What would make a GOOD premise for an MMO anime?

MC is a man using a female avatar. He falls in love with a girl who is actually another guy. Thus is homo and lesbian at the same time.

>>157003314
Drop the MMO and isekai meme and just make a high fantasy manga/anime. There, fixed.

>>157003314

Actually knowing how MMOs work is a good start

>>157005250
Good point.

An mmo about guns but the MC uses a sword

>>157005250
isnt Log horizon a kinda good MMO?

/v/idya shit is always going to be garbage.

>>157003314
MC is an actual loner in the game. Doesn't talk to guildmates unless spoken to first, would rather outlevel the dungeon and solo it later on than find a group, already is max level so just stays online to mess around with auctions and novelty shit instead of doing content.

>>157006423
It's boring political shit

>>157003314
They're already an MMO anime.

DEEP IN THE NIIIGHT~

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>>157003314
This.

>>157006423
Needed a better studio and direction.

Yureka.

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>>157003314
Runescape '07 the Anime

>Castle Wars episodes would be amazing as you watch people turn to blocks of ice from someone using Ancient Magick, and exploding underground.
>Episodes focused on PVP Party luring players with goods into the wilderness and jumping them.
>People doing Monkey Madness and other quests.

>>157006423
Not really. The author very obviously wrote the mechanics last to fit the story instead of the other way around. If it were a real MMO you could play on your PC it would be rife with balance issues.

>>157003314
A psychological thriller focusing on both the MMO and IRL aspects: i.e. SAO with a different plot: If you play the game religiously, you begin to fail discerning game from reality, PVP taking place outside of the game, homicide, murder, etc. GGO but your actions in the game are the same actions you're performing in reality unconsciously

A group of cute high school girls start an MMO club at school. Cast includes a baka-genki Tank, an airhead DPS and a straight-man Healer. A new girl MC joins the club as a casual player who's there more for the social aspect of things and slowly gets more and more into it.

The show can have high flying action scenes paired with cute girls doing cute things and will use the juxtaposition between the too for humorous contrast.

>>157003314
One is the physical embodiment of what not to do and the other is boring tripe that only had a fandom because the show that came before it was a walking trigger warning.

Both shows suck dick. Also someone should rape and disembowel Reki.

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>>157003314
Get a good soundtrack

>>157003314
MC gets banned from servers

>>157008581
.hack is even more sleep inducing than Log Horizon. .hack was the Hyouka sleep memes of the olden days.

Here's a stupid idea:
>guy is in some top tier raiding guild
>logs onto his bank alt just before maintenance
>game becomes reality
So incredibly wealthy, has knowledge and some connections, but otherwise completely useless

>>157003314
Just animate actual stories of the rise and fall of guilds, players, and servers in Archeage.

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>>157007032
>If it were a real MMO you could play on your PC it would be rife with balance issues.

It's still better than whatever the fuck was going on in SAO or Hack.

>>157003314
At this point I can only imagine something deconstructing the genre being interesting.

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Make a story about a clan of griefers who crash game events by being #1.

We then learn the reason they do this was because they used to be pals with the devs but fell out of favor when the devs chose to become jews rather than improve the game. And thus chose to troll it just to remind the devs to fix their shit.

The devs, sick of their shit would keep trying to find new ways to hobble the clan during events by changing the rules and gameplay only to fail because of unparalleled autism.

Thus begins a war between players and developers. Where the victor decides the fate of the game.

Pic related.

>>157008767
.Hack// is a pretty fun game on PS2.

>>157003314
In one of the worlds that exist within virtual reality, Kagami held the title of one of the Nine Sages, a position that placed him at the pinnacle of magicians.

One day, he fell asleep in-game after pulling an all-nighter. When he opened his eyes, what he found was a world that was different to the one before… More important than anything else, was that the grizzled and dignified veteran’s body that he was used to, had now turned into an innocent little girl’s.

If his true identity was leaked, honestly speaking it was a situation where it was very possible that the solemn image he had built up until now would be destroyed.

And to deal with this problem, the excuse that he came up with was…

>>157008901
>Shitty Tales Of knockoff
>Fun

I couldn't finish it.

>>157008901

but It's a pretty shit representation of an MMO

>>157008964
I got pretty immersed and played through the .hack infection games and G.U. all in undub. G.U. in particular is amazing.

>>157003314
It's not even hard. Bottom-of-the-barrel guild trying to kill raid bosses. Can't pull it off. Gathers a few members from other guilds as the hardcore militaristic guilds forget how to have fun with the game. MC has a shitty build that somehow works for certain encounters. They also have one of the best crafters on the server, and must go on quests to get the materials for that crafting. Done.

>>157003314
>MC is a veteran of the game and is very good at his role
>a new expansion releases so tons of old and new players
>everyone is trapped in the game though
>to earn freedom the players have to level up then clear all the end game content without dying
>MC freaks out
>not because of the danger but because he's actually a pure pvper and has never done pve content and now pvp is banned because it would be murder
>joins a guild and makes friends with newbies who help him learn how to be a pve hero

>>157003314
I think it would be cool if you split focus between the MMO and life outside the game. You could take this in a SoL direction and depict players getting online together and doing social MMO content. Or you can play up the drama and do mystery stuff where the characters need to navigate both the online world in addition to meatspace in order to investigate whatever it is they're up to.

>>157003314
Don't tell the audience it's an MMO until the last episode
Treat it like a fantasy anime until the end

>>157009242
So Tower of Druaga then?

>>157009371
hayai

>>157009164
kek

>>157008901
Unfortunately, most of the users here wouldn't be old enough to have even heard of the original IMOQ series.

Sort of depressing.

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>>157003314
What about Grimgar? Accurate depiction of what the life in mmo would be like. Except for fucktons of fanservice.

>>157008970
They made an MMO version called .hack//fragments. It's dead though obviously considering the platform it was on.

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>>157003314
You write good characters and focus on their real lives as much as the game. Log and SAO both had a stale cast with relationships you didn't care about.

The King's Avatar is a Chinese series about a pro player who is cut from his team and forced to sign a declaration of retirement with a clause restricting him from entering a pro team for a full year, so he turns to PVE play. It's really good.


Quan Zhi Gao Shou (The King's Avatar)

>>157009527

That's just regular fantasy. Not everyone transported to another world is fucking in an MMO.

>>157009689
Because that wasn't their purpose
It's not about the lives of the characters, it's about a fantasy world populated with people from the real world
It's not about the story, it's about the battles

>>157003314
Slice-of-life with MMO elements.

Problem solved.

>>157003314
>Main character plays a specific MMO all the time.
>Has vast knowledge of the game, from the types of mobs and npcs, to the zones and areas, to the mechanics of the classes and the game as a whole.
>Despises one specific class/job - considers it useless and thinks that people who play that role are idiots and shouldn't be allowed to appreciate the game.
>One day, wakes up in the game world (or whatever contrived reason is necessary for them to be in the game).
>They are in the starting zone, level 1, and, to top it off, the class/job the MC despises.
>Is informed by some secretive higher power that in order to return home, the MC has to level the class/job they hate so much to max and fully complete every quest/dungeon/encounter in the game.
>no bullshit magical power-up/special abilities/Innate OP bullshit.
>Just the MC using their ridiculously detailed knowledge of the game they love to overcome obstacles, all the while having to come to terms with the fact they are the embodiment of the thing they once loathed.

footnote:
>The MC could be male of female, doesn't really matter (female would be interesting though since it's barely done in isekai).
>The MC could be a neet, but their attachment with the game and it's world means that their social ineptitude doesn't really carry over to the game i.e. they aren't an autistic retard.
>There could be a big bad, or a rival of some sort; possibly a character who the MC meets early on that has become the MC favourite class/job, and that creates jealousy (that class/job could be seen as the strongest in the eyes of the MC).

>>157003314
a proper fantasy setting instead of some video game shit

>>157009902

If nothing else it would be nice to see someone start at level one and actually have to work their way up ON SCREEN

>>157009788

>It's not about the story, it's about the battles

Exactly, they were inherently flawed.

>It's about a fantasy world populated with people from the real world

Yeah and those people from the real world were bland, with few interesting or likeable traits between them.

>>157003314
A middle aged guy just playing it in his spare-time, only ever being peripheral to all the "High concept" plots and craziness going on in the MC-type characters as he grinds out his medic skill by tagging along on the occasional mission so he can patch them up afterwards.

>>157009819
with cute girls

>>157010659
And genderbent lolis

>>157003314
>What would make a GOOD premise for an MMO anime?
Have an anime about an MMO with rampant inflation and the loss of value of currency, leading to players bartering using valuable enchanted rings as money.

>>157004210
there was one where a girl turned into a guy for the game

>shit ending

>>157010731
Or alternately, the Ultima Online scenario where the resources were fixed and thus a few players managed to corner entire economies by hoarding specific items. It lead to everyone else not having enough resources because new items don't spawn until the warehoused goods are consumed. The ones with the exclusive access to goods then charge exuberant prices.

having an actual mmo
forexample a wow anime about players rather than story would be interesting

>>157003314
>What would make a GOOD premise for an MMO anime?

>MC is in a small clan of online friends who've never met IRL.
>one member starts acting strange then disappears
>Discovers that his friend was violently murdered.
>MYSTERY
>Decides to investigate.
>Has to meet with his clan IRL and see the real people.
> They form an impromptu detective/adventure team.
>Discovers that the mob use the MMO to launder money, claiming to sell millions of dollars in virtual items.

All the boring talking parts would take place in the game so there would be flashy visuals, and the IRL parts would be dull but better animated. The IRL parts would all strong parallels with the game. Like a group of yakuza gaurds in eps 13 would be standing in the same formation as orc guards from eps 1, etc.

>>157003314
Stop calling sao a MMO game. It's VR game. Standart mmo concept wouldn't work for VR. Good thing Reki understood that

OSO already exists.

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Reminder that NetoYome is literally the only good MMO anime, the rest are shit.

>>157008600
As much as I love .hack//SIGN, I absolutely agree. I wouldn't mind a remake that cuts everything down to about 12 episodes. A faster pace would do wonders for the show.

>>157003314

EVE Online. No, seriously. It'd be a huge space opera, with backstabbing, endless drama, cute catgirls and exotic dancers(both genders).

>>157011900
I swear this was actually the plot to something. Now I'm going to be up all night trying to figure out what that something was.

>>157003314
Actual representation of MMO.

>Bunch of friends dicking around
>Male playing as female where female has male voice chat
>Raids, Dungeons and other mundane things
>Incompetent raid/dungeon members shenanigans.
>AFK. A lot of AFK.

>>157008899
Sounds nice

>>157012150

/a/ loves Ako, right? Also piggy, I suppose.

Focus on the drama of the players instead of the game. The fact that SAO, Hack, and Log Horizon have entire episodes dedicated to PvE is retarded; even if their 'lives' are on the line.

For example, you could make a very enticing arcs using some EVE drama as a foundation. Stretch a bit and you have conspiracy-level plots about people taking out guilds from within. Add some reasoning, history between players, etc. But use your game as a legitimate backdrop that makes sense AS A GAME.

>>157004898
Fantasy is shit. Go rewatch LOTR.