Funcom announced that anyone who wants to play their sci-fi MMORPG Anarchy Online can play for free for the next year. If you sign up between now and January 15th, they will let you play the basic game (this does not include their expansions) for free until 2006. If you want to play with any of the expansions included, then you'll need to pay the subscription cost.
I imagine the virtual worlds must be near-desolate with the release of EQ2 and WOW. Anyway, here's the link:
http://www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_campaigns/freecampaign/Now the big question is: anyone played this game? Is it worth playing it, even if there's no cost involved? My roommate was playing the beta, and I created a character in the beta. The character creation system was nice, but it was SOO buggy on release I never bothered to play it. However, I understand it improved quite a bit.
Anyway, if you're wanting to play an online massive-multiplayer game, but you didn't want to pay for the privilege each month, here's your chance.