The Matrix Online is Evil

Remember a few months back, I signed up for the free trial of The Matrix Online? I mocked it as a soulless travesty, and immediately canceled the account. It took nowhere near a month to determine that this game had nothing to teach me.

So far so good.

But a couple of weeks later, Warner Bros. sold the rights to their incompetent game to Sony -- and Sony seemingly just reactivated all canceled accounts. (At least, they seem to have reactivated mine.) It took me several months to notice the repeating $15 charge on my card. Jerks.

So I went online to cancel it. Fortunately, I kept a record of my account name and password, even though you'd have to pay me to look at their dumb game again. So I logged on to cancel. Alas, you can't cancel from Warner Bros.' account -- you have to create a new one for Sony. And you can't do that without the serial number printed on the disc -- and I never got a disc.

So I tried the phone number associated with the credit card charge. After about 10 minutes long distance fighting my way through a series of voice menus, I found that they don't actually have people there except 9-5 Monday through Friday.

Jerks.

Filed Sat - September 9, 2006, 03:54 PM in

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