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Filed under: Fantasy , Bugs , Business Models , Economy , Events (Real-World) , Game Mechanics , MMO Industry , News Items , Opinion , Free-to-Play , The Daily Grind , Miscellaneous , Diablo III , Neverwinter In the last few weeks, two big games we cover on Massively have been slammed with exploits that have injured their respective economies: Diablo III and Neverwinter . In Diablo III’s case, a gold duping bug apparently pumped insane amounts of cash into the economy. And as reported by players, Neverwinter exploits run the gamut from Foundry abuses to negative auction hall bids that don’t consume gold to classes that can one-shot bosses making farming trivial.

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The Daily Grind: When are rollbacks and wipes absolutely necessary?

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Filed under: Fantasy , Culture , MMO Industry , News Items , Opinion , Free-to-Play , The Daily Grind , RIFT If you’d missed it, RIFT recently announced that the game will go free-to-play on June 12th. Obviously, the hope is to bring in a variety of new players, but the circumstances surrounding the announcement can result in a bit of whiplash when deciding whether or not to count yourself among those getting into the game.

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The Daily Grind: Are you still excited to try RIFT’s free-to-play option?

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Filed under: Fantasy , MMO Industry , New Titles , Trading Card Games , Miscellaneous , Crowdfunding HEX: Shards of Fate , the MMO trading card game that we first introduced last week , is doing fairly well in its current Kickstarter campaign.

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MMOTCG HEX doubles Kickstarter goal with 3 weeks left

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Filed under: Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Miscellaneous Character animations seem to be only noticed when they don’t come off right. It’s often a matter of subjective opinion whether or not these animations are pleasing or jarring, of course, but the fact remains that animations that don’t meet players’ standards are the target of long, long-winded rants.

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The Daily Grind: Which game has the best character animations?

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Filed under: Culture , Game Mechanics , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Miscellaneous Back in the day, combat in MMOs was nice and sedate.

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The Daily Grind: Do you like the increasing trend of active combat in MMOs?

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Culture , MMO Industry , Opinion , Free-to-Play , The Daily Grind , Star Wars: The Old Republic , Music You know what sucks? Hearing a cool piece of game music and having no idea what it’s called or where to hear it again, that’s what. I mean, it sucks in a first-world-problems sort of way, but still

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The Daily Grind: Have you ever been sidetracked by game music?

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Filed under: Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Miscellaneous You’ve got nothing else to do on a lazy Saturday. You’ve got plenty of food and beverages, a comfortable seat, and a burning desire to get something accomplished in your game of choice. So you settle down, you log in, and you start running around and getting stuff done

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The Daily Grind: How long can you play a game in one sitting?

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Filed under: Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Miscellaneous If there’s one staple that MMOs share with other video games, it’s that fighting tends to be a mostly bloodless and gore-free affair. Sure, sometimes a daring game might throw in blood fireworks that erupt in the air to signify that you’re doing some damage, but you and your enemy will appear in model health until one of you keels over from invisible wounds. Of course, as time progresses and technology gives us terrific marvels, there’s the potential for games to start showing more and more wounds on our characters

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The Daily Grind: Should MMOs keep the gore on the down-low?

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Filed under: Classes , Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind Having started to play a Necromancer in Guild Wars 2 lately, I’ve been thinking about how odd it is that some MMO classes are kind of, well, evil. Or at least really, really gross, unless you think that playing with corpses is something a normal, well-adjusted citizen does.

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The Daily Grind: Do you avoid ‘evil’ classes?

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Filed under: Culture , Guilds , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Miscellaneous Guilds break up. Just like bands, it’s a sad reality. Sometimes they just slowly drift apart because some people are leaving The Secret World and other members are developing differing interests, so the guild shuts down with no animosity

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The Daily Grind: What was the worst guild meltdown you’ve ever seen?

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