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Dragon Empires Cancelled
Darniaq writes "Today, Codemasters announced they are discontinuing development of their massive online game Dragon Empires. They had this to say about it: 'The decision to close Dragon Empires' development does not impact on Codemasters' long-term ambitions in the massively multiplayer online gaming market and the company remains very active in evaluating future opportunities.' It appears yet another studio has realized a persistent virtual world requires more time and effort than they wish to expend. Regardless of the true reason, I applaud the move. The massive online gaming genre does not need more games from companies unwilling to focus themselves on them."
The one where you "own your own real estate" is called Second Life.
http://www.secondlife.com
They just updated to version 1.5.
Religion is poison to rationality, and we lose sight of that at our own peril. -- Lurker2288
Runescape was strictly free for the first year or so, and still has large amounts of content available for free. Paying a monthly subscription, at the lowest rate in the industry, gives you access to the full map and all expansion content -- no box to buy, no expansion packs to buy.
Planeshift is an open-source MMORPG. It's still in the early alpha stages, and development is slow, but it's free.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.