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]

Mourning.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the best at encouraging players to take on older content?

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Games don't usually need to do much to point players toward the new. If you're logging in to Guild Wars 2 when the new saga-story-season thinger...
roar?

The Daily Grind: What MMOs are in your backlog?

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Most all gamers know the bittersweet feeling that is to have a huge backlog of unplayed games thanks to seasonal sales and impulse purchases....

The Daily Grind: What’s the most obscure MMO you wish were still around?

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I bet you thought this post was gonna be about Zentia, since I loved that game and almost no one remembers it. But it's...
I've looked at clouds form one side now.

The Daily Grind: Do DPS numbers help you improve your play in an MMO?

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Let's be perfectly clear here, this question is not meant to be theoretical but personal. Whether or not DPS numbers should be in World of Warcraft...
Prepare for bear.

The Daily Grind: What little details delight you about WoW Classic?

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My WoW Classic guild is heavily weighted in favor of World of Warcraft veterans who think that we have seen and done it all...

The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever collected in an MMO?

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Back when original-flavor Star Wars Galaxies was alive, I had a bit of an obsession with Ubese shirts. Essentially, they were sleeveless undershirts that...

The Daily Grind: Did you ever skip any great MMOs to play something more popular?

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With WoW Classic in the news so much lately, I've been thinking back to 2004 when the original World of Warcraft launched. We've spent...
Da-boo-di.

The Daily Grind: What MMO would look the best with a cel-shaded style?

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I'm not really over Peria Chronicles, but one of the things that attracted my interest to the game was the loveliness of its cel-shaded graphics...

The Daily Grind: How have other MMO players amused you?

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I absolutely love the fact that massively multiplayer titles give me a social experience even when I'm in a room all by myself. Bumping...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish had an emulator – but doesn’t?

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A few weeks back, when The Matrix 4 news hit, I spent some time digging around The Matrix Online's community so that I could...
And if I press it enough time, sometimes there's a story!

The Daily Grind: Have queues ever turned you off from an MMO?

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Queues bother me. I'd like to say they don't, but they really do. I don't take them as a personal affront or anything, though;...

The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you got absolutely sucked into an MMO?

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I both love and hate those periods of time when I get sucked into an MMORPG. Usually this comes when a game first launches,...

The Daily Grind: Which class would you just love to port from one MMO to another?

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Earlier this summer, Standing Stone Game announced a brand-new and unique class for Dungeons and Dragons Online: the Alchemist. No, it's not just another...

The Daily Grind: What was the last MMO that you regretted quitting?

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Last spring, I made a hard call: I finally decided that I wasn't playing Ultima Online enough to justify a sub. That's not just...
Never mind, I'm not real!

The Daily Grind: How do you handle cancellations for MMOs you were looking forward to?

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I've been very open about my interest in Peria Chronicles basically from the start of its development, so the fact that it certainly appears to...

The Daily Grind: What’s the vibe that you want your MMO character to exude?

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Have you hugged your bread lately? No, that's not today's Daily Grind question, it's just the natural follow-up to witnessing the above picture from...
Misty.

The Daily Grind: Would you play Guild Wars 2 Classic?

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At the end of this week's podcast, Justin and I were chatting about Guild Wars 2's big announcement that's coming up later today, and...
Squirrel?!

The Daily Grind: What MMO do you not play but would still miss if it were gone?

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I don't play RIFT. I never had, and on the occasions when I have it's kind of just not been my thing. But I still...
Less of this and more lantern-y.

The Daily Grind: Are you up for a buy-to-play ArcheAge?

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Last week's news that ArcheAge is prepping a new buy-to-play, anti-pay-to-win server certainly caught a lot of our community's attention -- and divided its...

The Daily Grind: Did you fall for WoW Classic, and what do you think so far?

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They almost got me, but not in the end. Right around 3 p.m. yesterday, just before the servers went live, in spite of my...

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