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]
the daily grind
The Daily Grind: Do you pay close attention to MMO studio financial reports?
Investor reports are bland, boring, and usually not what anyone finds to be gripping reading even if you're an investor in a given company....
The Daily Grind: Should ArenaNet continue Guild Wars 2 expansions or make Guild Wars 3?
While I personally am not completely sold on Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons (I was never a Cantha Baby, if I can coin...
The Daily Grind: Do you support MMOs that you don’t like or play?
Last month when Book of Travels launched, I caught a comment from a MOP reader, Kothoses, who said something that really grabbed me. He...
The Daily Grind: Which new MMO from 2021 do you have the highest hopes for?
This year has been almost an embarrassment of riches when it comes to new MMOs launching with a pretty sizable push. We saw Crowfall...
The Daily Grind: What actions do MMO devs take to unintentionally kill their games?
Let me preface today's topic by saying that no MMORPG developers I know would ever intentionally sabotage or hinder their games. Everyone always has...
The Daily Grind: How often do you make it through the first month of a new MMO?
If you don't read MMO-related subreddits, you might not be aware that the folks coming in on the daily to insist that New World...
The Daily Grind: If your favorite MMO announced maintenance mode tomorrow, would you keep playing?
If you'll permit me to butcher the old phrase about getting older vs. dying... maintenance mode sucks, but it's better than the alternative.
Maintenance mode,...
The Daily Grind: Are you an effective leader in MMOs?
In any sort of group content in an MMO, especially going in for the first time, someone needs to be a leader. Someone needs...
The Daily Grind: Which dead MMOs do you hope will come back some day?
Last week, Fallen Earth returned to service, which delighted me to no end. When you have favorite MMOs that end up being shuttered or...
The Daily Grind: Is New World’s travel system tax actually fun?
I mentioned a few days ago in the big list of New World complaints that I was more put off by the Azoth system...
The Daily Grind: How long do you spend to ‘finding the fun’ in an MMO?
Reviewing games is an interesting prospect because it changes the way you approach video games in general. You're not just playing for your own...
The Daily Grind: What MMO made a terrible first impression with you?
One of the reasons that I really hold off from participating in most early access and beta rounds these days is that there really...
The Daily Grind: Do you keep track of your MMO gaming time, and if so, how?
A while back, we did a Daily Grind on which MMORPGs we played most excessively, and one thing that I pointed out was that...
The Daily Grind: If you could remove one World of Warcraft expansion, which one would it be?
It may seem like an odd memory at this point, but there was a time when the answer to "what's the worst World of Warcraft...
The Daily Grind: What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever bought in an MMO?
There are two types of MMORPG players: the type who spends game currency like there's no tomorrow because it's a video game and why...
The Daily Grind: How prone are you to being distracted in an MMO?
When WildStar first came out, I remember reading (and even personally sharing) a whole lot of praise for how many things that the game's...
The Daily Grind: Does New World need mounts?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on walking in MMOs, and I happened to mention New World as a game where walking...
The Daily Grind: Is New World’s economy already in trouble?
A couple of weeks ago on the MassivelyOP New World roundtable podcast, we criticized the game's fledgling economy, wondering aloud whether it would perk...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most chill MMO for when you want to relax?
Even as the video game industry keeps trying to go bigger, more epic, and more bombastic in its games, I've noticed that there's this...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually use the ‘walk’ option in MMOs?
Movement in New World has been a bit of a weird reverse learning curve if you're using to wide range of movement in MMOs...
