To the author of this thread, have you spent any real time on the server or are you just basing your opinions off of a few moments logged in?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/role-playing game
This is exactly what you do when you become a class and play, when you join a town and watch it flourish and grow to be a kingdom. The definition of a RPG has nothing to do with quests, lore, pvp, etc.
In WoW you are not forced to do "anything" and yet it is a RPG by your standards. WoW has quests, as did we until the plugin decided to take a shit on the server and cause issues. WoW has pvp, as do we in the form of skirmishes and world pvp. WoW has lore, as do we to a point. WoW has dungeons and raids, to a point we do now when a Zo decides to cause havoc on the land. WoW has races which is not an exclusive element of a RPG.
At the purest form, we are a RPG server. We may not have EVERYTHING you want to see, but the server is constantly evolving. I suggest giving it a chance before you write it off, but it seems you have already done that without spending any real time on here.