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: Are starter bundles a bad thing for free-to-play MMOs?
The other day, I was talking with a friend who raised an interesting point that's still sticking in my head. She was talking about...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would make for a great movie or miniseries?
MMORPGs crossing over into other entertainment mediums isn't unknown to us at this point, of course. There was that Warcraft movie that one time....
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO paradigm shift you didn’t see coming a decade ago?
One thing I'm particularly proud of is that the MOP staff and MMO community - then on old Massively - were waaaaay out in...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite empty, neglected zone in an MMORPG?
Since dipping my toe back into classic Guild Wars last month for the anniversary fun, I took myself on a wee tour of some...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO-specific meme?
Playing lots of MMOs can help you understand the discourse around them... which, as often as not, is crouched deep in the language of...
The Daily Grind: Does MMO inventory weight add immersion?
In a recent Pantheon developer livestream, the team announced that it was going to give coins in the game weight to add to the...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios be more transparent about population stats?
Some of our staff were idly chatting about Wargaming's playerbase this week when MOP's Ben chimed in with a link to the official World...
The Daily Grind: What false MMO rumor did you totally buy into at one point?
In Final Fantasy XI, all Goblin enemies have an ability called Bomb Toss. It hurts your entire party a fair amount when it hits,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best Necromancer class?
Do you like to play with dead things? Heck, who doesn't? It's one of the most well-adjusted activities that any person can do while...
The Daily Grind: Is there a specific point in an MMO’s development when you know it’s doomed?
I was tabbing back through one of my favorite Old Massively columns when I bumped into this quote and had to go look up...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to play if you’re totally broke?
A while back I saw an interesting thread on the Guild Wars 2 Reddit, in which the player was asking whether he was missing...
The Daily Grind: How good are you at spacing out your MMO content consumption?
I know people in Final Fantasy XIV who have already finished getting all of their Skysteel Tools fully upgraded. This is, in and of...
The Daily Grind: Do you play the MMO fashion wars?
I care about how I look. Obviously not in a real life, because I've chosen to be a short, lumpy gnome of questionable heritage,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you let your own kids play?
A while back, in the long long ago when we could still talk to humans in person, I was chatting with the mom of...
The Daily Grind: Which of your MMO characters has kept the same look for the longest time?
One of my Death Knights in World of Warcraft has had the same outfit for years. It basically hasn't budged since Cataclysm, and I...
The Daily Grind: When have you felt like an idiot in an MMO?
While I'm sure that you have it all together and project the infallible air of someone who strides with the greatest of purpose, there's...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been harassed in an MMO?
Riot's Valorant made headlines this past weekend, and not entirely for reasons Riot would've liked, when multiple Riot devs spoke up about harassment they've...
The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMORPG-related subreddits?
If you don't read much Reddit, you might be unaware that the one most squarely on point with our genre, /r/MMORPG, had a bit...
The Daily Grind: Are free-to-play MMOs slower when it comes to advancement?
As free-to-play became the dominant business model in MMOs over time, it was totally understandable to wonder at first what free-to-play games would do...
The Daily Grind: What elements feel out of place in your MMO?
I'm generally a flexible person when it comes to encountering a variety of fictional worlds, but I do expect the creators to be internally...
