Best community-centric social mmo, perhaps simulation mmo, but most certainly virtual online massively-multiplayer game (not rpg) is Salem.  Themeparks are for the lazy. 

Lets be honest, WOW's success is mostly timing and Luck.  It is a good game, but it is not necessarialy better than many of the games it beat.  Being the focus of a South Park episode, with over 3million viewers, certainly gave them quite a boost.  

Originally posted by BadSpock

I think it'd be really funny to create a real simulation MMO.

Have to log in and drink water/eat a couple of times a day or eventually you die (permadeath)

Have to log in and find somewhere safe to sleep for the night and wait till morning to wake up (in game) and play again (or you eventually die, with permadeath)

Have it take 6-7 months to cross from one side of a continent to another (and you'll probably die (permadeath) along the way)

etc. etc.

Suspend reality to create a good GAME.

GAME.

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lol

hahaha .. yeah.

The good devs know how to focus on the core game, and forget all the non-fun "realistic" stuff. If i get my wish, MMOs will be more like co-op, well designed fun GAMES wtih large amount of content, instead of an inconvenient, frustrating virtual world.

Originally posted by BadSpock

I think it'd be really funny to create a real simulation MMO.

Have to log in and drink water/eat a couple of times a day or eventually you die (permadeath)

Have to log in and find somewhere safe to sleep for the night and wait till morning to wake up (in game) and play again (or you eventually die, with permadeath)

Have it take 6-7 months to cross from one side of a continent to another (and you'll probably die (permadeath) along the way)

etc. etc.

Suspend reality to create a good GAME.

GAME.

G

A

M

E

lol

Are you suggesting that nobody would play a game like the one you described ?

Because that sounds suspicously like the gameplay in DayZ, lol

Originally posted by SpottyGekko

Originally posted by BadSpock

I think it'd be really funny to create a real simulation MMO.

Have to log in and drink water/eat a couple of times a day or eventually you die (permadeath)

Have to log in and find somewhere safe to sleep for the night and wait till morning to wake up (in game) and play again (or you eventually die, with permadeath)

Have it take 6-7 months to cross from one side of a continent to another (and you'll probably die (permadeath) along the way)

etc. etc.

Suspend reality to create a good GAME.

GAME.

G

A

M

E

lol

Are you suggesting that nobody would play a game like the one you described ?

Because that sounds suspicously like the gameplay in DayZ, lol

It works in DayZ because survival is the game. If leveling was the game or questing was the game then these features would be rather annoying to most. That's something that a lot of the Kitchen Sink Online folks tend to forget.

then why cafe world and cityville (browser games) are so succesfully ???