The Daily Grind: What license would you like to see as an MMO?

Yeah that's what I was going to write too.
But Nintendo won't do it as long as it's own consoles are capable of handling mmos.
There is also the matter of GameFreak is a small studio.

Yah this has always baffled me.
I mean it's completely set up for being an MMORPG; trainers (players) monsters, monster-training, player tournaments, quests, trading, virtual-pet-raising, crafting, collecting/pokedex, crafted poke-balls.. the list is almost endless and it's already built in to the lore.

They have anime, manga, trading cards, toy-games, novellas, PRPG's, toys. lunchboxes and hairclips..
..there has to be a reason why they've shied away from an MMO I guess. Possibly the same reason they refuse to move on from 2d animated low-res sprites in even the most recent of their DS versions (battle scenes especially).

Would love to know where Nintendo's head is at.

@Amana

All you have to do is look towards the Wii to see where Nintendo's head is. They're more into pumping out more plastic dongles and silly Wii add-ons it seems. Given the fact they've attracted a huge casual player base to the Wii, a Pokemon MMO would make sense but there would be no way Nintendo would release it on anything but one of their platforms. I'd say there's pretty much zero chance of seeing a Pokemon MMO on the PC.

Rune Factory (You know, the fantasy rpg spinoff of Harvest Moon, which is a farming rpg) would make a fantastic MMORPG too.

I have to agree I would love to see a Pokemon one and I know my mom would love a Animal Crossing Online haha

I second Firefly..

Dune could be amazing, there's certainly a lot of material to work with.

Dune would certainly be an interesting proposition... if they could workout some way for the player to really get involved in the dynamic struggle for power between politics, money and religion that stands at the heart of Dune you would have something potentially awesome

The trouble is that I can't think of anything that has ever been licenced to the Dune name that hasn't ripped the heart out of the source material.

Dune would be a very nice IP to work with.

It comes pre-baked with more than just 1v1 faction warfare and numerous "classes" that could be interesting to play out in a game: Fremen, Sardukar, Bene Gesserit, Mentats, House Atreides, House Harkonnen, Fenring, etc.

You've got numerous "worlds" on which players could question, level, pvp.

And let players actually "rule" the Houses and organizations. Don't just make them NPC factions but create a way for players to join a faction, get rank in the faction, and take a leadership role in the faction that actually has impact.

Set the game 20 or 30 years before the action in the original Dune and let the game begin.

Game of Assassins...

The possibilities are vast and the setting would allow so much by way of innovation on some of the old worn out MMO concepts.