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 expectations do you have for Amazon’s New World?
It's already been a crazy busy summer for MMO tests, patches, expansions, and launches -- and we are far from done. One of the...
The Daily Grind: If you could fight only one mob type in MMOs forever, what would it be?
Undead for me. I can probably chalk this up to my earliest MMORPGs, Ultima Online and EverQuest. Both had really solid undead mobs. Ultima Online...
The Daily Grind: Do you *really* want MMOs to be constantly changing and evolving?
On Napyet's podcast last year, I talked about the differences between SWGemu and SWG Legends, both Star Wars Galaxies emulators with very different goals....
The Daily Grind: How do you style your characters in MMOs?
Not every game has housing, usually for bad reasons. But the vast majority of games at this point do allow you to design your...
The Daily Grind: What is the most annoying MMO music track in existence?
As a fan of MMO music, I'm always in tune (har!) with how particular tracks can add or detract from certain zones and cities....
The Daily Grind: How do you stay in touch with your MMO friends outside of the game?
For some people, the answer to the question asked in the header is very simple: "I don't." And that's totally valid. Some people make...
The Daily Grind: How do you go about choosing your class in an MMO?
Friends, years ago I used to be the kind of MMO player who pored over every class description and skill layout. I'd wiggle into...
The Daily Grind: Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever played an MMO?
A few weeks ago, I logged into WoW Classic and was chatting with my guild when one of our community made a startling confession:...
The Daily Grind: How important are invisible zone lines in your MMO?
A while back, Pantheon promoted a player thread about zone lines, in which a Visionary Realms developer is paraphased as saying that the zone...
The Daily Grind: Do you plan your MMO play around bonus experience mechanics?
Rested experience mechanics are actually one of my favorite systems in online games. They've taken many forms over the years, from Ultima Online's power...
The Daily Grind: How much does freedom to experiment matter to you in an MMO?
I admit that I was never a huge fan of how easy resetting talents was after a point in World of Warcraft, but I...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs don’t love you back?
If you can excuse an abstract exercise in anthropomorphism, this morning I'd like to talk about how MMOs treat us. While these are games...
The Daily Grind: Is there any truly not-pay-to-win MMORPG out there?
Pay-to-win has become one of those phrases that has been used and overused so often that everyone's exhausted of the concept. Where once it...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most nitpicky criticism of an MMO you otherwise like?
As much as I do generally like Star Trek Online, there are problems with the game. Some of these are substantive problems, like how...
The Daily Grind: Are there any actually good MMO summer festivals?
I think we all know that MMO developers save their top-tier festival material for the one-two punch of Halloween and Christmas. And while that...
The Daily Grind: What’s the grindiest MMORPG still alive in 2021?
On last week's podcast, I joked that Albion Online's grind is deceptively short because once you get to what appears to be the outer...
The Daily Grind: How long do you want to wait between MMO patches?
Two hundred days and change. That's how long World of Warcraft players will have been waiting for the first big post-Shadowlands update by the...
The Daily Grind: What sort of character options do you gravitate toward in a new MMO?
Look, I consider myself a simple person with straightforward tastes. Give me a new MMO and I am going to go for dual-wielding swords....
The Daily Grind: What MMO class sings to you the most?
The other day I was watching a video in which the commenter noted that players should pick a class "that sings to you the...
The Daily Grind: Are you picking anything up in the Steam Summer Sale?
Steam's summer sale is upon us once again, this time with a bit of a choose-your-adventure theme. Steam always has a summer sale right...
