the daily grind

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]

So here's the deal.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO are you most nostalgic for?

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I'll admit it, I'm an absolute fool for nostalgia. Things that I loved in the past can still bring a warm glow to my...

The Daily Grind: When was the last time you played a ‘dead’ MMO

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Earlier this week, I trolled myself by picking up the charity Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. I say I trolled myself because...
Come on, man.

The Daily Grind: Which long-in-testing MMOs should just toughen up and launch already?

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I like a lot of the stuff that Warframe does, but it still sparks anger in me when someone reminds me that the game is technically...

The Daily Grind: Do MMO studios favor console or PC players more?

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Here's a topic that I'm torn on answering definitively because I think it changes from studio to studio when it comes to prioritizing the...
I'm going to master letting this play instead of me.

The Daily Grind: Do you bother reporting miscreants in MMORPGs?

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Retired MOP writer and all around epic human Mike Foster (yo Mike!) recently tweeted about his days working as a GM for World of...
Let's dig our way out!

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG sees the most multiboxing as of 2020?

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A couple of months ago, I read a post on the Nomadic Gamers, Eh! blog where Stargrace begins her post talking about multboxing in...
Sometimes the game hates you trying to understand it.

The Daily Grind: What’s the most irritating bit of MMO randomness you’ve dealt with?

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I've frequently said that Final Fantasy XI influenced a lot of my later feelings on MMOs, and this is also true of the crafting. For...

The Daily Grind: Which lowbie MMO alt have you enjoyed playing the most?

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Looking back over all of the characters that I've made in MMOs, I've probably spent half my time on low-level alts that never went...

The Daily Grind: What was the last ‘new’ thing you learned about an MMO you’ve played a long time?

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So I've been playing SWG Legends about two years now, and yet I'm constantly learning things that are completely new to me. For example,...
Bork.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO antagonists do you still fondly remember?

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For some reason, even in the earlier years of World of Warcraft, my favorite antagonists were never the big villains that were supposedly built up...

The Daily Grind: Would you do MMO quests if they didn’t offer rewards?

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Does everything we do in an MMORPG have to be motivated by a reward? I was thinking about that the other day in Lord...

The Daily Grind: Are gaming subs due for a comeback?

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When I first started at Massively-that-was, over 10 years ago now, I remember it being a crash-course not in MMOs, which I knew backward...
Or not. We could not.

The Daily Grind: What was the most disappointing MMO launch you’ve ever experienced?

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I'm pretty sure that yes, Phantasy Star Online 2 is the worst and most disappointing MMO launch I've ever gone through. That means that it's...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?

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A few weeks back, I was swapping my SWG Legends character to a new class when my five-year-old daughter started begging me to swap...

The Daily Grind: Helmet on, helmet off?

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It's the perennial question of MMORPG characters: Do you wear a helmet or not? This may be a trickier question than it first seems. Avatar...

The Daily Grind: Should gamers be entitled to jump MMO queues if they sub?

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The launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor this week was a bit of a bungle, though not one we've never seen before. Launching MMOs...
That's not a doll, guy.

The Daily Grind: What are the MMO starting zones that feel most welcoming to you?

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To this day, there is no starting zone in any MMO that has felt as warm and welcoming to me as Ronfaure in Final Fantasy...

The Daily Grind: What MMO content are you totally sick of doing?

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The other day I was questing my way through the Shire in Lord of the Rings Online and chatting to my kinship about how...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is most in need of a major quality-of-life overhaul?

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MOP reader Ashfyn recently made an offhand comment about quality-of-life upgrades in MMOs that caught my attention. " was a my favorite game back...

The Daily Grind: How do you feel about offline play in MMORPGs?

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I spend a... lot of time in Star Wars Galaxies on the SWG Legends rogue server. I poke fun at myself for this, but...

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