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 into comfort MMOs or new experiences in 2023?
Now that we're into the fifth month of the year (already? how is that possible?), it's an appropriate time to look back to see...
The Daily Grind: What’s the least-loved class in your most-loved MMO?
A few weeks back, MOP's Justin penned a piece arguing that the Burglar is the least-loved class in Lord of the Rings Online -...
The Daily Grind: How often has your impulse to try a new MMO worked out?
The nature of my job means that I see a lot of MMOs crossing my radar on a daily basis. That's just to be...
The Daily Grind: How hungry are you for a good new MMO?
More than once here on the site and the podcast, we've discussed how we can sense a very real "hunger" out there for new...
The Daily Grind: Do incoherent art styles in MMOs bother you?
My husband was playing SMITE the other day and showed me a new skin for Aphrodite that is super cute and cartoony (and I...
The Daily Grind: Would you keep playing an MMO if it deleted your favorite class?
Last week, Nexon announced the unthinkable: It told players it was immediately locking creation of one of the game's playable character classes, Jett, and...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most obscure piece of MMO merch you own?
Every so often I am reminded that my Rowsdower plushie is actually really hecking rare. I got it as a thing because I pick...
The Daily Grind: What do you want out of an MMO dungeon crawl?
One of my favorite childhood books was Deathtrap Dungeon, one of those choose-your-own-adventure RPG books where you made a character and got to go...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO studio that doesn’t even make a game you like?
I'm going to dip slightly outside of true MMOs to answer this one and pick Bungie as my choice. Destiny 2 is not a...
The Daily Grind: Do you play survival sandbox games solo?
Recently I've had a hankering for survival sandbox games. This is odd, since my prior history with these games has been... well, nonexistent! I...
The Daily Grind: Is the age of superhero MMOs past?
Is it just me, or does it seem like nobody is that hot to trot for superhero MMORPGs these days? A few years ago,...
The Daily Grind: How could Blizzard make World of Warcraft more appealing to former players?
Eliot's column about World of Warcraft feeling like a dead mall struck a chord with our commenters, many of whom agreed with the feels...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO studios manipulate their playerbases with trolling and tribalism?
A few weeks ago, MOP Chris and I were discussing Star Citizen's antics - remember the video with the coffee? - and it was...
The Daily Grind: How often do you change guilds in your MMOs of choice?
Some people joined up with a guild years ago, and since then that has been The Guild I Am In. No changes. But today...
The Daily Grind: Does cel shading help or hurt an MMO’s appeal and reputation?
With titles like Tower of Fantasy on the market and Blue Protocol on its way for later this year, I thought it would be...
The Daily Grind: What are the best and worst horizontal progression systems in an MMORPG?
This morning, I want to talk about horizontal progression systems in MMOs, of which I am generally a fan! And I'm gonna start with...
The Daily Grind: What’s your least favorite sort of thing to farm in an MMO?
Some MMOs, as we all know, have actual farms. Literally, just a place where you put farm goods and you farm things. But that's...
The Daily Grind: Do you stop to watch player performances in MMOs?
Especially when you have limited time to game, it's hard to ignore that "go go go!" voice in your head that urges you to...
The Daily Grind: What are some demonstrably wrong things about old MMOs that people insist were true anyway?
A while back, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit arguing that "minmaxing an information abundance has ruined MMORPGs" and posited that devs...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most unique weapon in an MMO?
I'm sure we've done pieces on unusual weapons in MMOs over the years - we've done thousands of Daily Grinds, after all - but...
