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: Have you ever joined a volunteer guide program in an MMORPG?
The recent Anarchy Online debacle, whereby Funcom dumped its long-running Advisors of Rubi-Ka volunteer program with very little notice, really irked me, even as...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most roguish Rogue?
Rogues, Thieves, Smugglers, Scoundrels... they have many names, although for some reason we rarely see classes labeled Scofflaw or Blackguard. (I would play a...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most over-the-top skill effect in an MMO?
Looks aren't everything, but to the MMO player, they do seem to matter. Having strong skill visuals to match their effects makes using them...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best ‘shopping’ experience?
We're talking about in-game shopping, mind you, not photoshop or cash-shop or workshops or whatever.
I've joked before - not entirely facetiously - that one...
The Daily Grind: How successful are you in getting friends to join you in your favorite MMO?
Recruit-a-friend programs are everywhere with MMOs, but they run aground on a very simple problem: My friends either are already here or don't want...
The Daily Grind: How does Dragonflight rank among World of Warcraft expansions?
Now that World of Warcraft has clocked well over a half-year into its Dragonflight expansion cycle, we've seen a lot of development and opinions...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO tutorials continue through the whole game?
A while back, there was a random thread on the Elder Scrolls Online subreddit from a poor lost soul desperate to figure out what...
The Daily Grind: Are you an explorer or an exploiter in MMORPGs?
No, I don't mean exploiter in the sploitz sense. This is a legitimate question!
My husband and I were listening to a podcast a few...
The Daily Grind: What has been your most irritating unexpected MMO outage?
An MMO being unavailable is not a dire situation. Of all the things that could happen to you that are inconvenient on a given...
The Daily Grind: Has an MMO community ever gone out of its way to welcome you?
I confess to becoming more than a little hot under the collar when I heard that Funcom had pulled the plug in the most...
The Daily Grind: How long should major MMO patches be tested?
A few weeks back, MOP's Justin expressed astonishment that a particular patch for Lord of the Rings Online was being pushed from public testing...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...
The Daily Grind: How do you balance new single-player games with your MMO time?
This may come as a surprise, but the reason I play Final Fantasy XIV isn't that it's the only game in the series that...
The Daily Grind: How much should race and class changes cost in your MMO?
There will surely come a day when you will find yourself either dissatisfied with your character's race and class... or you'll be sorely tempted...
The Daily Grind: What are the most common studio fibs we tolerate in the MMO genre?
Buried in the comments of a WoW Factor column a while back, MOP reader Nathan expressed skepticism over claims about being able to full...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is fun – but not memorable?
A while back in Massively Overthinking, MOP's Andy referred to a specific game as "fun but not especially memorable," and I had a record-scratch...
The Daily Grind: How many dev names do you know on your favorite MMO’s dev team?
I was having a chat with a friend at one point about World of Warcraft's development team and I was about midway through talking...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO takes itself way too seriously?
There's no shortage of MMOs in our space that are like playful, irreverent children in love with bright colors and pop culture puns (not...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst guild you’ve ever been in?
Friends, I saw a horrific tweet the other day about - and I am not making this up - a "pay-to-earn gaming guild," and...
The Daily Grind: Do you read the quest text in MMOs before you accept quests?
We assume of others what we know of ourselves, and it is thus that I know a lot of people do not even spare...
