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SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-can-only-show-you-the-door dept.

Yesterday, Sony Online Entertainment representative Daniel Myers announced that The Matrix Online will be shut down on July 31st. The game launched in 2005 after several delays and false starts, and shortly thereafter SOE bought the rights to operate the game from developer Monolith. Now, four years later, the game will join the ranks of closed MMOs. In a forum post, Myers said, "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?"

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  1. Re:Sounds normal to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Revolutions? trilogy?
    They only made one Matrix movie. *drags you off screen*

  2. Re:RSI by artor3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks, I was going to ask that. I was thought it was weird that they were making one final attempt to give their most loyal players Carpal Tunnel.

  3. Re:I'm pissed by ikkonoishi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah its hard for a game to get much word of mouth publicity when you can't tell people what its like because they have to experience it for themselves.

  4. As the Oracle Once Said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo.

  5. Re:More proof by MLS100 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, if only SOE had open sourced the Matrix world...

    Where Morpheus makes Neo read the matrix mailing list archives instead of giving him the pill.

    And instead of the climactic battle with Agent Smith, watch as Neo instead goes to the Matrix bugzilla and files a dupe bug report of an Agent attempting to kill him that's been open since the first alpha.

    In the exciting conclusion, the bug is patched but Neo doesn't have the right version of the new sound library they threw in with the bugfix release.

    Will he track down the new library version, compile and install the new dependencies that aren't in his package manager, install the library, and compile the new Matrix in time?!

    Stay tuned.

  6. Re:Sounds normal to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is there a noticeable difference in the weather when you're that far up on your high horse?

  7. Re:Sounds normal to me by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 2, Funny

    The second one was notable for its fight scenes and soundtrack. Worth a viewing for at least that.

  8. Re:Sounds normal to me by MRe_nl · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if you like continuous gunfire part three was fine.

    --
    "Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"