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]

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The Daily Grind: Do you have any love for jumping puzzles in MMOs?

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It's hard for me to be sure exactly when MMOs decided that jumping puzzles were the thing to include as an option. Guild Wars 2 certainly...
Oh, please be all right.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO took the most effort to click with you?

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I think that many of us MMO veterans have a story or two in our past that involves not getting a game the first...
My God, it's full of nonsense.

The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO newbie experience that you powered through anyway?

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Earlier this week, Justin mentioned that he was toying around in classic EverQuest, and he said he was playing through the tutorial. That surprised...
Flexin'

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the biggest homogeneity problem with outfits?

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Every MMO has a certain upper limit on how many different outfits you can come up with. That's just the reality. And some games...
GO LEFT YOU IDIOT

The Daily Grind: Are you looking forward or backward with your MMO picks?

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We do find ourselves in a very strange time to be MMO players. While there are plenty of titles in development and early access,...
This is fine.

The Daily Grind: Who the heck are you people who buy stuff for MMOs you can’t play yet?

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I gotta know this. Who the heck are you people who buy stuff for MMOs you can't play yet? Star Citizen, Ashes of Creation, ships,...

The Daily Grind: How bad are delays for MMOs, and how much does communication help?

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Last week, a newly minted Ship of Heroes fan posted a comment on the game's official forums saying he'd studied in-development MMOs and settled...
ROBOT ROCK - wait, can't play that song.

The Daily Grind: Have any of your MMO accounts ever been hacked?

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For all I know, all of my authenticators are just placebos; I've never actually had an account get hacked. There are accounts I've lost...
Somebody pull.

The Daily Grind: Why are you still an MMORPG fan?

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No, MMOs aren't dead. I just want to put that out there; there are millions of us still playing them, dozens (if not hundreds)...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been to a concert in an MMO?

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Slightly embarrassing story time: One of my favorite things to do in classic Star Wars Galaxies was sing. Yes, musicians and dancers were technically...

Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype

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If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring. I started thinking a bit about this last week...
THE LAW

The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs that turn you off just based on history?

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We were having an interesting discussion in work chat the other day about EVE Online involving Brendan and me. Brendan, obviously, is the expert on...

The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs for ambient sociability?

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In my gaming time, I switch back and forth between MMOs and solo games (often adventure or RPGs) quite often. When I'm in the...

The Daily Grind: Do you trust companies selling ‘games as a service’?

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MUD and MMO players are pretty much the original victims of "games as a service" mentality. News that Nintendo is shutting down the Wii...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best example of wasted aesthetics in an MMO?

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If you somehow missed our award for meme of year, now's a good time to trot it back out because it could so apply...
Warping shadow.

The Daily Grind: When did you realize you were no longer a beginner in an MMO?

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I tend to think of myself as a beginner in any given MMO for a really long time. Like, to the point where I'll have...
Roguish.

The Daily Grind: Do you find it hard to connect with pre-established MMO characters?

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One of the hallmarks of MMORPGs is the freedom for players to create the kind of character that they want, from race to looks...

The Daily Grind: Do you approach all MMOs with PvP as ‘PvP games’?

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I saw a thought-provoking exchange on Reddit this week that's too good to sit on. It was in a thread for an MMORPG in...
Yes, we're all very impressed over here.

The Daily Grind: How much should fan communities influence MMO designers?

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The other day I saw a comment on an MMO subreddit that I quite liked; to paraphrase, it basically stated that the system designers...
I don't know why Blizzard gave us the reaction image for this.

The Daily Grind: What do you want out of World of Warcraft’s next expansion?

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It's no secret that player engagement with World of Warcraft is down across the board, with even some of its most vocal supporters acknowledging...

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