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: Would you give an MMO as a gift to someone?
Video games as gifts are a tradition that stretches back into the era of the NES, when that was basically how you got new...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever gotten married online in a game?
As we continue with our next round of "Never Have I Ever," I'll throw this one out to you: Never have I ever gotten...
The Daily Grind: Do you pine for a lost era of a specific MMO?
A few weeks back, I saw a Reddit thread from a fellow MMO gamer who missed a specific version of Guild Wars 2. "Players...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever tried to get your money back from an MMO Kickstarter?
We're all clear on the fact that at this point Kickstarted MMOs do not have a great track record, right? For every Elite: Dangerous...
The Daily Grind: Outside of superhero MMOs, which game has the best visual customization?
Not all MMORPGs are created equal, and some offer far better fashion and visual customization options than others. Even so, games with more limited...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever visited a memorial in an MMO?
I was strolling around the PvP areas on Dathomir on SWG Legends the other day and a stumbled into a building that was clearly...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a favorite MMO PvP moment?
There was a fun thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit a while back that really made me miss solid MMORPG PvP. A player...
The Daily Grind: Has the Crucible pull-back affected your thoughts on New World?
Here's the thing: I have definitely not been on the hype train for Amazon's New World for a variety for reasons. But with the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your go-to MMO for quick gaming sessions?
The other day in the MOP virtual office, Chris and I were talking about how we're kind of glad to see Torchlight 3 appear...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG do you wish were on mobile?
Remember way back in the day when Guild Wars 2 was supposed to get a mobile version? It never did, and whatever mobile toy...
The Daily Grind: What systems do you avoid learning properly in MMOs?
Enhancement Diversification in City of Heroes was meant to break some degenerate enhancement effects, but it also meant that you had to think a...
The Daily Grind: What does World of Warcraft actually do well?
We all know that World of Warcraft gets its fair share of criticism and grumpy rants, particularly in this Battle for Azeroth era. And...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about Reddit’s new toxicity policy in relation to gaming?
Yesterday, Reddit went on a tear banning 2000 of the most toxic subs across the platform and instituting a new content policy and enforcement...
The Daily Grind: Would we all be better off without MMO wikis and guides?
A few weeks ago, there was a supremely contentious thread on the MMORPG subreddit, one so contentious that the original poster deleted the thread...
The Daily Grind: Do you watch developer videos for MMOs?
Covering videos in this job is just plain annoying. It is. An information-dense text post takes me a few minutes to read through, I...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do scripting well?
In the land between dynamic or reactive content and stock-still NPCs spitting out quest text boxes in MMOs is the creative use of scripting...
The Daily Grind: How did your early MMOs shape your expectations for the MMOs you play now?
I was chatting with MOP reader and commenter Bruno Brito a while back when something he said about player expectations in MMOs struck me....
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are unlikely to survive 2020?
The thing about surprising MMO shutdowns is that they're just that: surprising. No one expected to lose City of Heroes when we did, even if...
The Daily Grind: What are the coolest MMO alien races?
OK, for today's topic, we're going to be limiting ourselves strictly to scifi MMORPGs (sorry fantasy, you'll have to settle for pretty much 95%...
The Daily Grind: Are we plagued by a ‘video game culture reset’?
Author and academic Ian Bogost recently tweeted something that struck me, particularly since it's a topic I harp on all the time. "Video-game culture resets...
