Massively

11,000 registered dev-groups potentially means up to 11,000 MMOs - although practically a lot of folks just registered to get a look at the Multiverse tech platform first-hand, some are building solely private enclaves, and probably less than 30% of the MMOs in commercial development ever make it to release - so we wouldn't necessarily expect better from the garage bands - or would we?

Even so, there's a good chance that we'll see a couple of top-notch MMOs come out of the Multiverse platform if the tech is really all that it promises.

Multiverse have two sample demo worlds you can connect to - neither one is complete - they've been assembled quickly to show off the possibilities of the platform. One is a simple social VW, and the other is a simple fantasy MMOG.

Multiverse aren't charging for non-commercial use of the platform - if you're not making money from your customers, or from advertising, then they aren't either - otherwise developers can pay up front or go for a revenue-sharing scheme, where Multiverse get ten percent of your gross.

It will be interesting to see how many tech-teams make it to release with the lowered barrier to entry. It seems to be easy enough to put something sloppy together. I'm wondering how many will really shine.