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."

Comments

Re:The acronym for The Matrix Online is MxO

[KDR_11k]

It's true for common acronyms but game names, for example, should be written out once in either the post or the story before you start using acronyms for them.

Re:From the article

[micpp]

It could be written in the way that most of the world uses, i.e. DD/MM/YYYY, which would make it the 8th of December. Not all of us write dates in your wacky American format. Personally, I think they should be written with the year first (YYYY/MM/DD), because it's easier to sort, but that's just me.

I can deal with Okuda

[Winterblink]

Okuda's got imagination. The ability to think up a bucketfull of technobullshit at the drop of a hat that not only sounds cool, but somehow plausible. With him involved, there's a very good chance Trek Online might actually have a measure of depth and challenge that would make it worth playing. Just keep the braindead regurgitators like Rick Berman the hell away from it, and all will be good.