After stepping into the realm of free MMO's for a while, I have concluded that they all suck. Don't be cheap and spend about $40 for a game. Anyways, here's the ones I tried:
- Private WoW Servers: Sort of sucked. Not enough activity, stability, etc.
- Private RO Servers: Why did I DO THIS?! RO wasn't that great to begin with, and private servers are worse!
- Knight Online: Makes Runescape look exciting
- Kal Online: Boring, no real skill variation until the level 30's, and most of the people use credit card fraud (ccf) to get cash in the game anyways. I wouldn't touch that shit with a 10 foot pole.
- Silk Road Online: Decent, but a little boring and ever-laggy
- Runescape: Bad graphics, repetitive gameplay, but the PVP system is actually very fun. I spent a week chopping yew trees while talking in Vent with my friends instead of pissing around elsewhere, and the ~2 mil gold I got from that lasted a few months of PKing, which was fun. Not really worth it if you want to have fun before your first 999 hours of gameplay though -.-
- Guild Wars: Not free, but no monthly fee. GW is fun for a while until you beat it 3-4 times (it takes like a week. I've been able to speedrun old guild members in about an hour through the entire game) The PVP is also very fun for about a month or two until you get frustrated at the idiots you have to deal with even in the higher levels of PVP.
GW and Runescape are the only two I'd ever go back to playing. Well I guess i'd play them all if somebody took a soldering iron to my nutsack or something extreme like that.