Why isn't there...

[Pulse]

A journey style MMO?

I finally got round to playing journey, and I really, really enjoyed it. I just find myself wishing there was MORE.

It could have....
Vast, open and varied landscapes.
Exploration done for the sake of it, backstory, and character customisation.
No combat, just hazards.
Both cooporation between players to reach harder to reach places, but possibly misdirection away from limited resources.
A few more chirp styles (unlockables?) etc. No mic chat, possibly very limited text chat of some sort. And throw in a few different abilities.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well this is how a lot of MMO concepts get made... also how they all go horribly wrong as games.

Journey works because of the tight minimalistic package, start throwing in random ingredients and it will just be spoiled and pointless.

 

[thesilentman]

Where's the factor that makes you want to come back to it? Pure exploring for the fun of it does sound nice, but if you don't have anything to make sure that you come back in the game, it's going to die out quickly. I'd say that a multiplayer version of Journey would be better suited for this.

 

[Austin Howe]

The problem here is that Journey is a good game and MMOs are inherently bad.