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: What’s the worst MMO music from an MMO where you like the music?
Music is important. Some MMOs do not have very good music, and as a result you don't actually notice when one piece is bad...
The Daily Grind: Are you a half-hearted MMO crafter?
Whenever we talk about crafting, I feel that we're too quick to divide all players into "crafters" and "non-crafters" without considering that there might...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO’s lore makes your eyes glaze over?
Earlier this week, Blizzard posted up a brief in-universe timeline of the Diablo IP's storyline, and in spite of my having played these games,...
The Daily Grind: Where have you met your best MMO friends?
Sometimes your MMO friends are good companions whose homes you visit and who you give gifts. Like holiday gifts, or parcels of lands, or...
The Daily Grind: What isn’t explained well enough in your MMO?
Your MMO can have the best, most flexible systems and the most robust options -- but if nobody but your devs and elite players...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the least fair regional pricing?
Last week, we got a letter from a gamer in Türkiye (hiya kaickul!) who was frustrated with Blizzard's regional pricing for Diablo II Resurrected...
The Daily Grind: Does it bug you when MMO cash shops rotate out their buyables?
One of my few pet peeves with Guild Wars 2 has been the design of its cash shop, which traditionally has rotated through its...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had an MMO that serves as your guilty pleasure?
As a rule, I don't do guilty pleasures. It's not something that I personally believe in. Not in the sense that I'm unfamiliar with...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever played an R-rated MMO?
If we were to transfer MMOs over to the realm of movies and give each an MPAA rating, we'd most likely see a lopsided...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an MMO with a premade character?
I tend to think that if I were trying to come up with a list of mechanics and concepts and features that pretty much...
The Daily Grind: What’s your self-admitted dumbest reason for not playing an MMO?
There are a lot of super valid reasons to not play an MMO. It's an open PvP game and you don't like that, for...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle online gacha games?
With titles like Genshin Impact and Tower of Fantasy making inroads with the online RPG genre, it's probably best that we had a discussion...
The Daily Grind: What’s the mark of a bad player in your MMO of choice?
Before we start this Daily Grind, I need to point out that good players make bad plays all the time, and I bet everybody...
The Daily Grind: Does the death of E3 mark the end of an era or a welcome revolution?
When all the rest of the big companies dropped out of E3 last week, I mused in work chat that surely the ESA wouldn't...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever made an MMO character based on a celeb or pop culture icon?
Sometimes the faucet of character inspiration runs dry, leaving us to either hammer on that "randomize" button in desperation -- or to draw from...
The Daily Grind: What’s your fondest MMO memory from… last month?
Welcome to the very first Massively Overpowered Throwback Weekend! You know, we've been reporting on the news here for a long time now, something...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a My Little Pony MMO?
A few weeks back, MOP's Carlo related the tale of how his friends were debating whether they'd rather have a My Little Pony or...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been inclined to try out a survival sandbox game?
Over the past few years we've seen the trend of a lot of survival sandbox games ebb and flow. These games are smaller than...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever sold your MMO account?
The other day a random line in an otherwise forgettable article reminded me that, once upon a time, it was a lot more common...
The Daily Grind: Do you have any dealbreakers when it comes to trying new MMOs?
So I have a thing about MMO cameras: I pretty much will not play an MMORPG that doesn't let me center my camera and...
