Full loot PvP (ZONES ONLY, ITS OPTIONAL AND YOU DO NOT HAVE TI DO IT) fully open world and seems to emphasize exploration. I'm deeply sad about ashes' state, but there are other MMOs, not even AAA, that are coming out that look promising and fun. Also. Warvlox! Albeit I don't know much about it.

Coming out very soon! Second is winds of valen, dev team size is 3, heavily inspired by RuneScape and can have top down camera all the way to third person view, sandbox style, and while there isn't alot of content due to early access, it's stylized, beautiful and fun. There are world bosses (5)

Generated that evolve and emphasize discovery as it evolves, multiple races including undead, bear people and demonesque beings among the standard races. Classes like necromancer,age, druid, warrior, guardian, rogue etc. and PvP (both open world I believe but definitely instanced) with a demo (4)

Are actually going to be free to play with no power monetization, that are smaller in scale, both in content and in dev team but doing really well in what they aim to do. First is scars of honor. Stylized high fantasy MMORPG with hybrid (I think) combat, dungeons that evolve and are procedurely (3)

I still don't believe this was a scam, but I can't even argue the "I told you so" crowd, because it looks BAD. And at the end of the day, they didn't push the game to the finish line. It just... Sucks. But I would like to share some other independent MMORPGS that are in development that (2)

Shit is insane