RO is fun for the first 5 minutes. And that's only because it has nice smooth animated characters. Like Tactics.
But then you finally realize, "Wow! This game has no point at all!" And that's it.
It just doesn't have what it needs to hold your attention. It tries to throw in jobs and all that but it doesn't work out well. SWG will be good. But of course i'm not buying that either because I am not going to pay for it when I can just get Everquest and it would be the same. Only reason SWG seems good is because of the Jedi factor. And you have like what, a trillionth of a chance of getting it? And the first Jedi won't be around till about 4 years after release anyways.
FFXI though will be worth it if it holds up to it's name, and MMORPG's can be free, it's the same as websites, advertisements, I wouldn't mind going into my inventory and seeing a bar at the bottom selling XBox Magazine subscriptions if I didn't have to pay $18 a month Canadian.