Interview With Sundog of Radio Free Zion

RosethornKB writes "KillerBetties.com has an interview with Sundog of Radio Free Zion, an internet broadcast whose purpose is to entertain players of The Matrix Online and will broadcast live events when the game goes live. From the article: "Rosethorn: How will you manage multiple server coverage? Sundog: We are trying to develop enough of a following in beta to allow us to support a different stream for each server, with its own DJs and coverage. So far, the community has been wonderfully supportive of what we are trying to do and hopefully that will translate into the right numbers to allow us to expand that much when the game goes fully live this spring.""

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Now, this is awesome

[zwei2stein]

Now, this is awesome, one can listen to live broadcats from work, stregthening addiction more than ever.

Now if only they did WoW too :)

-- no, im not german

Clever idea

[chris09876]

The guy does have a point - communities are important in MM online games. I'm not sure music is the right way to bring everyone together (he identified the issue of people having different music tastes...). I know I'm quite picky about my music and I'd rather listen to things I enjoy. ...but having some kind of server-specific radio station talking about recent server events, or organizing current events would be quite cool.

Nice interview

[antivoid]

Not a bad interview...

I havent *actually *listened** to RFZ, but have heard it is relatively good...

I enjoyed the matrix movies, as well as the matrix music and so on that goes worth it.

I wander when the time will come that radio streams will overtake traditional FM radio in lister quantity... Can it happen?

City of Heroes did that already

[Walkiry]

Justice Radio has been doing pretty much the same in City of Heroes, specifically for the Justice server (funny that).

MAtrix Online : nuff said

[Gopal.V]

After I saw Ctrl+Alt+Del's review , I pretty much knew what would happen in this game. Now they have elevator music played to keep people around ?. (I hope it's not britney-pop ...)

Live audio with Shoutcast/Icecast is a great idea, but don't spoil my ping times with it (guess what *I* play).

Over-saturated market with bad movie tie-in?

[cyocum]

I was reading this with the thought, "After the last two movies flopped or were generally panned, why are they doing this?" The other thought that I had was, "isn't the MMORPG market over-saturated as it is?"

It seems that this is going to be a huge flop because of these two facts. Are we entering the age of horrible movie tie-in MMORPGs? Remember the last Matrix related game? It was pretty much running through hallways with 200+ pages of dialog.

FM

[HarveyBirdman]

I gave up on FM long ago. The self-important, annoying dumbass DJs just became too much. Oh, gee, the DJ just implied that at some time in his distant past he might have though about "toking a doob". Wow. What a fucking rebel! Ooo! He just made a joke implying Bush is a big dummy. Wow. What a fucking radical!

Just spin another corporate record, monkey-boy. And know that the ability of talking your blather over a song just until the vocals start is the most useless skill known to humanity.

Well, back to my MP3 harvesting.

In other news

[Tibor the Hun]

Both beta testers said they were deeply hurt when they realized that they were not in fact playing an online demo of TRON 2.0.

This isn't anything new or revolutionary.

[Anonymous Coward]

MMOG's have had radio stations dating back to the heyday of Ultima Online.

Gridstream Productions of Anarchy Online (www.gridstream.org) is by far the biggest and most successful MMOG radio station out there. Daily live DJ parties, constant music, and special events on the weekends... you name it, GSP has done it. Pretty much everyone who's played AO for longer than 2-3 months has heard of GSP or is an active listener. GSP has crashed entire zones of the world with thier parties. They take care of the musical genre problem by having a variety of DJ's who all have slightly different musical tastes. If you don't like the music one night, tune in another to see if you like the music then.

I'm more intrigued that theres a matrix MMORPG

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean wasn't the point of the movie that we're already in one?

Good Stuff

[th3walrus]

I used to broadcast a radio station for one of the in-game clubs for Anarchy Online when it first came out. It really helped build the community and immerse people in the club atmosphere.

We used to have dance competitions (as you could macro together different animations to create complex dance routines) and theme nights. Hell, I spent more time in the club playing music than I did out in the world on the level treadmill. Also I would do things like play "Bad Boys" when a group would walk in wearing cop armor.

Hopefully it will work out well for those Matrix inhabitants. My advice is tie it into the game world as much as possible. Set up a place in game to function as the radio station and have events. Radio "call-in" contests giving away in-game items might be cool to do. Things like that...

Re:Radio Free ?????

[mmkkbb]

NATO countries used to point antennas into the Eastern Bloc to broadcast non-state media. This was known as Radio Free Europe.

Re:Making jokes about George Bush

[MassacrE]

Um, just because he is president doesn't mean I have to like him, anymore than I am forced to like my boss or employer.

Luckily, I have a lot more choice when it comes to getting a job than getting elected, so I happen to enjoy and respect the people making at least some of the decisions touching my life.