Nope i didn’t it’s just not very appealing to me

Well, if you’ve never played Ultima Online, you really don’t have any reason to think the game wouldn’t appeal to you. You can download Ultima Online for free and play on free shards. What’s stopping you?

If you can get every skill, your character is exactly the same as everyone else when you have them all maxed out and you are as far from unique as possible.

Skills are only one aspect of the personalization paradigm. (Thought I’d sound smart.) Your list of features (or lack of features) doesn’t preclude the game from having twitch-dependent combat, adding “talent vs. skill” to the paradigm.. Since there are no gear restrictions, players would be free to wear whatever they want. Since there’s no crafting, specifically user-driven crafting, usable items such as dyes could be sold via vendors and such. No travel means that players can define their identity by the areas where they congregate a la street gangs. If everything’s soloable, then there’s an element of personal achievement and so new, tougher monsters can be added every now and then for another element of personalization. No online play would be Spore-like in that what you do is saved and uploaded later on, allowing players to make progress as they wish.

What you’ve listed actually seems to be a good start to designing a great game.

And, feel free to send fun ideas over. I’m still making an MMO, just for 38 Studios and not on my own.

The funny thing is tho, that up until point 5 you are describing the, imo, perfect MMO

What’s wrong with 5? You’ve never played Ultima Online?

daaang i fell for it so hard, i was already gathering links so you could see some neat ideas, like the “translation game” post at the Lost Garden blog… i’m not sure if i’m pissed :-p

in my culture, there aint Aprils Fool. *goes to vent somewhere else*

obey the fist!