1)  I would go back to right before jtcgs was going to kick Koster and intercept that kick. I would then support jtcgs in adding the 3rd dimension, but then have him removed from the building before he ruined gathering in SWG by making it "fair."

2)  I would show up at the studios where LOTRO was being developed with anatomy books and examples of realistic art of human figures. I would then tell them how I was from the future and explain that the world would be destroyed if they didn't change the character models to something acceptable.

3)  I would go to Bioware and convince them that they should make a Mass Effect MMORPG instead of using the star wars IP. My argument would be supported by the many failings of SWTOR as it existed in my timeline. If this failed I would have the code sent back in time where I would be waiting with a tarp and a shotgun.

Originally posted by bcbully

What would it be? Let's pretend there's no temporal distortions, and you didn't go back and actually ruin the game, so that the game you wanted to go back and develope is a sucky game now, and you never would have chose it in the first place, or would that be the second case? 

 

Anyways what mmo & why?

easy answer, WoW. made most money :)

i could start alot of new projects with that much mon€y

Tabula Rasa.  First I'd not have picked NCsoft as the publisher (they can't be trusted with western games), and second I'd have shifted Richard Garroit off of the creative side, until after his trip to space had been completed.  I'd  have fired who ever came up with the REALLY bad crafting system, and made it a modular system. (armor, weapons and consumables).

I would have kept the focus ENTIRELY on PvE, and developed the symbolic system to a much greater extent.

I would have expanded the war against the Bane into a territory control system, based around who had possession of the out posts, and fortress complexes.  Just a few of the first things that come to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Rasa_(video_game)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A60pdxfAwNE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B_w12sNPGo

SW:TOR

Because I would actually make a Star Wars game.

Originally posted by Caliburn101
[Insert any MMO name here] - I would get a grip of [Company Name] team and give them enough coffee to wake up and see the vast number of elementary errors they were making.

There you go, changed it to the

Universal Generic Response to the Op's Question.  (URPS? damn, doesn't work)

Universal Generic Response (abbreviated version):

QQ

Originally posted by L0C0Man
I'd go to Blizzard, developing WoW... and I'd just sit back, tell them to do everything as they were doing (did?), use all the money I can get to buy as many blizzard stocks around 2003, get big bonuses after the game is released and is such a success, come back to the present, sell stocks for big profit.. :) And while I'm there I could also do things like investing in apple short before the ipod is announced, again before the iphone and so on.. :)

Almost. Sell short  in August 2008. (several other dates may apply) Your final bottom line will be better.