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: Are you concerned for Daybreak’s other MMORPGs?
Last night's startling news that Daybreak plans to sunset Landmark abruptly in February (while forbidding player emulators) sent the MMORPG community into... I'll call...
The Daily Grind: Which 2016 MMO shutdown affected you the most?
Every game is someone's favorite. It might be for silly reasons, but even when games that you barely think of get shuttered, someone is...
The Daily Grind: How do you buck the system in MMOs?
I cannot be the only player who secretly delights in small rebellions against the intended plans and designs of MMO developers. Every so often,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the brightest future?
One of my favorite recurring posts we do is on the healthiest MMORPGs in the genre, partly because it reminds me that we do...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive item you’ve ever bought in an MMORPG cash shop?
A few weeks back, I was super excited about the elk mount coming to the Elder Scrolls Online cash shop. I needed a mount...
The Daily Grind: What are your MMO resolutions for the new year?
Here we are again: It's a new year, and 2017 has a very low bar to pass to be a better year. Not that...
The Daily Grind: What tempts you into rolling a new MMO character?
I've recently returned to Lord of the Rings Online (as have several friends, thanks to the new studio announcement) and found myself getting sorely...
The Daily Grind: Will you Kickstart any video games in 2017?
I backed only one Kickstarter in 2016: Hero's Song, which you'll recall didn't fund. While I'm generally suspicious of Kickstarter and have regretted a...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle being wrong about speculation with an MMO?
A new expansion is a time for fan communities to come together and speculate about what's coming next. What will be the next batch...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best PvP mode?
We have certainly talked about PvP a lot in this space over the years, but often it's a flat-out comparison of one title to another....
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG trend of 2016?
Yesterday, we rolled out our award for the best new trend in the MMORPG industry this year. (Our writers picked content scaling, in case...
The Daily Grind: Have MMOs ever helped you through a dark time?
Today's Daily Grind is inspired by two people: MySecretID, who sent along a link to an Extra Credits video about a gamer whose devastating...
The Daily Grind: What did you get this year?
You know, people, today is a holiday. I am writing this days in advance, because on the morning you're reading this, I will be...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been part of a play in an MMO?
Two of my favorite MMOs, Lord of the Rings Online and The Secret World, share an unusual but interesting trait: They both have interactive...
The Daily Grind: What was the best new MMORPG zone added in 2016?
It's practically expected of a major MMORPG patch or expansion to add new zones -- the more, the better, setting aside their self-inflicted endgame...
The Daily Grind: Do you do in-game gift exchanges in MMOs?
Well, the winter holidays are just about here, and that means giving the fit of games. Also, gifts that aren't games. Some gifts that...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most liked and most hated MMO fantasy creature?
MMORPGs are populated by a zoo's worth of creatures as part of our eternal safari to seek out new life forms and then extinguish...
The Daily Grind: Does Daybreak’s involvement with LOTRO and DDO worry you?
Yesterday, we were all pretty astonished to learn that Turbine has spun out Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online --...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG had the best community in 2016?
A loss of a sense of community is something many MMORPG players lament as our genre approaches two decades, whether they think communities slip away...
The Daily Grind: What character creators in MMORPGs frustrate you to no end?
The problem I have with the character creator in The Elder Scrolls Online is not that it lacks power; it's got that. My problem...
