By now, everyone is, of course, quite sick of seeing the buxom ads deployed to entice new players for Evony. Being rather burnt out on everything else available on the market, I've been giving it a try. No, there isn't any comely wench in-game, of any sort, that I've found. But, it is free, after all, right..? Right?

Except they nerfed medals...

You can play for free until you get out of newbie-mode by trying to advance beyond Knight, which requires these medals, see?

Imagine a company, perhaps the one that you work for. Imagine if that company one day told you that you were allowed to play [1 hour?] of [WoW?] per day, but that you were to play it on a company rendered game client wherein you belonged to the company guild.

This is but one aspect of how a rebrandable MMO would be able to set itself apart.

Take it a step further: your highschool allows you to have an hour of MMO time instead of a class for the semester, but on their browser, with their chat filters, and with guild-generated quests so that your teachers can assign you in-game homework.

What other possibilities exist for an MMO with a solid rebranding structure?

• Atlantica MMO (1714)

  This game came out of nowhere and took the MMO community by storm. It is currently rocking the top of the charts over at MMORPG.com. I downloaded it in-between client checks, since it was free, initially based on the glowing reviews it was being given over on Ten Ton Hammer. I was not disappointed.

  Atlantica takes traditional MMO play-style and turns combat upside down by going back to a turn-based system. At the same time, they also provide the player mandate to populate an entire party of custom selected mercenaries of various abilities that function like additional characters with full enventory and equipment sets. Combining the re-simplification with the excessive complexity results in some strategic gameplay that is reminescent of Final Fantasy.

  If you played the Final Fantasy MMO and found it to be a boring grind, Atlantica's inclusion of up to eight mercenaries will very likely provide what you felt was missing.

• Age of Conan (1229)
• Spore (1210)