Furshit is more popular now than it's ever been in its lifetime thanks to social media and its consequences, and about half of the community are either CS nerds with competent programming abilities or admittedly talented artists with a skill which could lend itself well to designing game assets - so how come no group of furries have ever attempted a small-scale MMO where all the playable races could be different furry species, and have extensive enough customization to let most furtwinks recreate their fursonas in-game? It feels like a total no-brainer that could rake in millions from their own suspiciously wealthy demographic, but for some reason I don't think anyone has even attempted or conceptualized the idea in recent years. I know there was Furcadia in the 90's but that was so barebones I'm not sure if it should be counted.
Why do you guys think nobody has pounced on the opportunity yet? At the very least I would expect a Kickstarter scam that proposes the idea and never releases, but there's not even anything like that around.
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Two sides: first, I don’t think the numbers are quite there for a full-on furry targeted AAA game like that, either in size of the community or capability of groups looking to it as a market. + there’s less plausible deniability there than with media that just happens to use anthro characters. Zootopia didn’t need to target furries, it targeted norms and furries hopped along for the ride without further prompting.
Second: VRChat fills that niche quite well. Who cares about the gameplay trappings of an mmo when you can pay a hundred bucks to commission an avatar, then stare at yourself in the VR mirror all day?
…but yeah we’d all play it. I was pretty disappointed when cyberpunk 2077 avoided all furry options tbh.
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VRChat was actually what I was thinking of when I wrote this post, except it'd be cutting out the
part which would make it far more accessible.
I know next to nothing about game design, but even crypto nerds are able to set up small-scale 3D MMOs based around NFTs or whatever their latest grift is, and I figured a small crew of the right furries would be infinitely more capable and creative than that crowd. No need for an AAA budget or whatever.
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Yeah, I’m sure (or I guess I hope) something on that scale will happen someday. Always keeping a vague eye open for it. Maybe from Japan or Taiwan—a few of the Asian furries seem disproportionately willing to actually make furry games.
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