Look up foxhole. It’s a pretty fun war mmo. Different in a lot of aspects from a normal MMORPG but “realistic” in that it could have happened in an alternate reality. It’s grounded in science and history, but different factions and technology.

As great a take as that is who will host the online service? Piracy can get you far but not always all the way. We need an open source game hosting option. But even that is not all. We need one that has the visibility of steam and the UI to boot. There a a couple of problems that legitimately need solving before we can just say piracy is the answer.