Ahoy, matey! I have become completely addicted to an MMORPG, but it's different in that it's a FREE MMORPG, aaaand it's a Disney one. That's right. Free and Disney. "Whaaat? How could that be fun?!" you ask yourself. (Okay, so I asked myself that.) But it is! So much fun! (I completely blame Shannon for sucking me in. Blame and thank. All in the same breath.)
Roll up a char which you get to customize all sorts of facial features from the size of your eyes and ears to the length of your nose and chin. Then it's a fun tutorial action with Jack Sparrow and other Pirates of the Caribbean characters, and you're off! Sword fighting, pistol shooting, cannoneering, sailing!
I'm hoping some of you on my friends list will roll up some chars, because it's way more fun to make your friends rich than it is to make rude strangers rich. It is free, but you have to put up with ads to upgrade. Then when you do upgrade (just $4.95 the first month), you level super quickly, and the game loads faster. It's still brand new and sort of buggy, but fun enough that you can overlook all the problems.
And now that it's almost 4am, I'm off to get a little sleep, though I'm completely revved up from the fun plundering run we just sailed! (It ended with our light frigate being engulfed by flames and sinking into the sea, but we made tons of gold before that happened. Damn those British Navy ships!)
Pirates of the Caribbean Online! P.S. For you MO'ers, the experience in Pirates is called Notoriety! Yay for noto over exp!