@ Angel

I see what you did there, but MMORPGs really arent RPGs, certainly not in the tabletop sense, and not even really in the single player sense. The important component of RPGs is not the playing, or the game, you PLAY other GAMES as well. It's the Role, and that just isn't really established well within these games.

What role does orc warrior 1 have that's really so different than orc warrior 2? They both start out in the same place, literally, they both do the same quests, they both get the same opportunities for gear. How does the game support a different identity between one character and another without explicitly dedicating the server to people who are going to seek out their character's identity on their own?

It's incumbent on the community to provide RP on the server. If the server isn't dedicated to RP, I say you shouldn't expect it to be enforced. If it is, i think you should.