this was a game that EQ2 should have been. it has a lot of the old school MMO elements with a unique combat system, crafting system, diplomacy system, an ingame housing and guildhall environment, mounts, flying mounts, ships, and a few other neat features. the bad news is that they made this free to play a few years too late. This game was released roughly around 2001-2002 and never had a major pickup. after release there was a rush of players that slowly bled out as people started finding issues and bugs in the game and the studio, probably out of money, started disabling and closing off areas rather than investing into correcting them. They did focus a bit on adding new end game content, but it left with about one high level raiding area with some buggy encounters and a low chance loot system. Some classes also have issues as well. I do recommend giving it a try, but don't hold hopes that SOE will make any improvements.