I'm sure they can refine the concept a bit to be more viable. One way would be to make each account dual, ie. a zombie and a hunter character. At character creation give every player a target zombie, perhaps a loved one gone undead.

The ultimate goal of the game could be to simply find and kill that one "special" zombie, obviously finding that one zombie in a city full of zombies is going to take a very, very long time, especially if you add rpg elements like needing to find better equipement and learning your way around town.

Anf hopefully there'd be some way to not become a zombie once being bitten, ie, hacking off said limb and/or cauterizing the wound. This opens up the idea for medics, bionic limbs n' whatnot, etc.

Hell, it could work. Someone give Kojima George Romero's phone number.

Oh yes please. That sounds amazing. I'd so pay for that.

Man, a game like that could only fit on a 50gb disc.

Oh, so Urban Dead, but costs money and has graphics.

That would certainly put a new twist on the usual MMO "how far along, what skills, equipment do you have?" conversations.

I'm a level sixty with only one leg and I'm missing 4 fingers on my right hand. I got movement -90% and I can only wield pistols now. I'm grinding for an eyeinjury now so I can enjoy the game in 2D

A zombie MMO could be awesome.

But not this one.

That either sounds like a joke, or this guy is a complete asshole who should not be in charge of anything.

That's about as bright of an idea as having to pay extra per month to have more than one character in Final Fantasy Online.

w00t for 10 day old news!

I like the idea still anyway.

Well, It sounds like it has potential...
But I'm not going to pay $10 to sit around and watch people get eaten.

I could just goto seven eleven and watch crack heads do that
for free.

An Urban Dead-esque zombie MMO with graphics, greater depth of simulation, Resident Evil-style straying from realism, and that sort of thing could be very cool. But you would really either have to be able to control zombified characters or give them up entirely as they became NPCs. Paying to watch them do stuff under AI control would be utter bullshit. In fact, since the nature of the genre is a fairly high fatality rate, you'd have to earn account-wide bonuses to make it fun for very long...I mean, you might be able to maintain characters for a while if you were good enough at the game, but if there were detailed injury models and a proper zombie-human ratio (little say super zombies ala some of the nastier foes in the RE games. Nemesis, for example.), your odds would be poor. Urban Dead characters, in my experience, survived largely through the immense defensive advantage barricades grant, combined with the Necrotech serum revivals and the lack of zombie in-game coordination. Revivals absolutely shouldn't be in a regular zombie MMO, if you ask me.

After Land Of The Dead... are you serious?

It's good to see Kojima still coming up with golden ideas. But where's the Snatcher remake damnit!!!

Watch your zombie character attack? Pay to have another character to go kill the first? His head needs punched. ~puts on the head punching gloves~

it would be my favourite game. unless they made the zombies crap.

the man is a genius, he'll figure out a way to make it work.