Not so much an MMO but..
There was this little game done by (Digital Anvil studios?... regardless) It was produced by Microsoft Games, and it is called Freelancer. The game was released a year and a half early (thanks to M$) but the Modding community has done amazing things with the title since then, including hosting pirated log-in servers in order to keep the game running. (M$ shut down the primary host for the servers almost eight years ago.)
It has always had the ability to be something massive but the coding for multi-player can only handle about two hundred people on at a time on a server, despite the fact that the major systems (all eighty of them or so..) are capable of handling 1,000+ people.
Freelancer is one of those games that has been waiting desperately for the SDK/Code to be released as free-domain so that it could be properly visualized, but true to form M$ wont let loose a single iota of information.
Despite that the community is strong, and the overall dynamics suit a sandbox world, so while it may not be considered a true MMO, it has it's merits.
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