I think that the disadvantage of being flagged hostile to everyone is a big enough disadvantage to offset the advantages alone.
In the old UO days, being a red was also a social curse--you naturally could not go places like cities etc. very often or for very long because people would gank you. you could do it, but you'd have to run in and run out quickly and skillfully.
being unable to go out in the daylight makes for interesting mechanics like being able to play your vamp in dungeons or inside only--making dungeon-crawling interesting and forcing vamps to band together to defend themselves in the dungeons.
I don't see vampires partying up with non-vampires very much. As a red in UO you'd attack friendlies because it wouldn't matter--you were already flagged to everyone so it didn't matter. partying with blues, who care about their murder counts and can't attack willy-nilly is difficult and frustrating.
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