hearthstone. Odds are I'm never going to; I got over my CCG phase ages ago with actual cards, and...
The Daily Grind: How do you like to compete in MMOs?
Do you thrive on competition? Is the only time that you truly feel alive is when you're pitting your wit and skill against another...
The Daily Grind: Is Twitch chat just MMO general chat writ large?
Last week, an Indiana University Bloomington team released its analysis of over a billion comments made on Twitch over a two-month period in 2014...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most bothersome part of MMORPG monetization?
A recent GIbiz interview on Ubisoft's monetization reveals that studios, at least the type making online shooters, have come full circle again to the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most frustrating streak of bad luck you’ve had in an MMO?
There are two things I'd really like in World of Warcraft's most recent expansion, and since both of them are entirely random, I'm flat...
The Daily Grind: What MMO music would you never turn off?
Even though I'm a huge fan of MMORPG soundtracks (shameless plugs for Battle Bards and Jukebox Heroes go here), I get that music can...
The Daily Grind: Are you a consumables hoarder in MMORPGs?
This weekend of all weekends, it only seems right to ask you about hoarding, although I don't mean just getting stuff to have it...
The Daily Grind: Do you get extra MMO time during the holidays?
Today begins the dread stretch of time known in the United States as the holidays, a period of frenzied consumerism marked with a lot...
The Daily Grind: What awards would you give to MMOs?
With December right around the corner, the Massively OP staff is hard at work prepping some awesome end-of-the-year content for you, including our annual...
The Daily Grind: What’s the friendliest PvP encounter you’ve ever had in an MMORPG?
Not long ago, my little family detoured from our weekend road trip to have lunch with MOP's Eliot and his wife. Video games were...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you completely changed your main in an MMO?
There's never really a reason to completely swap mains in Final Fantasy XIV unless you really, really want to have another character. You're never...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of your MMORPG’s public test realms?
The patch server. The PTR. The PTS. Whatever your MMORPG calls it, it's probably got one: some sort of publicly accessible server that gets the...
