Many people cry out for a Pokemon MMO- but little do they know that a completely free-to-play Pokemon MMO already existed 2-3 years ago in the form of Pokemon Global, later changed to PokeNet.

It featured complete, accurate maps of the Johto and Kanto regions - and plans to expand to every region eventually - with complete battling and trading compatablity. Gym battles, shops, wild encounters... it was all there, and the players loved it!

Unfortunately, exactly 2 years ago today on April 1st 2010, the owners of PokeNet recieved a Cease and Desist order from Nintendo. They thought they'd be allowed to keep running it, since they made no money at all from the game- not even from donations. Alas, they had to shut the game down. We all thought that it was an April Fools joke- but instead it was simply a horribly timed disaster for the online Pokemon community. 

However, all hope is not lost. Some of the original developers decided to make their own game, entirely from scratch - it is still very much in progress (there is no playable form of the game yet), but there is still a number of people waiting for this Pokemon-like MMO, and I wanted to show the developers that there was still a reason for their efforts: this isn't an advertisement by any means, since I'm not at all involved in the development in Evocri (the aforementioned game that took over PokeNet), but I encourage you to sign up to this website http://www.evocri.com/forums/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.evocri.com/forums/index.php and post a quick message on the welcome board to say hello :p (the community is pretty much all gone now, so it'd be nice to see messages in that forum again- despite this, the admins still check for messages every day).

Aside from this- do you think that Nintendo will ever release a Pokemon MMO? If they did, would you subscribe? 

Gamefreak seem to place a strong emphasis on Pokemon being a purely handheld experience. That aside I wouldn't be surprised If Nintendo were to announce some sort of online multiplayer Pokemon title either for the 3DS or Wii U. It will probably be a different creature from the standard 'MMORPG', something like Monster Hunter with lobbies perhaps where you can group up for 3v3 battles or quests or something along those lines anyway.

https://twitter.com/#!/Sonyp_

This guy is already making a Pokemon MMO, I've been part of a stress test for it. Nowhere near finished but very promising. 

Gamefreak continue to astound with their inability to evolve the franchise. As long as it sells, I guess. 

Why does it have to be an MMO? Why can't it just be a Pokemon RPG (Like we have now) but with 3D graphics? I hate MMO's and I would never sign up to one even if it's official by Game Freak and The Pokemon Co. Neither would a lot of the Pokemon Fans, it would be a bad move to go away from their RPG formula.

We all thought that PokeNet shutting down was an April Fools joke, since it happened on April 1st- but unfortunately it was no joke :( 

I think a 3D MMO would be really interesting, especially if it was on WiiU