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: Should one-shotting exist in MMOs?
Here's a pet peeve I've got in video games, especially MMOs: being one-shotted. Also one-shotting. Nothing should die in one hit. Is it realistic?...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most underrated MMO that you don’t play?
Project Gorgon. Academically, I know this is a good MMO. I know it's a weird MMO. I know I'd like this MMO. I love...
The Daily Grind: What MMO have you struggled to find guides for?
Finding player-written guides explaining how a given system works in an MMO or how to do a particularly obscure quest has been a part...
The Daily Grind: What’s been the best MMO gaming experience for you this year so far?
Now that we're over the halfway mark of 2022, it's a perfect time to take a quick intermission and evaluate our personal gaming journeys...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest time period you’ve ever subbed to a single MMO?
This question is a bit biased toward the subscription era of MMOs, but I think it still has some relevance given just how many...
The Daily Grind: Are there crowdfunded MMOs you’re still excited for?
When it comes to crowdfunded MMOs, the ones that get the most attention from gamers are often those that have collapsed into scams or...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best approach for player flying in MMOs?
Flying in MMOs is far less controversial these days than it used to be a decade or so ago, with many titles sporting some...
The Daily Grind: Why did Red Dead Online fail?
Last week, Rockstar delivered the distressing news that it's essentially putting Red Dead Online, the MMO version of Red Dead Redemption 2, into maintenance...
The Daily Grind: Do you pay attention to how MMO studios treat their devs?
Every time a game studio is outed for bad behavior when it comes to its workers - or good behavior, for that matter -...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever ragequit an MMO?
We've all heard the stories, at the very least. Someone died in a particularly inconvenient way, or someone lost a valuable items, or a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO zone offers the best summertime vibes?
Now that we're in July and the ball of sky-fire is on the warpath, it's hard to deny that we've finally arrived in summer...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is too ambitious for its own good?
This week's Final Fantasy XIV update had our newsroom shaking our heads, not because of any animosity for the game but because the situation...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever expected an MMO to be your home… and then it wasn’t?
I was so excited when Star Wars: The Old Republic was coming out. I had plans for my characters of all eight classes. I...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMO starting zones you always avoid?
While some MMOs only offer you a single standard beginning zone from which to launch your legend, there are plenty that give players a...
The Daily Grind: What unlaunched and canceled MMO do you wish could be revived?
It's not uncommon to ask MMO players which sunsetted MMO they'd like to see returned to life. That's not the game we're playing in...
The Daily Grind: Does any MMORPG have content that can match Desert Bus for monotony?
A few weeks ago, my husband and I were joking about Desert Bus and had to explain it to our kids, who naturally had...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you wish you had quit before you did?
As has been observed by others, we all have stories about romantic interests who qualify as "the one that got away." We tend to...
The Daily Grind: How do you motivate yourself to clear MMO hurdles?
Don't you hate that feeling in an MMO when your progress suddenly hits a wall? Maybe you simply can't beat the next bit of...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever met any of your MMO guildies in real life?
I suspect that the pandemic put a bit of a damper on the idea of having guild meetups, just as it brought most conventions...
The Daily Grind: Would you start playing an MMO in soft maintenance mode?
Some games officially announce when they're going into maintenance mode. (And some games then update more than some non-maintenance titles, but that's an exception.)...
