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 intentionally sub-optimal choices do you make in your MMO?
Some people very deliberately do not look up what the ideal ways are to play their character types in MMOs. They never read guides...
The Daily Grind: Are you more into WoW Classic, WoW retail, or WoW none-of-the-above?
With WoW Classic taking players into the Sunwell Plateau last month and WoW retail pushing into the final patch of Shadowlands' run, there's a...
The Daily Grind: What counts as ‘gear’ in MMORPGs?
As we noted in yesterday's piece on Diablo Immortal, there's been a lot of anger over a Blizzard bluename comment that prior to launch...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from MMO guilds?
This morning's question works whether or not you've ever been in or led an MMORPG guild yourself, I think, as you can certainly see...
The Daily Grind: Do you like repeated event content in MMOs?
When World of Warcraft's holidays come around each year, they are largely the same as the event that you experienced last year, which was...
The Daily Grind: What are some of the silliest mistakes you made while starting MMOs?
Starting out brand-new in an MMORPG, especially one not long on the market, is a thrilling and heady journey of discovery. However, such journey...
The Daily Grind: What level of pay-to-win are you willing to tolerate in MMORPGs?
Friend-of-MOP Clowd over at RIFT blog The Ghar Station penned a provocative piece this week proposing for the MMORPG genre a five-tiered system for...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘solo’ in MMORPGs?
When I played Guild Wars, I mostly did it solo. I'd go to towns, load up on my henchmen, and then go out and...
The Daily Grind: How do you get over feeling like it’s too late to start an MMO?
Maybe I get inside my own head too much, but I always experience inner turmoil when I start or come back to an MMO...
The Daily Grind: How much does an MMO’s population influence your perception of its success?
A few weeks back, there was a flurry of panic on Reddit over the realization that Final Fantasy XIV's Steam counts had fallen 70%...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most unique hybrid class in an MMO?
Back in the long long ago, the idea of "hybrid" classes and skills sets was a big deal. Classic EverQuest, for example, borrowed from...
The Daily Grind: What system in your main MMO have you just never been interested in exploring?
Look, I'm sorry, I know there's a lot of interesting stuff going on with gardening in Final Fantasy XIV. I know that this system...
The Daily Grind: What is your MMO pet’s name — and why?
The other day in Lord of the Rings Online, I learned something I never knew before: How to re-name your cosmetic pets. Unlike combat...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO gear enchanting system is the least annoying?
MOP reader Leiloni recently alerted us to an interesting discussion over on the Ashes of Creation forums, where Intrepid is trying to get the...
The Daily Grind: Has an MMO ever frightened you?
If any game has ever aimed for frightening the living daylights out of players with more focus than The Secret World, I don't know...
The Daily Grind: How cluttered or clean is your MMO user interface?
Growing up with MMORPGs, it's only natural to get used to the often cluttered interfaces. The other night I was playing LOTRO and forced...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best auction hall system?
I can't remember where I was reading it, but a commenter on MOP recently said that the lack of auction hall in The Elder...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best format for an MMO headstart?
In his retrospective on Lord of the Rings Online's 15th anniversary, MOP's Justin penned a paragraph about a part of the launch of the...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMO characters have a sense of style?
Let me make sure that my meaning is perfectly clear here: I am not in any way calling upon you to defend your sartorial...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs provide vibration and haptic feedback to make combat more visceral?
When it comes to making combat in video games feel real and visceral, there are only so many tricks in a developer's bag. The...
