ok, i am aussie, so my prices are jacked up no matter what i buy. When i got WoW the game was $120 and the game card was $50 for two months, within 2 weeks i was sooo bored with wow that i came back to rs, and made my account a member again. the following day, i sold wow to my neighbour for 15 months rs subscription ($12 a month) WoW has awsome graphics, it has sooo many idea's that jagex could use (gryphons, auction house, more equipabable items, more 'slots' (like 2 rings, shoulder pads etc) and tonnes of other great stuff) but really, they lack the holding ability with WoW. You can only train 2 skills, so if you get bored with them, time to make a new account or unlearn everything you have worked for. RS has, what i found to be, a much nicer community and probably more fun, RS has a more independant environment, on wow i kept getting stuck between lvl 15-20 cause i couldnt kill anything that gave me decent xp. in my opinion, rs is better value and better gameplay, who cares if the graphics are lagging and the world isnt even half as big to explore, who needs a life sized planet to live on in game.