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: Do you play on your MMO’s public test server?
ArcheAge has the honor of inspiring today's Daily Grind, as I was writing a piece about ArcheAge's next update coming to the PTS and...
The Daily Grind: How do you keep yourself occupied during MMO content droughts?
Sooner or later, every MMO seems to dip into a lengthy period of little to no development -- otherwise known as a "content drought."...
The Daily Grind: What ‘lost’ content from your favorite MMO do you wish would be restored?
A while back, YouTuber Wooden Potatoes did a video invoking the "Guild Wars 2 graveyard" of lost profession skills. I... love stuff like this,...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite crowd control class in MMORPGs?
I know that crowd controllers as a standalone class have long since fallen out of fashion - most MMORPG players don't even remember when...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMO quests you refuse to do?
Today's Daily Grind comes to us courtesy of MOP's Carlo, who is really not about this one quest in Black Desert.
"So I'm questing in...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best playable cat race?
Despite the very real evidence that a feline lurks somewhere in my home, I am not what you would call a cat person. I...
The Daily Grind: What MMO really shouldn’t attempt a classic server?
Back in August, Standing Stone Games told players to stop trying to make a classic Lord of the Rings Online server happen. It is...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst mount in all of MMO land?
During the MOP Podcast at the top of September, Justin and I answered a fun question from Aldristravan about terrible MMO mounts. It turned...
The Daily Grind: What does your gaming space look like?
Oh, I'd love to have rocket recliners and popcorn dispensers at hand, but the truth is that my gaming space is pretty tame. I...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 295: Reveals and roadmaps
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW Classic and Shadowlands, Blizzard's Q3, The Wagadu Chronicles, EverQuest II, and Elyon, with a Daily Grind Blitz and a pair of mailbag voicemails on starting out in WoW and subbing to MMOs.
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about character boosting in MMOs?
To clarify right off the bat, I don't meant elo boosting as in MOBAs; I mean using character boosts, either paid or otherwise, in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best ‘affordable’ MMO?
We're fast approaching the end of 2020, which means we'll be cranking up our end-of-the-year machine with some of our recurring pieces. One of...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever gotten into MMO lore speculation?
When you play Star Wars: The Old Republic, there is a certain sort of lore speculation that holds that in 3000 years none of this...
The Daily Grind: What MMO boss quote can’t you get out of your head?
There's one thing to be said about running the same dungeons and fighting the same bosses in MMORPGs repeatedly: You absolutely end up memorizing...
The Daily Grind: What does the future of (World of) Warcraft look like?
Usually, Activision-Blizzard investor calls are boring as heck and I wish I didn't have to sit through all the Call of Duty and Candy...
Massively Overthinking: Doing crimes and getting punished in MMORPGs
A couple of weeks before Dual Universe's snafu banning beta players for taking advantage of a developer's poorly permissioned structure, I saw the game's...
The Daily Grind: What non-MMO games scratch an MMO itch for you?
Genshin Impact is multiplayer, but it skews closer to a single-player game during much of the moment-to-moment gameplay. However, I still find that to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the point of collecting MMO vanity pets?
In my book, there are two types of MMO players. No, it's not warlords and carebears. It's not even subbers versus freebies. The only...
The Daily Grind: Is the ‘forever game’ philosophy healthy for MMOs?
A few weeks back, Remnant from the Ashes creative director David Adams did an interview on Gamasutra where he discussed how his team very...
The Daily Grind: If a different studio could remake your favorite MMO, which one would you pick?
MOP reader Bruno recently tweeted me a topic so great I begged him to let me pitch it to all of you. He was...
