IGN has interviewed the creators of the Matrix.
Paul Chadwick: What are you expecting to see from The Matrix Online?
The Wachowski Brothers: Our expectations are high, perhaps unreasonably so, but only because we’re as anxious for a really good MMO as every other gamer. Obviously the most important thing we’re looking for is for it to be fun, to be a game that we’d be interested in playing. Right now, the idea of MMOs, a multitude of gamers jacked into the same “computer generated dream world,” is more interesting than the games themselves. We are hoping that The Matrix Online changes that.
Check it out at IGN.