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Enter The AOL Matrix - Matrix Online Using AOL IM

Posted by simoniker on from the neo25m-trinity23f dept.

Thanks to Reuters for its report discussing America Online's embedding of AOL Instant Messenger in the forthcoming PC MMORPG, The Matrix Online. According to the story, which points out that "America Online and [game publisher] Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment [are] both units of Time Warner Inc", aliases will be created: "Players will be able to keep their in-game identities separate from their regular or instant-messenger personas, AOL said, by linking their in-game name to their instant-messenger screen name." It explains: "When players sign in to the messenger service, 'buddies' they have made from within the game will see their in-game name, rather than their regular AOL or AIM identity."

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  1. Suspension of Disbelief by GTRacer · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'll be the first to admit that the concept behind The Matrix is one of the biggest mind-poppers I've yet seen. However, having AOL IM in-game will just make me think the Machine AI was either dumb or gullible for having installed any version of AOL...

    Phear my l33t 1m sk1llz...or not...

    GTRacer
    - The Matrix has you, indeed!

    --
    Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
  2. Oh god. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can see it now, a million variations on:

    Neo17327826: hi how r u asl lol!!!1!

    Sounds like a great time. I'll be sure to rush out and buy a copy of this game the moment it's released.

  3. Re:The Kiss of Death. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your comment was rejected: Not enough acronyms.

  4. What is the Matrix? by weeboo0104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Morpheus> "You are the one."

    Special Neo> "Yaaaaaaayy!"

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    It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
  5. In-game spam by nukem1999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    [player running down hallway, followed closely by a "train" of agents]
    [player executes Kung-Fu Kick +2 on door]
    [there is a ringing phone here]
    [player picks up phone]
    [pause as player expects to find logout menu]
    player> Hello?
    cam_chick_04> Hello %player%, check out my cam site, it's hot!
    [player gets shot repeatedly by train of agents]

  6. Haha.... by identity0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, this will be so funny, yet oddly appropriate...

    N3o: Wht iz teh M37rix?
    M00PHEUZ: t3h M00TRIX = wrld rnd u h1ding teh TR00th, d00d

    N30: i knw A1M-fu

    N3o: wh04

    Seriously, it really pisses me off that it's going to be a shitty action RPG. I wish they would actually use concepts from the movie and try to make it 'real' - like having every object's properties editable in-game if you achive Neo-like powers and stuff. So much potential, wasted...

  7. Mr. Anderson by Xian97 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems you have been leading two lives. In one life, you go by the screen name c00ld3wd69 on AOL, constantly posting off topic, reposting the original post of 1000 lines and only adding "I agree" to the discussion, joining every irc channel and begging for warez/pr0n/ops, and generally making a nuisance of yourself.

    In the other...you go by the AIM alias "ne0bie"...and spend all of your time seaching for trainers and aimbots for the game. When you actually play the game you just camp and shoot at friend and foe alike.

    Sadly, neither one of these has a future.

    1. Re:Mr. Anderson by b0r0din · · Score: 2, Funny
      It seems you have been leading two lives. In one life, you go by the screen name c00ld3wd69 on AOL, constantly posting off topic, reposting the original post of 1000 lines and only adding "I agree" to the discussion, joining every irc channel and begging for warez/pr0n/ops, and generally making a nuisance of yourself.

      In the other...you go by the AIM alias "ne0bie"...and spend all of your time seaching for trainers and aimbots for the game. When you actually play the game you just camp and shoot at friend and foe alike.

      Sadly, neither one of these has a future.


      I agree.

  8. Re:I want to be an agent. by happyhippy · · Score: 3, Funny
    And what are the enemies going to be like? THey all cant be just agents?

    Prepare to be whacking cyber-rats for the first ten levels.