Question about WoW

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A friend of mine has been playing World of Warcraft for a while and has convinced me to try the 10 day trial offer, after two days it looks like an interesting enough game. My only problem is the idea of paying for it.

There was another game I used to play called Runes of Magic which looked a lot like WoW, just with less races/etc, that was free to play (but had premium cash you could get for special items.)

So what I'm asking is, what is the reason to pay for WoW when there are other games just like it for free? At the moment the one advantage I can see is that my friend plays it, whereas I didn't know anyone playing Runes of Magic and never felt comfortable teaming up with strangers to go into dungeons.

I'd like to be able to play it with her, but I'm just the sort of person that needs a better reason than that to pay for it every month......

Way more people use WoW than Runes of Magic, meaning more people willing to do raids with you. The lack of a premium store for WoW also means more balanced gameplay.

I believe you can use a gift card (like from the grocery store) to pay for it.

WoW is worth every single penny of monthly pay. It really is, and it makes me sad that so many of my friends have never wanted to play it, only because of this reason. WoW has so many hundreds of reasons why it is worth it, I can't even begin to explain. Thousands of quests to do with more interactivety than ever, professions: engineering, where if you get such a high level at it you can make your own motorbike and a helicopter, blacksmithing where you can make armour and weapons, alchemy: make potions. Dungeons, raiding, battlegrounds, you know.

aside from having 12 million players (although they are spread out across dozens of servers) it is a fairly well balanced game (no race/class/faction is superior too all others in all ways), and it also has a huge and quite well thought out story, not to mention with the last expansion patch it got a much need graphics improvement.

If you have the expendable cash then go for it but if you have an internal battle over 15 dollars a month between wow time and say for example food, then it's best to wait until the rumors of wow going FTP become actual fact, like in about 10 years or so.