Terrible MMORPG ideas

Forrest Gump MMO - lots and lots of running/walking involved

A space exploration MMO that spans an entire galaxy, but there's no faster-than-light travel, and all travel must be conducted in real time.

MMO Maker: The MMO of MMO Designing

You play a dev working on an MMO. You can undertake such exciting missions as "Forum Moderator Duty" "Beta Inviter" and "GM Duty!"

Earn darkside points for banning people, or not helping. Earn XP for your game being called "Teh SuXx0r!!!11!!!"

Girl Scout cookies .. The MMORPG. Create your character and race against time and other players to sell the most boxes and win the badge for highest sales. Bonus points for talking a rich relative into buying 100 boxes or more just to pad your totals. No holds barred PvP zones where your character can compete against others to reach the most houses on a city block and sell the most boxes! As you increase in levels parental units with jobs can be added to sell boxes at work! Oh god I just flashed back to those days .. NEVER again LOL

Garage Band / Rock Band / Guitar Hero Online

The Internet's Got Talent

Keeping Up with the Kardashians Online

The Biggest Online Loser (Hint: This is not about losing weight...)

Jersey Shore Online (XP earned by being a DeeBag)

Dancing with the Noobs (Really, this can be a console...)

Star Wars Galaxies II: RETURN OF THE COMBAT UPGRADE

Trumpy Online (Where you earn XP by covering for your pet alien and, for bonus points, his murderous mom)

Freem Online!!! (A game where players can work competitively or cooperatively to bring down the business model of The EBIL Devs for XP. Bonus XP for subscription cascade effect combos!!!!!!!)

and finally...

Tabula Rasa II: The Quest for Moar Players (where the players team up to attempt to recruit people from RL into the game for XP and LEWT!!!)

Additional terrible idea:

Lawyers and Lawsuits Online, in which characters write briefs and argue a lot. The scariest thing about this idea is that a few years back, someone suggested this as a serious idea.

City of City Planning: Planning a city works pretty well as a sandbox-type game or even perhaps a real-time strategy game ("Cleveland just awarded Federal transit subsidy!").

But as an MMO, you play a city planner sitting in meetings all day discussing estimated future traffic load, or renegotiating recycling pickup contracts.

Top Gear Online: racing-based game in which you attempt a series of entirely impossible car-based challenges, and earn points for how smug and/or ambitious (but rubbish) you can be.

GMs will never, ever speak to you, and must be placated with gifts of raw meat, WD40 and Celine Dion albums before rendering assistance.

MMODev- the MMO about MMO Development

Players take on classes based on game development roles, like Producer, Artist, Codemonkey, NOC Troll, CSR, Marketing, and more, organize into "guilds" (called Studios) and enter an epic grind to make the next MMO.

Facebook Online (players can fraternize with friends in a game that's a lot like second life, only everybody on the internet can see what you're doing as well as viewing videos of your past gameplay, and the devs sell ad space to Russian Zombie-Network Mafias)

Complaint Department Online (you and your team must mitigate the ever-increasing torrent of Dev-generated complaints while attempting to eke every drop of profit out of the game you can, in order to gear up for handling the ever-increasing torrent of higher level Dev complaints)

Flame Wars Online (you play the role of an internet tough guy, progressing from a lowly dim-witted Nubposter to an epic Forumwarrior. XP is earned by correctly identifying logical fallacies, belittling said fallacies for bonus points, and for dogpiling the Nubposters with the worst ideas. Dogpile combos earn up to double xp. Loot can be gotten only by forcing people to cancel their subscription to the game; at which point, you canz has their stuff)

Codefumblers (you play the role of a code developer lost in the murky depths of a literal sea of eight year old code that was originally written during drunken nights of documentationless cavorting. Characters advance by fixing specific areas of high-priority code, but earn bonus xp for additional bugs created by their fixes. This perpetuates an ever-escalating system of tiered leveling, culminating in the epic end-game content known as "DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!")

Pin the Blame on the Marketing Director Online (speaks for itself)

Popularity Contest Online - Try and gain as many friends as possible to.... oh wait that's Facebook

The Smurfs: Rather limited costume options, especially for women.
McDonaldland MMO: Mayor McCheese still gets stuck in the Evil Grimace's lair.
Homestar Runner: Currently, it's still impossible to unlock Senor Cardgage as a contact.
Ghostbusters: Wait, no. That would be completely awesome!

The Young Ones Online

• One of few MMOs that has destructible environments.
• Quests include but are not limited to: avoiding to pay rent; outsmarting laundromats; playing Murder in the Dark; finding a vendor who's willing to buy that nuke you just discovered in your kitchen.
• The crafting system will allow players to build cardboard submarines or rig explosives to the doorbell, among other things.
• PvP combat can only be initiated by the Vyvyan class. The Mike class is never flagged for PvP but can buff the Vyvyan class by giving it ideas on how to grief other players.
• Only the Rik and Neil classes are available to players.
• GMs are identified by their characters having the Balowski surname and <Landlord> tag.

Sartre's No Exit: Hell is other players.