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This article discusses how the World of Warcraft will affect the online gaming industry mediaimage Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment wanted to make a big splash in the video game world back in March when it introduced "Matrix Online," a massively multiplayer online game based on the once-hot film franchise. The game made a big splash all right,World of Warcraft: boosting the game industry Articles like a belly flop. Over its first three months the game signed up fewer than 50,000 subscribers, a pittance, so in June, Warner cut bait and agreed to sell the game to Sony. Last month "Matrix Online" was downsized from nine virtual "realms" to three, because users were having a hard time finding one another in the game's vast digital ghost town. The troubles of "Matrix Online" were partly of Warner's own making; many players and critics agree that the game is a mediocre experience. But the online market used to make room for mediocre ga...