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]
the daily grind
The Daily Grind: How do MMOs bring out the best and worst in you?
Confession time: MMORPGs haven't always brought out the best in me. Sometimes I've gotten irritated when real life "intrudes" on gaming, even if it's...
The Daily Grind: When has going back to an MMO gone wrong for you?
I'm a big supporter of walking away from MMORPGs when they don't work for you, especially at launch -- but I always stay open...
The Daily Grind: How would you design a Pokemon MMORPG?
It's been a good week for the alternate reality game genre: Aside from Ingress, most of the ARGs on mobile are teeny-tiny, and even writing about...
The Daily Grind: What inspires you to ignore another player in an MMO?
For a variety of reasons, I do not have the ability to remove people from the universe at a whim. I cannot simply make...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you wish you had played a long time ago?
One of the most frustrating aspects of being an MMORPG gamer is the passage of time. I can't put MMOs that I'm not playing...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs reward vets for helping newbies?
During this week's podcast, Justin explained to me something that Trion is up to in RIFT that blew me away: Players who have run...
The Daily Grind: How old were you when you got into MMOs?
When Ultima Online launched, the idea of having a computer capable of running it was a pipe dream for me, much less also having...
The Daily Grind: How did you find your MMO guild?
I'll admit that I have a very haphazard approach to finding guilds in MMORPGs. Part of my problem is that I jump between games...
The Daily Grind: What does the MMORPG genre offer younger players?
Earlier this year, a Redditor on the MMORPG sub pondered whether young folks play MMORPGs -- not kids, mind you, but teens, high schoolers...
Leaderboard: How much time do you spend playing MMOs relative to non-MMOs?
Some of the responses to this morning's Daily Grind made me wonder about the balance of playtime MMO players maintain. See what I just...
The Daily Grind: Did you buy any MMOs during the Steam sale?
Steam's big summer sale is over today -- about five hours from the time this post goes live, smack in the middle of 4th-of-July...
The Daily Grind: What do you collect in MMOs?
At its heart, every single MMO is a game about collecting things. Most games have a number of very obvious things to collect; collect...
The Daily Grind: Does your character have a backstory?
One thing that greatly bugs me about MMORPG character creation is how little thought that these games give into providing any sort of backstory...
The Daily Grind: How does your guild decide which MMOs to play?
Earlier this week, one of the most well-known multigame guilds in the MMOspace, Gaiscioch Clan, published an article by Benjamin "Foghladha" Foley discussing just...
The Daily Grind: How well do you think you represent your main MMO’s average player?
One of the things that I remind myself of on a regular basis is that I am not the average player in an MMO....
The Daily Grind: What have you never done in your MMO?
Sometimes we define our characters by what they we have done and accomplished with them. We've leveled them to the cap. We've gone on...
The Daily Grind: Do you like ‘seasonal challenge’ content in MMORPGs?
On this week's Massively OP podcast -- out yesterday evening for our $5+ Patreon backers and out later this afternoon for everybody else --...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever learned about major world news while playing an MMORPG?
Last week when news of Brexit took over the western world, a Star Citizen Redditor made a comment about the weirdness of learning that...
The Daily Grind: Is launching a modern MMO without a group finder a bad idea?
The developers of Saga of Lucimia have declared that they do not want a group finder in their game, because shouting and manually forming...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has killed you the most?
There's a small story behind that screenshot up there. I was playing Star Trek Online, and during a boss fight I was stricken by...
