SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online 111
Yesterday, Sony Online Entertainment representative Daniel Myers announced that The Matrix Online will be shut down on July 31st. The game launched in 2005 after several delays and false starts, and shortly thereafter SOE bought the rights to operate the game from developer Monolith. Now, four years later, the game will join the ranks of closed MMOs. In a forum post, Myers said, "The team will also be whipping up an end-of-the-world event. It won't be quite the same as having over 100 developers in the game as Agents like when we ended beta, but we have 4 years of tricks up our sleeve. It'll be a chance to revisit all the things that make MxO the memorable experience it is. And how could we pull the plug without crushing everyone's RSI just one more time?"
Re:Sounds normal to me (Score:3, Insightful)
Well it's a trilogy, not a movie. And two of the movies sucked. And one was alright but still overrated.
Re:I'm pissed (Score:5, Insightful)
I didn't know there was a matrix MMO- and I'm pissed to hear it's shutting down, because I would've played it.
The fact you never heard of it kind of proves how good it was. I mean, when was the last time you met someone who was under 50 and never heard of WoW?
Re:I'm pissed (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I'm pissed (Score:4, Insightful)
Is there a failed MMO graveyard? Like a wiki where we could post MMOs that have died and analysis of what went wrong?
SOE...Always messing things up! (Score:1, Insightful)
That's really a shame...Well just like the other MMO that SOE got it hands on, the marvelous jewel that was tarnished by the grimy hands of SOE, you guys know what I'm talking about SWG! I swear it's like SOE had to go ahead and destroy everything that has the potential to be awesome or that was awesome. SWG was the greatest MMO I had ever played and they came along and ruined it!
now "The Matrix" has to suffer because of their evil! I wish I was a billionaire so I could use my money for the greater good, and that's Buying SWG from SOE and pressing the reset button so it would become the Great game that it once was before SOE.
Re:SOE...Always messing things up! (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah they did basically the same thing with planetside too.
The definitive end of The Matrix (Score:3, Insightful)
Fun fact; the MMORPG was actually considered canon. So when the game ends, that, rather than the third movie, will be the actual end of the story.
The fact that, from what I read at least, it was so story driven in nature was probably what ensured that it only had a finite lifespan. If WoW's devs hadn't screwed the class dynamics to the degree they have since 3.0, that game could have conceivably lasted more or less forever on the basis of the pre-existing content, without any further developer interaction.
MxO, however, was different. It was apparently built around ongoing episodic/developer involvement, and comparitively speaking there apparently wasn't a lot of repetitive/static content at all. As a result, once the devs stopped doing the live stuff, the game itself would die.
The franchise has existed for ten years, and that is a better run than many get; I know the screenplay of the first movie more intimately than Muslims are supposed to know the Qu'ran. Although I've still got it on my hard drive, I also wouldn't have watched it more than probably three times in the last five years; I saw it literally close to 100 times within the first six months of its' release, and I've since got it out of my system.
Adios, Neo. It's been a great ride.
Re:I'm pissed (Score:2, Insightful)
We can rebuild it. We have the technology.
But we don't want to spend a lot of money.