Ryzom - it's made be a French company, it died on it's arse, now it has been bought by a new developer and aparently it's pretty sweet.
I have been messing around with this tonight and it is interesting if nothing else, you have no level, but your skills do, skills like magic, fight and things like that. I have trained my magic up and am now killing things with ease.
It's a little like WoW, but not really, hard to explain, but it does seem to have a lot of quality about it, and best of all, it's free!
The website:
Ryzom - Science-Fantasy MMORPG Emphasising Universe, Freedom, Roleplay and Community
Download it here:
Ryzom - Science-Fantasy MMORPG Emphasising Universe, Freedom, Roleplay and Community
There is only one English server, and the chat is full of people answering questions, and chatting in a nice way - always a great sign to me.
So far I have learned that you can edit your skills, do all kinds of things to your character, and wierdly, you can use a level editor to create quests for other people!
Yeah, using the editor, you create a quest, create a mini world, then submit it and it gets added to a quest hub, that anyone can do.
I played around with this, and it seems like Second Life crossed with WoW - you create the content for others to complete.
I am still early into this, so I cannot answer any in depth questions, sorry.
Oh, it's pretty too:
Give it a go! - like I say, the very best thing for me so far is the community, ask a question, you get an answer, there is no 'lolz u r doin it rong' bullshit, just a fun group of people.
It's early days for me, but this could either be the best or worst thing I have ever downloaded.