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: Do you have a good grasp of your MMO’s history?
As someone who's played his fair share of both Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 over the years, I have to confess that I've...
The Daily Grind: Do you get MMO event fatigue?
Based on how many awards it won last year and how many Massively OP writers and guildies have been sucked into it, I know...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most successful MMO do-over?
Yesterday's revelation that Final Fantasy XIV is up to four million registered accounts globally (not counting trials, Square insists!) is impressive to me not...
The Daily Grind: What canceled MMO do you wish had been made?
MMO players are forever bemoaning the overabundance of fantasy titles in our genre. But truthfully, we have lots of sci-fi and zombies games nowadays too....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best sound design?
We pay a lot of attention to what we're seeing in MMOs, but have you ever stopped to really process what you're hearing? Sound...
The Daily Grind: Are you still on board with EverQuest Next?
The Daybreak buy-out. Mass layoffs. No more Storybricks. And it might not even be free-to-play!
There are plenty of reasons to go all Chicken Little...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best game-within-a-game in the MMO space?
Jef and I were talking this past weekend about something Star Wars Galaxies got really, really right: the Jump to Lightspeed expansion, which brought...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO boasts the best bard?
A player on Reddit recently asked one of the most pressing questions in the MMO genre today: "Where can I find a fun Bard-like...
The Daily Grind: Are you with or behind the player curve?
There's one unfortunate fallout to taking an extended leave from an MMO: You quickly fall behind the curve. As patches and expansions and changes...
The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic about WildStar’s future?
I'm sure this won't serve as a grand surprise to anyone reading this, but I've been thinking a lot about the future of WildStar...
The Daily Grind: How do you rate Guild Wars 2’s season 2?
As I write this, I'm almost finished with the second season of Guild Wars 2's vaunted living story. Without any specific spoilers, I have...
The Daily Grind: Do you have more time or money for games?
I'm told that time is money, but the exchange rate is not universal. There are people whose time is, apparently, worth more than my...
The Daily Grind: Do you see hate speech in your MMO?
The other day one of our readers, Joe F., pointed us at a conversation between Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman and an ArcheAge customer...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO character for PvP?
I've been spending my gaming time lately PvPing in Guild Wars 2 in an attempt to reinkindle my old obsession with World of Warcraft battleground-style...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite winter zone?
In the northern parts of the US, we are currently in the grips of a particularly brutal winter. Snow, ice, frostbite, polar bear attacks,...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO players actually want social media integration?
World of Warcraft's upcoming publish, we learned this week, will boast Twitter integration. Welcome, WoW, to the year 2011 when we were already complaining about the rise of...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about Daybreak Game Company?
You know, for some reason we didn't have a whole lot of discussion about the Sony Online Entertainment buyout and name change when it...
The Daily Grind: What’s your one wish for Massively Overpowered?
Just over two weeks ago, I found out that Massively.com was being shuttered along with the rest of the Joystiq network. It's been a convoluted...
