Welcome to Gaia! ::

The family jewels... Tee Hee.

They're slowly but surely turning this place into an MMORPG

Aye but without any of the fees.

...yet.

True.

What Gaia needs is somthing else, something that really shakes it off its feet... Something that makes the immature, stupid population of Gaia (All 99.9% of it) stop posting so damn much.

I believe the whole thing will be coded in... FLASH, and that for any gaming type thing with a modicum of ambition fails horribly and painfully. Let alone something like a Gaia MMRPG. So, unless the developers have a couple of ultra l33t developers (and not just php), I don't know what will come out.

Adventure Quest http://www.battleon.com/ is probably the way it will be... an online thing made in Flash which is, frankly, rubbish. When what they should have done is code something proper like Maple Story http://www.mapleglobal.com/ and use the Gaia avatars as animated sprites. And while they're at it, try to sell it to the Koreans (which is the MMO equivalent of selling coal to Newcastle, but can be worth a try if they make lots of pointlessly cute critters in it).

Actually, Gunbound IS Korean, and the economy follows one of the Korean models for MMRPG's. Make it free, but make people pay real cash for items. They're perfectly fine with that, and so are the Japanese. The Americans aren't because they're twats and scum (and kids without access to credit cards). The same model works with games like online anime golf PangYa http://www.pangya.com/english/ and it's perfectly fine. Especially since the best items are only bought using the game currency, rather than real money (that means that the coolest golf club set - the medieval weapons clubs, and the cute witch caddy are beyond my reach crying ).

Breaking the home system? Korea has a dedicated 12 megabit internet system for chrissake, and they're bloody machines anyway (dying over counterstrike, hahaha). Both Blizard and Arenanet were wise enough to sell World of Warcraft and Guild Wars to them, to make sure they're entirely successful. And now they're reaping the rewards of a stupidly dedicated hardcore community.

And you'd think they'd actually let Koreans play alongside the US? That would totally ******** up the servers to kingdom come. Let alone the language issues.

I just talked about the Gaia co. farming Gaia to a separate identical system to Korea, so that they become bloody rich out of it thanks to kids with access to credit cards.