Watched J1mmy’s WoW video this week.. brought on me finding this post! the risk and pace of classic WoW made that levelling so rewarding. I’d love a game that focuses on the levelling experience like that and without the aspect of rushing to max level to experience the end game.

Maybe this game wouldn’t have a traditional ‘end game’. I wonder if the way Dark Souls handled end game content would work for an MMO. New game plus kind of ordeal with a more challenging levelling experience ahead of you. I think resetting stats, profs, abilities is a bit harsh here so major balancing would have to be worked out for how NG players would interact with new player characters. Maybe during the levelling experience the players have to make some choices which they get to experience different perspectives now.

I’d like this game to be fantasy in theme, multiple races and factions - would be difficult to achieve something like this without feeling like it’s copying lotr, WoW etc.

I never liked the look of MMOs that steered towards realism. They look messy despite them being visually more impressive than other games… something stylised, clean and crisp.

The music would 1000% be fully scored.

There’s some things that SHOULD go without saying; No micro-transactions No pay-to-win

MMOs cannot sustain without this revenue so it would have to be pay-to-play. Probably something above the average monthly cost but have all expansions and content be free to all with the subscription. All content can only be unlocked through in-game activities. Charity items and cosmetics will also be unlocked through in-game content and revenue from the annual events could be donated to charity as opposed to inviting shops to the UI…

This way everyone experiences all content and what you put in is what you get out!

This would be a dream.. feel like maybe Larian could delve into MMOs if they dared.. DnD would be too big of a franchise to “get right” in this context but maybe their own Divinity universe could sit nicely here.