Vanguard: Saga of Heroes was released in 2007. Despite its disastrous launch, it is still alive and it is going free to play sometime this summer:
http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?section=News&month=current&id=1374
Here's an interesting writeup by a player about the weird afterlife Vanguard has been in since everyone quit four months after it launched:
http://rwillmore.wordpress.com/
And the current players on the official forum are not cutting SOE any slack on the quality of recent updates:
http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?topic_id=56885
I played it for the couple of months and then abandoned it along with everyone else. But what I saw back then was so promising that I might give this a shot when it goes F2P, just to see what it's become.
http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?section=News&month=current&id=1374
Here's an interesting writeup by a player about the weird afterlife Vanguard has been in since everyone quit four months after it launched:
http://rwillmore.wordpress.com/
And the current players on the official forum are not cutting SOE any slack on the quality of recent updates:
http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?topic_id=56885
I played it for the couple of months and then abandoned it along with everyone else. But what I saw back then was so promising that I might give this a shot when it goes F2P, just to see what it's become.