SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 29, 2009 @04:08PM 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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Re:I'm pissed by Jurily · 2009-05-29 17:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

I didn't know there was a matrix MMO- and I'm pissed to hear it's shutting down, because I would've played it.
The fact you never heard of it kind of proves how good it was. I mean, when was the last time you met someone who was under 50 and never heard of WoW?