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Movie Based MMO Updates
Neo writes "The handover of The Matrix Online to SOE has finally begun with users given 45 days to convert their accounts over to SOE's Station system." Star Wars Galaxies, TMO's sister game, has been having its own troubles. A recent patch had to be removed from the live game because of overwhelming, crushing player protest. Another "Star" MMOG has new help this week, with none other than Michael Okuda signing on to work on the Star Trek Online Massive game. From the article: " A technical designer and all-around Star Trek guru, Okuda has worked as a technical consultant to the writers of The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine television series, as well as seven Star Trek films. He will primarily design the game's interface, along with serving as a more general Star Trek universe consultant."
Maybe you were thinking of The Sims Online (TSO) or you just thought you'd make up your own acronym and hoped no-one would notice. Fair enough.
BTW, the transition to SOE billing happened on the 15th of August. It's now the 22nd of August. So most people have already gone through the (mostly painless) process. We had one faction member lose his character for an hour or two, but for most people it was flawless.
The next major development event is the integration of the SOE cross game chat protocol. When that's done maybe we'll hear something from the Live Events team... and life inside MxO will continue to be interesting.
How we know is more important than what we know.
for anyone still playing SWG. Masochists really deserve what they get. It was clear literally years ago what SOE's strategy was. Its still carrying bugs from Beta, presumably because they are understaffed or underresourced or something, but they keep pumping those (purchasable) expansion packs out somehow. People waited for over a year for the promised combat fix/rebalance/revamp or whatever it ended up being called. And even then, its rubbish and not much better than the original system. From friends who foolishly stayed on I have heard some interesting stories. In particular, their CSRs have notably become steadily ruder, more isolated from management (they seem to know nothing more than the players 9 times out 10) and somewhat less able as time has gone by. Not surprised really, on a personal level it must be a nightmare to play the role of a steward on the deck of a virtual Titanic. Nerves are well and truly frayed in that quarter.
SWG has long since transcended gaming; I hear they are up for a Tony award under the heading "Longest running farce".
This is honestly not meant to be flame bait, if you're having a fine old time thats cool for you. But don't complain, SOE know for an absolute fact at this point their player base are essentially mugs who will put up with any old nonsense. If that wasn't true you'd have cancelled your account years ago.
Really, the writing is not so much on the wall about that game as carved into your eyeballs at this point.
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