New game possibility

[Silver Adept]

You see, most people when doing an MMO are inclined to think of it in building it like an MMO, so open-ended story, no real progerss other than that of levels, occasional quests here and there, and the like.

When people start making games that have a strong storyline to them, or introduce rumors as part of the game, drawing the player in with something more than just the hunt for the next level or rare item, (although, as we saw, the rare item hunter can be useful, too) then they have a good game on their hands. You just have to storyboard the game so that instead of the party being controlled by one player, it's controlled by multiple players.

I still think .hack could be easily done as an MMO, especially since the code in the games already can probably just be tweaked so that it really does work as an MMO.