How could a new MMO thrive?

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Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It can't be a business tho. There is no money in developing a AAA cutting edge mmorpg in the age of the 5 second attention span.

We need an eccentric billionaire not named asshole, to just hire a team to build a balanced D&D style game mechanics with AI-directed mobs that will not just spawn in the same place and path the same way, because they learn to avoid you. Then, buy the IP from Dark Paw Holding Company and Warehousing and charge people a 20 dollar a month donation, and hire actual gm's to ban any meta gamers, and botting, and any monetization.

Like the Grateful Dead, it will have a ferocious fan base, and will attract multiple generations of curious people, who will often get hooked too.

But it can't be a business.

No i mean like a fully functioning world where every NPC has the freedom to become whatever it wants and you compete with them by trying to earn money doing labor or jobs (often for AI NPCs that are better and faster and smarter than you) and collecting currency for the economic system that you can spend to activate mini games or other crafted in game products and your character ages like real life and dies and when you log in you have no memory of the real world.