User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/How much work would go into a RWBY MMO?/@comment-25555436-20150911195523/@comment-4010415-20150911211808

Weapons

For the weapon, I was kinda thinking "You choose one ranged weapon and one melee weapon to combine" not something where they can, say, choose a rifle and then go through like "And put a spear on it and a sickle blade and a grenade launcher and a laser function aaaand..." Definitely not that. Many of the weapons in the show seem to be "Choose a ranged weapon and a melee weapon." The exceptions are reasonable:


 * Pyrrha - Her spear's handle length is adjustable.


 * Blake - The sheath has a sharp edge and a hole in it for dual wielding purposes. In order to follow the theme of transformation, her katana's blade folds down, so it forms a sickle. But it's still "Stick this sword blade on a gun."


 * Emerald - Kind of a similar thing to Blake.


 * Neptune - The guandao blade's big purpose is to make the trident an adequate weapon for combat.

And really, if they're gonna be starting out in Beacon, their weapons should already be made and customized by then. The characters are just new to fighting against actual Grimm.

Semblance

My main thing was just that, making the game's customizable parts really complex involves a looooot of work. MMOs are hard to make to begin with, especially if you don't go the route of "You chose this class, and every character of this class has the same exact skill tree and same exact weapon type. Go buy a new version of this weapon when you reach a certain level" and instead go the route of "Choose your own custom fighting style and RWBY weapon!!"

Doing what you suggest with Semblance would be amazing, buuut... a lot of work. Grimm Eclipse is Rooster Teeth's first video game, so I don't know if they would want to jump into making an MMO if it's as complex as we're all wanting it to be. All these ideas could make the MMO of the decade, but what decade? By that, I mean, how long would it take to make it? They'd have to actually make and program the textures and effects and program in that customizability.

Not to mention, all the data for your customizations would need to be saved server-side for all the other players to actually be able to see it.