EVE Online

I have been playing EVE Online while on summer leave and have enjoyed it so far. It's different from other MMOs in that the game world is much more realistic, pirating, scamming, and all that good stuff is legal provided you don't exploit bugs. The game mechanics allow you to do that kind of stuff and nowhere is completely safe from PvP, it's pretty awesome.

Eve is a game about virtual conquest. It's just like any other strategy game out there, although in Eve, the tokens moved about on the playing field are actual players. Everything in the game is put there to drive the big strategic theater, and although certain things might need to be balanced for the plebs, it's all small potatoes. What matters is gaining territory and crushing your enemy.