What is this WoW game?

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^ This. I don't have much other hobbies, so WoW can (and often does) take my time away for days.

Well, it is possible to play on a PvP server without trying to fight the other faction, it's just that if you do so, and you go to a region whose name isn't in green (yellow means disputed territory, and red means the other faction owns it), you could get jumped at any moment by a member of the other faction (when there is a great disparity in levels, that's called "ganking", and is generally frowned upon - except by the gankers, who think it's kewl for some reason. And yes, if asked, they will indeed spell the word "kewl", and may even claim that it makes them "leet", or in extreme cases "733t").

I play that way on a PvP server, mostly because when my wife created her characters, they were on that server, and I wanted to play with her. (Haven't played for a little over a month, because my subscription ran out, and I have more important things to drop my thirty bucks on, but I'll probably get back into it at some point - now that I finally have a Death Knight, after all, I can actually get some stuff done, and there aren't so many people looking to gank me...)

In order to avoid ganking altogether, you can create your character(s) on a PvE, or "Player vs Environment", server. There, the two factions are only allowed to engage in combat in specially-designated battlefields and arenas. (After all, when you're running down the length of Stranglethorn Vale, the 30th-lvl tigeroids and 50th-lvl giant gorillas are enough of a threat - you don't need to worry about being jumped by a 65th-lvl orc with a bored player too!)

I actually am not allowed to buy things off the internet, so WoW will just have to wait until I move out. It sounds pretty cool though I heard a few examples in this forum, but what are some other good examples of free MMOPGHs I can play for now?

Um, when you stick to roads you usually won't get attacked by monsters.

Turned out to be a bad idea for my 6th-lvl Warrior to wander from Elwynn Forest into the Redridge Mountains just because he was nearby - road or no road, the 15th-lvl Giant Tarantulas swarmed the poor guy before he knew what was going on...

Most others have explained what WoW is, I just wanna give my opinion on it.

I like the gameplay of WoW, it's pretty good for a while. The artistic style is what really makes the world though if you're into that sort of thing. I played up a Paladin to level 64 and then got bored and quit. I like the combat, it's fun and intuitive. However having to walk for eternity everywhere you go is time consuming and can really be annoying. Even when you can buy a flight places it just takes forever to get to instances or areas where your team is meeting up. Half the time you play is spent searching for a team and then actually getting to the location. The thing that irritates me most is the equipment/item drops. You could spend eternity trying to get a particular weapon or armor piece that you want and the drop is random, and even if it drops another player can just "roll" higher than you and snatch it away. If the gear didn't make such a huge difference in performance it wouldn't be an issue but it really does. Especially in PvP where people twink(bulk up their low level characters with awesome equipment) all day long.

Personally I prefer City of Heroes/Villains

I recently started playing Aion and so far it's quite fun.

I HATE it . I have said it in some thread before, my stephfather showed it to me, but I stuck, and still stick with Mario, Zelda, Sonic and Pokemon.

Well, yes, if what you're looking for is an action-packed videogame experience, then WoW definitely isn't the game for you. Same holds true if you're looking for a truly deep and layered role-playing game experience - they can't really do that sort of thing in an MMO. (It's not very easy to implement even in a single-player CRPG - the best attempts I've seen so far are Mass Effect and the Knights of the Old Republic games - if you really want to roleplay, I'd recommend sticking with tabletop pencil&paper games like GURPS or D&D.)

On the other hand, if you're a fantasy RPG fan but can't get a tebletop game together for some reason, or are actually looking for RPG-Lite, WoW can be a lot of fun. You can immerse yourself into a character as far as you wish, so long as your enjoyment isn't disturbed by other people who only see their characters as point-piles whose raison d'etre is to level for the sake of levelling...

I've noticed that since WoW hit, my pool of tabletop gamers (AD&D 2nd Ed. (the ONLY "true" edition )) has grown substantially for my once/week campaign. I've been able to add a really good player lately.