I know there is an open source game that is very similar called minetest. I've personally never played it, but it is on my list of things to try.

https://www.minetest.net/

@Byshop:

Closed Alpha ... I do remember playing Betas, even closed Betas, but I never got to play any closed alphas. Of course the problem with open Alpha these days is then everyone can see it an scream about how everything in the game sucks and does not live up to the hype. What do they expect, I mean, really alpha means that all the major features are not finished, beta is the stress and bug test, and release is when it is finished for the masses. So, yeah, alphas go through a lot of new user interfaces, new features, removed features, total revamps. That is why these companies close them up, because they are so afraid of the negative publicity, I guess as in "alpha xyz sucks" Alpha is not the final game people. That said I don't believe in secrecy, people doing things behind closed doors probably means its bad things. I mean, I understand why closed alphas exists, but honestly, no more closed Alpha's for me, or closed Betas.

Well, anyway, I'm playing an open alpha for Wograld and I can talk about it as much as I want, but that doesn't stop there from being potentially negative consequences for talking about open alpha, but if the developers decided that alpha should be open, then its open and who I am to question them?

Obsolete game genres include

old school point and click adventures (cause you could just find a hint guide, then so what)

3d platformers (they always sucked)

It is alpha, it doesn't really have a permanent server yet, but hardcore (as in I wanna work in the games industry hardcore) testers can play it.

http://wograld.sourceforge.net/

It looks so much like Ultima Online, World of Warcraft, and old school (pre final fantasy 7) final fantasy rolled into one with 45 degree isometric graphics (where else can you find that except UO) and random roguelike dungeons. I could go on about it, but interested parties would be better to check it out for themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkBjzOtO0VE

I used to love World of Warcraft, well, back when I first started playing it, but ultimately I don't think I ever want to try to repeat the experience. So much of it was about how new it felt to me, and how beautiful I I found the graphics. I loved it as the first game where undead was a playable race that you could choose upon starting it. My favorite part of the game was when you first started it up and looked at that portal and that cool music started playing. I found that track so uplifting, but I never found any of the other music in the game anywhere near that awesome.

Ultimately I quit WOW after a year or so, never to return, not on unofficial private servers or otherwise either. It basically comes down to gaming preferences. I like games where I can mostly solo, and maybe do some grouping for certain things now and again, I don't really like to run around with a group 24/7, I guess that's more just my introverted nature. Also I prefer a game to be more sandbox like and less linear, I just like exploring and not necessarily lining up to do stuff. I'm also not really a big fan of traditional level up and raid types of games. I just prefer the more casual nature of games such as Ultima Online, Runescape or Wograld. I played Ultima Online for over 7 years, and Runescape for 7 years also. Now, I'm moving on to a new game, in development, very sandbox like as that is still in Alpha called Wograld.