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The End !!!
sanedor
Member Posts: 485
Looks like the end of Matrix Online is here, just got this
MPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR STATION ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION PLAN – THE MATRIX ONLINE SERVICE WILL END ON JULY 31, 2009
Dear Station Access Subscriber,
We want to inform you that on June 1, 2009, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) will suspend commercial services of THE MATRIX ONLINE (MxO). However, SOE will continue to operate the game service and players will still be able to play MxO through July 31, 2009. As of June 1, 2009, SOE will no longer offer customer support or provide updates for MxO. The removal of MxO from your Station Access subscription plan will not affect your Station Access subscription fees.
Between June 1, 2009 and July 31, 2009, all active Station Access accounts in good standing will be eligible to download a trial version of the current retail version of EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, and Star Wars Galaxies™ at no additional charge*. To access the game software, just download the Station Launcher application here: http://launcher.station.sony.com. To initiate the download of the Station Launcher click on the "DOWNLOAD BETA" button. Once the download is complete the Station Launcher application will serve as your one stop shop for access to all of the identified online games. In addition, SOE has recently added full Free Realms membership to the Station Access subscription plan, so if you have not yet tried Free Realms, we encourage you to visit www.freerealms.com to create a character and jump into the game!
We value having you in our player community and hope that you will continue to play our other great games. During the last two weeks that MxO will be available, we intend to initiate a world-ending event and invite all our active Station Access subscribers with MxO accounts in good standing to participate in bringing Mega City down together. We will go out with the same level of dramatic in-game event that has kept this game exciting over the years. Get ready to jack in and become part of the final chapter of the story!
We appreciate your loyalty and commitment and look forward to seeing you in another SOE game.
Sincerely,
Sony Online Entertainment
Well i never really played since beta, it seems the time was coming .
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It's still going? Wow, I thought someone would have took this round the back of the barn and shot it before now.
The ruptured capillaries in your nose belie the clarity of your wisdom.
Not surprising. With Free Realms now available, and DC Universe and The Agency on the horizon, looks like Sony is cleaning shop. How long til EQ1 follows? Nothing lasts forever. ( Except maybe WoW, like a cockroach.)
Ran for about 4.5 years, I lasted about a week.
SOE will never give up on SWG, they have a special "vision" for it!
Beer goggles?
The ruptured capillaries in your nose belie the clarity of your wisdom.
EQ still have some players left. Matrix had few if any.
SOE will run a game as long as they have enough players to rake in money on it, if they cancel any game it will most likely be SWG, Pirates and Vanguard. EQ 1 & 2 do have a lot more players and should be safe for the next year at least if not for a few more.
I hope they keep Vanguard up, or close it down and re-releasing a new version instead under a different name, the game is not that bad but it have very few players. A re-releasing or turning it into a F2P game would hopefully help, particulary if they finally fix the remaining bugs in the re-release.
As for Wow it will eventually close down too but that is most likely 10 years in the future or so.
Considering UO has been running for close to 12 years and EQ for over 10 I think it's safe to say WoW will be around for another 15-20 years, at least.
That is, unless Blizzard makes WoW2 and transfers all of the existing WoW characters over to it.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
EQ still have some players left. Matrix had few if any.
SOE will run a game as long as they have enough players to rake in money on it, if they cancel any game it will most likely be SWG, Pirates and Vanguard. EQ 1 & 2 do have a lot more players and should be safe for the next year at least if not for a few more.
I hope they keep Vanguard up, or close it down and re-releasing a new version instead under a different name, the game is not that bad but it have very few players. A re-releasing or turning it into a F2P game would hopefully help, particulary if they finally fix the remaining bugs in the re-release.
As for Wow it will eventually close down too but that is most likely 10 years in the future or so.
SWG do have more playtime on Xfire than what EQ/EQ2 has.
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
"You have the right not to be killed"
personally, i do not know any players in EQ2 who actually use XFire, so i would not go off of that for sub numbers...
EQ2 still has full servers also, so i do not see it going anywheres anytime soon...
as for MxO, i wonder if they will let us betas back in for free to cause some havok, i stopped playing when they killed morpheus (almost everyone i know stopped at this point)
i remember the end of Beta for this game, with the giant eyes in the sky, and the machines running around killing everyone, some people i ran across and i managed to hid from the chaos to see what exactly would happen right before they shut down the servers for release day, turns out all the did was crumple your character into a little ball, then DC you lol.
Another point tho, if they plan on taking this off the station access they should really adjust the price to reflect it, seeing as it has a higher sub monthly price then free realms...
http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/posts/list.m?topic_id=36300028715
In May 2004, I embarked upon a journey. I decided to take the red pill in a big way—I became the online community lead for The Matrix Online. Later that year, many of you joined me as you jacked in for the first time. It was a brand new world—a vision of online games that didn’t involve elves, spaceships, or dragons. We became part of the Matrix storyline; living our own adventures in the world painted by the movies.
It seems not so long ago I was jumping into Mara Central and going toe-to-toe with other devs at E3 2004. I had no idea this journey would take me to a whole different company, managing a major revision of the game, and my first producing gig. “Long, strange trip” doesn’t describe the half of it.
Now we’ve seen how far the rabbit hole goes and it’s time to wake up from that dream (or go back to sleep, depending how you look at it). On July 31, 2009, we will be jacking out for the last time. It’s a bittersweet moment for everyone involved with the game; as a player or as a developer.
It has been a good run. Where many games have fizzled out before or shortly after launch, by August we will have lived on in our home at SOE for more than 4 years. To this day, I have never worked with a community as dedicated as The Matrix Online community.
I’ll be at Fan Faire this year showing The Agency and hanging out with any redpills making the trip. The past couple years have been a blast, so I hope to see some of you there again..
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?
I have a lot of fond memories from my years working on MxO. We’ve had a good time in the Machines’ little playground and will be sad to see it end. I hope everyone enjoys the last few months of playing The Matrix Online.
See you on the other side.
Daniel “Walrus” Myers
Ure all crazy. Teh MXO is still goin strong and word is thet they are jus gonna release mxo2 so its jus temporarie. With thousinds of playas and daily events with all kinds of crazy stuff happenin why shut down? dont be stupid.
Hail Neo, full of pwnage, Morpheus is with thee
Blessed art thou among Zion, and blessed is the roundhouse against Smith.
Holy Neo, pray for us now, and at the hour of Victory, Amen.
MxO is shutting down. Visit SOE web if you doubt that. EQ1, no worries. It still somehow has a long list of servers and new ones opening soon. VG though, another story. Its uber guy got punted to EQ1 and no replacement in place... hmmm me smells the next shutdown. SWG is kind of funded by LA so it'll stay until LA pulls the plug... say around the launch of TOR. Just wish they would open it up like TR did so people could go have a look see before the funeral.
Well its SOE, I doubt they're gonna let inactive people play for free on the last month, they're gonna try to suck as much money out of people as they can, even though its ending already.
Got the email today as well.
I might log in for the farewell.
It is always sad to see an mmo die, but somethings always have to die when the new days dawn. With that said I expect sony might cut all the way back to just having EQ1, EQ2, and SWG if the economy keeps up like it is.
The first mmorpg SOE has shut down, from now on no SOE mmorpg is safe.
*fingers crossed they shut down SWG"
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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Lucas would not be under contract to SOE it would be the other way around since SOE has to pay Lucasarts for the license to use the Star Wars name, and if Lucas decided they wanted SWG closed it would have to be, cause the name and universe of the name if copyright owned by Lucas, and only leased to SOE.
As for BioWare not being a publisher that is true, they are a development house, one of the best in the business, however they are owned by one of the largest publishers in the business, EA. And as such SOE doesnt need to maek room for a game they will never touch.
My first MMO...my first disappointment. Rest in Peace.
This was my first MMO too. I loved it then, loved beta, was loads of fun and did go back after SOE took it over several times just to see who was still around. I still use Femtrix as my gaming email but I've never used the name in anyother game. I was hoping to find images I had of the end of beta but I guess I got rid of them long ago...I did find this old pic. That was the saddest moment in the time I played MxO. Thinking back now I can laugh at how silly I was then, to get so angry, but what did I know about gaming then. I was just a redpill pumped on the thrilogies and completely taken by the idea that I was there, in the matrix world, alongside Morpheous, Niobe, the Oracle, The Merovigian, etc. No other game has replaced that experience. Sometimes I miss the roleplay and the dancing in the clubs - LOL Oh well, c'est la vie!
So-so game, but great community.
The in game radio created groups with the same musical tastes and so created very fun/relaxed atmospheres within groupings which other MMOs seem to lack. Actually MxO is the only game which I have kept in touch with radom people I met in game after leaving the game and that is mostly connected to discussing music.
There are real lessons to be learned here from other MMO devs.
1. Shallow game play will drive players away
2. Give players a reason to connect beyond character advancement and communities will flurish
I just posted that as a contrast. I don't know if it is irony really. But still it is abit odd that SWG have higher numbers on Xfire then what EQ2 has. MxO was at 393 in the list when I made that check.
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
"You have the right not to be killed"
I just posted that as a contrast. I don't know if it is irony really. But still it is abit odd that SWG have higher numbers on Xfire then what EQ2 has. MxO was at 393 in the list when I made that check.
Its been stated and proven over and over again that Xfire numbers mean absolutely nothing. Nothing. I've never used it and very few people I've known in mmo's over the years have used it.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
The same peopel are going on to make "The Agency"
So there's another game to avoid!