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]
the daily grind
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would be most improved by an engine overhaul in 2025?
On MOP, we can seldom go a single day without someone in the comments wondering when a specific MMO will get an engine upgrade...
The Daily Grind: How much do you care about getting through your MMO backlog?
The idea of a gaming backlog is not a new one and not at all uncommon even among MMO players, or so I'm led...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most hated cosmetic item in an MMORPG?
The great thing about the plethora of fashion options in Final Fantasy XIV is that no matter how you want your character to look on...
The Daily Grind: Is there a genuine hunger out there for good new MMORPGs?
It was encouraging to read Fantastic Pixel Castle's Greg Street write up a manifesto (of sorts) about why he and his team are driven...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best mascot?
A recent Black Desert tweet using the creepy Black Spirit mascot got me wondering why more MMOs don't have mascots. I mean, BDO deploys...
The Daily Grind: What do you consider the most annoying part of survival sandboxes?
Some people love survival sandboxes and some people do not, but today's Daily Grind is not about that. No matter how much you love...
The Daily Grind: Are you pro-cape or anti-cape in MMOs?
One of the fascinating bits of City of Heroes' history is that this superhero MMO originally launched without the ability to equip capes to...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO that people are sleeping on?
I would like to think that most of our readers are familiar with lots of MMORPGs, seeing as they read about them here. But...
The Daily Grind: How do you manage your MMORPG alts?
You might not know this about me, but I'm a bit of a spreadsheet junkie. I have spreadsheets for literally everything, especially for my...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite toy in an MMORPG?
When the first expansion for World of Warcraft introduced flight form for Druids, people discovered a number of "bombing" techniques in which Druids could fly...
The Daily Grind: How do you best like to contribute to an MMO group?
When I was in fifth grade, we had a huge "war" of freeze tag that went on every recess break for a couple months....
The Daily Grind: Does your MMORPG friend list look like a graveyard?
A throwaway comment on Reddit the other day made me vicariously sad: A player named IVRYN posted about "those dudes you have on your...
The Daily Grind: Which older MMORPG do you think has aged the worst?
I have openly never been a big fan of EverQuest, but I also have to say that as MMORPGs go, it's one that has aged really...
The Daily Grind: If you had only 15 minutes to play your MMO, what would you do?
Time is a precious commodity for all of us -- and there never seems to be enough for all we want to do. This...
The Daily Grind: Do you remember your very first mount in an MMORPG?
In response to one of our articles on Villagers and Heroes, MOP reader Wishful Maybe remarked on the game's age, saying, "I still remember...
The Daily Grind: What MMO lives rent-free in your head – but in a good way?
Way back in 2022, I posted a Daily Grind about MMOs that live rent-free in our heads - the negative kind, the kind "eating...
The Daily Grind: What’s the MMORPG accomplishment that you’re proudest to show off?
Video games, for better or for worse, are kind of inevitably an achievement-based medium. We do stuff in them and then we want to...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been shamed out of an MMO because of a breach of unknown etiquette?
The other day I was doing a little homework reading about an MMO and stumbled upon a chunky section dealing with proper etiquette. And...
The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal gateway game for MMORPGs?
If you're a veteran MMORPG player, it's pretty likely that you came to MMORPGs through one of a handful of ways that I can...
The Daily Grind: What ‘bad’ build have you loved the most in an MMORPG?
Some players in Final Fantasy XI loved running around as a Warrior/White Mage. It's like being a Paladin without being a Paladin! Except it actually...
