you know that I refuse to pay to play any online game. There was a fantasy MMO that you dd not have to pay once you bought the game, anyone remember what it was?
Guild Wars was it.. and it is a fairly decent MMO with more emphasis on small teams and less emphasis on kill stealing. Everything is instanced so the experience is similar to an open world crpg with towns populated by the interwebs. Its worth a trial and it is getting cheaper as GW2 is approaching release.