What IP would make a great MMO?

Well World

Blade Runner

Mad Max. I want Auto Assault back! So much fun wrecking entire cities with your weaponized car. It was a shallow game, lots of stuff wrong with it, but I feel the post-apocalyptic, motorized theme has not been fully explored yet. Especially the Motorized part.

Wheel of time, could make it into a 3 Faction game a la DAoC, with Aes Sedai, Darkfriends/Forsaken and Children of the Light.

Game of Thrones, could make that into a 131-faction MMO.

127.0.0.1

alternatively, South Park

Elidroth said:

Curious what people think exists for a known IP that would make a great MMO? Something that would be familiar enough to engage people but not so familiar that the 'canon' people would flip out every time something changed even slightly..

Some of my ideas would be:
Ready Player One
Xanth
World of Darkness (tried, but CCP imploded)
Wheel of Time?

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The emerging prevalence of a stylized 80s aesthetic leads me to a couple badass conclusions:

The Neverending Story
Masters of The Universe
Jim Henson universe - Dark Crystal/Labyrinth

Between Stranger Things and Thor: Ragnarok we are in the early stages of a major 80s cultural revival. If a company could get one of these IPs out in the next 5 years they'd make bank.

There's no studio in existence today that can take a well-established IP (especially a literary one) and produce an MMO from it that's anything more than a pathetic cashgrab.

uniqueuser said:

There's no studio in existence today that can take a well-established IP (especially a literary one) and produce an MMO from it that's anything more than a pathetic cashgrab.

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I bet CD Projekt Red could. Rockstar too.

I always thought Wheel of Time would make a good MMO as there is already a well fleshed out class system and various races with tons of lore to draw on.

How has no one mentioned Pokemon yet?

a_skeleton_03 said:

The Deathgate Cycle books.

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I'd forgotten about the Deathgate Cycle. That would be a great setting.

Treesong said:

Mad Max. I want Auto Assault back! So much fun wrecking entire cities with your weaponized car. It was a shallow game, lots of stuff wrong with it, but I feel the post-apocalyptic, motorized theme has not been fully explored yet. Especially the Motorized part.

Wheel of time, could make it into a 3 Faction game a la DAoC, with Aes Sedai, Darkfriends/Forsaken and Children of the Light.

Game of Thrones, could make that into a 131-faction MMO.

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AA was such garbage quality though. I got one of the first tanks in the game. Problem was, it had such low tq it literally couldn't climb any grade. Went into a base in the middle of a valley and couldn't escape it. Had to abandon the tank.

Fallout is the only mmo I want to see.

Base building, harvesting resources for food, water and bullets, gun crafting etc.

Mutant, ghoul, bandit and brotherhood of steel quests, raids and PvP.

Strongholds to defend and conquer for easier trading and safety from the wastelands undesirables.

Play as a mutant, human, synth or ghoul.

My God...

I dunno, new MMO's all start to feel kinda samish once they have been through the balancing grinder

Palum said:

AA was such garbage quality though. I got one of the first tanks in the game. Problem was, it had such low tq it literally couldn't climb any grade. Went into a base in the middle of a valley and couldn't escape it. Had to abandon the tank.

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Absolutely. After release, the vehicles needed a lot of work, but the game pretty much was abandoned by the devs right after. One thing I hated was how the car engines sounded, very anemic. I had a pretty rare racecar type chassis with a pretty badass engine but the thing sounded like a hairblower.

But I just loved how everything you shot at smashed to bits, with all the shiny loot flying around you. Oh, the abundance of loot. Unifinished, unbalanced, zero direction. I think it lasted a little over a year, I think no other MMO got the plug pulled so fast. Maybe Earth and Beyond.

a_skeleton_03 said:

The Deathgate Cycle books.

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Solid series. Half the playerbase would be magic dance fighting though! The other half would be badass Tattooed warriors. But it would be neat to have a whole expansion to be to get out of the maze. You could enter it whenever you wanted, but you couldn't leave without finishing it!

The Magician series by Raymond E. Feist could also be a decent MMO world.

The blue adept series by Piers Anthony, could be interesting if they could figure out a way to juxtapose the science and magic worlds without cheesing them too much. Deathgate cycle would be interesting: Labyrinth raids!