No. When Ultima Online was released, it had relatively free PVP (with some limitations), but they quickly introduced punishment for just randomly killing people. UO was a lot more about freedom than other MMOs, as you could far more things in it. It was not a relatively linear game where progression was first "go from level 1 to max level" and then "get the gear needed, following a set of increasingly difficult encounters", instead it gave you an open world, freedom over which skills you wanted (you could mix & match from a large list of skills, so there were no classes, and each skill was increased individually, without any levels or such to worry about). You also had more freedom in terms of what you could do with the world around you, for an example you could place furniture, build houses (early on from a limited selection of house models, but later they introduced a system that allowed you to build a house the way you wanted it) and interact with things. It was not a tightly scripted game.