I sincerely hope you consider trying Dungeons & Dragons Online, The Chronicles of Spellborn, Wizard 101, etc. There are several really good F2P/Freemium games in, or coming to, the market. That's why I feel we're seeing a shift. The games we have now as F2Ps and Freemiums are worlds ahead of where they were just a few years ago. They continue to iterate and evolve, much like any other part of the video games industry.

That said, there are many games that exhibit localization problems, which I'll agree with you is a real black eye when it comes to recommending them. Of course, many Western-based games have glaring typos in them too (City of Heroes, I'm looking at you here) so to be fair, it's a pretty universal problem. :D