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With WoW they've got customer service people (GMs), technical support people, server costs, bandwidth costs, upgrade costs. Loads of stuff to pay for, they won't be making a huge percentage of profit off of the £8 you pay.
The three month subscription I have for WoW comes about £25. That's like buying a new game every few months, except instead of it lasting just a week, WoW has lasted me almost seven months, a bargain if you ask me.
Also, Matrix Online sucks balls, so you'll not be missing anything if you opt out of playing it.
I had it, lasted about 6 days before I realised it was utter crud. And then I when I tried to cancel the subscription they wanted me to phone up some high rate number. Cancelling WoW was easy, about 3 clicks of a mouse.
It is important to note that I utterly regret unninstalling WoW but my computer couldnt run it :( which is a bit dodgy considering it runs bf2... grr
The Matrix Online looks cool, but obviously looks can be decieving. It's a shame brilliant games like WoW are subscription based, as it means a lot of people miss out on them.
No thanks, and if Blizzard ever stoop to such a level, they can shove their game right up their ass.