Mythos, Flagship Studios' free Fantasy MMO (which, so far and unsurprisingly, plays a lot like a cross between Diablo and Hellgate) seems to have gotten a complete overhaul: In an email which went out to beta testers yesterday, Flagship Studios states:

Before, players would mostly meet in towns (although in some regions, you could watch other players do their killing), and all dungeons were instanced. From safe cities you "teleported" to regions on a world map, which were created randomly. Now, the world seems to be a seamless, persistent world like in most MMOs. So you can finally meet other people outside of towns, see them die, help them (preferably before they die). That is, if you've got a beta account. The release date has not yet been announced, although 2008 is still a possibility.