Lord of the Rings Online free 7-day trial

Guild Wars is always a good option.

They are running a referral program in Europe where you invite friends and they get a free trial. I know I've seen people offering said trial keys to EU residents on message boards.

Plus, from what I hear the game is doing really well in Europe. Maybe they are less eager to jump on this yet there.

Deslock, like the PC Gamer US RPG columnist?

Also, I played for little while. It's Middle-earth WoW...just feels the same. And considering I played WoW for a week before I quit, that's not a good thing.

It's a shame MMOs like EVE where there is no grind aren't popular. Not to mention EVE has the greatest PVP ever.

That's nothing Neebs, have you heard of the EVE team's (CCP's) new project? A World of Darkness MMO, permanent death, PVP, the whole nine. Definitely something to look forward to. If you don't know what WOD and like PnP games you should check it out, if you don't like PnP check out Vampire: The Masquerade, uses their system but focuses on only 1 aspect, vampires.

With permanent death and full PVP is undoubtful that like EVE it'll be highly ignored by the MMO communities especially those that like grinds and raiding the same instances over and over for leet gear. The Perm Death (with hard to do and obtain resurrection spells and rituals for when your friends die) and Full PVP is just rumor right now I believe, but it's pretty likely given EVE and the WOD PnP game.

It'll be interesting to see how they handle paradoxes, the masquerade and vulger and covert magic in an MMO. As well as all of the social abilities.