I came late to the convo, but i play WOW. I tried pretty much all the others mentioned, i am a retired Star Wars Galaxies player, man i miss the old school SWG, but anyhow....WOW has a free trial, but i am sure you know that by now, I started in july 07 and felt it was the best mmorpg out there as far as content and player base. I found a good guild (Min age is 25 years old and it is a good rpg in my opinion. As with any mmorpg it will consume time but as long as you are having fun, who cares. It now has free in game voice communication which is awesome if you would rather talk then type like myself, but the best experience is the huge player base, i meet tons of people from all over and that is just coolio. I am 34 and enjoy playing with my age group and the other mmo's really didnt offer a large age group over 20 from what i saw, plus there are lots and lots of chics who play WOW, we have 27 chatty ones in the guild im in, which is alright if you want a womens opinion time to time. If you do decide to try the trial and dont know what realm to pick, i play on the Uldaman Realm, name is Discodancer send me a message ill be stoked to help out in any way : )