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 still have any launch day characters in your MMOs?
One of the reasons that I always like going back to Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's the only MMO that I...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for playing on a potato?
I saw a thread on the MMORPG subreddit a while back asking about MMOs that function well on low-end machines, and I was actually...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO companies care about game preservation?
With game preservation back in the news thanks to Ubisoft's The Crew criming and the Stop Killing Games initiative, I thought it would be...
The Daily Grind: Has a survival sandbox ever really grabbed your attention?
Survival sandboxes are not MMORPGs, but they are online games, and so they occupy an odd middle space insofar as many of them feature...
The Daily Grind: Will Dune Awakening miss the popularity boost from the movies?
Timing, as they say, is everything -- and time doesn't seem to be on Dune Awakening's side, at least if Funcom wanted to get...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect...
The Daily Grind: What animal do you want to see in more MMOs?
Pangolins are the weirdest animals that sound like fantasy creatures except they're real animals in the real world. We need more of them in...
The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about SWTOR’s future?
We are in an interesting season with Star Wars: The Old Republic -- and no, I'm not talking about a PvP or Galactic Conquest...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the most generous login rewards?
Like probably everyone else paying even a tiny bit of attention to the MMO genre right now, I spent this past weekend logging into...
The Daily Grind: What are the most underrated and underutilized weapon types in MMORPGs?
Before it came to a close this year, I did some Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box with my kid, and I swung by...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best goats?
Goats are normal, serene, well-behaved animals, as you can tell from the line of games simulating their existence in complete fidelity to reality. And...
The Daily Grind: What does your ideal space sim MMO look like?
Even a quarter-century into the MMORPG revolution, we still haven't seen an interstellar MMO that really fits what I'm seeking in a space sim....
The Daily Grind: Are you a map completionist in MMOs?
A few weeks ago, my husband was playing Guild Wars 2, and suddenly he sat back and declared that he'd finally, after all these...
The Daily Grind: What challenge in an MMORPG resulted in your most shameful string of deaths?
Hello, my name is Eliot, and back when City of Heroes launched the character I made at launch 20 years ago could not kill...
The Daily Grind: Do you avoid base-building in survival MMOs?
Listening to some of the recent development chatter surrounding Funcom's Dune Awakening, I was reminded that this survival MMO had bases -- ones which...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘old-school’ MMORPGs?
One of the topics that comes up every year come award time is how we decided which MMORPGs are old enough - whether by...
The Daily Grind: What’s your biggest complaint about mobile MMOs?
A few weeks back, we covered the launch of Dofus Touch, and I'm gonna be honest, it looks freakin' adorable. Ankama is a super...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the coziest inns?
Look, it's time to accept and understand a fundamental truth about Star Wars: The Old Republic, perhaps the game's greatest failing. Cantinas? Not comfy....
The Daily Grind: What’s the 2024 expansion that has you the most excited?
While the launch dates for upcoming MMORPGs are a tricky and uncertain affair, what's more assured is an array of expansions that are on...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most frustrating misperception the general public has about MMORPGs?
MOP reader Orca7 tipped us a funny piece from The Onion from last week that reminds me MMORPGs are still not regarded in the...
