I spoke to my old gaming pal yesterday. He's still playing a bit of WoW, a lot of EVE and recently something called Requiem Bloodymare. http://www.playrequiem.com/ which was released to the world in a rather quiet manner around the back end of June this year.

Guess what? It's free to play - or at least mostly. It's one of those ones where if you want special items you pay for them but essentially the basic game is free. You can even buy a mount at level 1 if you want, and he e-mailed me a pic of his mount which is a bi-plane lol.