Neverwinter Nights style Roleplaying games.
If you've played a PW you know what I'm talking about. It's ACTUAL roleplaying, in an almost-MMO format. You can just go into a world, create a character, and roleplay with other individuals. Similar to a freeform RP game, but with actual substance and mechanics.
It differs from RP-MMOs in that it had DMs to create and advance stories, with the PWs having playerbases of a few hundred.
NWN2 was similar in a lot of ways, but failed to succeed in multiplayer like it's predecessor had. Other more recent attempts, like Shards online, don't seem to have captured the same atmosphere.
The closest I've encountered to this format is, of all the shit, some Minecraft roleplay servers. Quality is what you'd expect out of a few attempts from /tg/ in the past.
Is there anything like this still in existence, or is roleplaying just dwindled down to PnP-sizer weekly encounters?