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: How visible should your achievements be inside an MMORPG?
Last week, the Massively OP staff were chit-chatting about Guild Wars 2's Out of the Shadows when I mentioned that I loathe the masteries...
The Daily Grind: When did you think an MMO sucked, only to change your mind once you played it?
A boardgame YouTuber I follow said something in his last video that I thought applied so beautifully to everything -- including MMORPGs. Chaz Marler has...
The Daily Grind: When were you completely wrong in your predictions for an MMO?
It was just about three years ago that I was looking forward to both WildStar launching and Final Fantasy XIV relaunching. Back then, I...
The Daily Grind: What would you change about your main character?
One of the drawbacks to investing in a huge chunk of time into a single character in most MMORPGs is finding out down the...
The Daily Grind: How important are MMORPG playerbase metrics to you?
While playing Overwatch with guildies the other night, my husband turned to me with a hypothetical. The guys were speculating on World of Warcraft's...
The Daily Grind: Is console support a bad idea for MMOs?
The fact that Destiny is tossing itself into maintenance mode on older consoles got me thinking about the very nature of MMOs on consoles....
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs churn out new classes on a regular basis?
I continue to be impressed and occasionally bewildered by how Marvel Heroes keeps releasing new classes into the game, sometimes as frequently as every...
The Daily Grind: What MMORPG city would you not want to see destroyed?
ArenaNet teased last week that some sort of doom might befall the Krytan city Divinity's Reach in the impending living world season, and I'm sad.
Guild...
The Daily Grind: Do you think of yourself as an MMO PvPer?
Whether I've consciously realized it or not, I've been a PvPer since my first FFA PvP sandbox, Ultima Online, in 1997. Since then, I've...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs did you like more when you started than later on?
When I first started playing Warhammer Online as part of Choose My Adventure ages ago, I had a lot of fun. Until I leveled...
The Daily Grind: Have you tried any new MMOs this summer?
I always have the loftiest of intentions to dig into MMOs I've never played before, going so far as to load a slew of...
The Daily Grind: Did MMOs displace local co-op?
The first month or so after I tried out my first MMORPG, my boyfriend at the time and I actually shared an account. One...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest way MMOs have affected your real life?
I am not going to lie to you, dear readers: This is a question to which I have a really easy answer. I've been...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO does the most with death mechanics?
We die so many times in MMOs that it's lost all meaning. It's merely a pause button, perhaps with a slight penalty attached, unless you...
The Daily Grind: How do you justify blasting ‘free’ MMORPG content?
An anonymous reader recently sent us an email trying to puzzle out the problem of criticizing a genre full of handouts.
"A lot of games...
The Daily Grind: What do you expect from MMORPG expansions in 2016?
I ran across an intriguing chunk of comments down below Justin's impressions piece on Star Trek Online's latest expansion. One reader said he was...
The Daily Grind: What MMO handles active combat the best?
Action combat is a big thing for newer games. Instead of just sitting, targeting, and spamming abilities, you have to dodge hither and yon,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best eyecandy?
We can quibble about the quality and variety of content in MMORPGs, but I think most of us would agree that visually, online games...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of underwater combat in MMORPGs?
Earlier this week, MOP's Andrew Ross mentioned in his writeup of Guild Wars 2's Out of the Shadows episode that he was disappointed that...
The Daily Grind: How much notice do you need before an MMORPG patch goes live?
There are some games where patches get so much advance notice that you feel like they're already here months in advance. Final Fantasy XIV's...
