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SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online
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?"
As a citizen of this country, which I believe in and which I have seen Sybert42 tear apart, I must offer a framework for discussion so that we can more quickly reach a consensus. Instead of focusing on why Sybert42 places his indelible imprimatur upon a form of terrorism that is fundamentally, pervasively, and inescapably unsympathetic, I would like to remind people that the very genesis of Sybert42's noxious précis is in mysticism. And it seems to me to be a neat bit of historic justice that he will eventually himself be destroyed by mysticism.
I do not find campaigns that are prudish, prolix, and pestiferous to be "funny". Maybe I lack a sense of humor but maybe the most shiftless devil-worshippers you'll ever see are intrigued and puzzled by Sybert42's amalgam of frightful favoritism and saturnine radicalismâ"a tangled web of KKK, Freudian, encounter-therapy, populist, Ayn Rand-like, and Marxist notions. And here, I insist, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in Sybert42's precepts. What we have been imparting to Sybert42â"or what he has been eliciting from usâ"is a half-submerged, barely intended logic, contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge. He likes destroying our moral fiber. That's the most damnable thing about him. It's also why it's undoubtedly a tragedy that Sybert42's goal in life is apparently to make our lives miserable. Here, I use the word "tragedy" as the philosopher Whitehead used it. Whitehead stated that "the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things," which I interpret as saying that Sybert42 sees himself as a postmodern equivalent of Marx's proletariat, revolutionizing the world by wresting it from its oppressors (viz., those who prevent his longiloquent plans for the future from spreading like a malignant tumor).
Don't be intimidated by Sybert42's threat to reduce us to acute penury. Perhaps if Sybert42 thought about it, he'd realize that his unctuous, jaundiced musings rot our minds with the hallucinatory drug of revisionism. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to deal summarily with self-indulgent, ungrateful idiots.
It may not seem to be very important right now, but thoughtful people are being forced to admit, after years of evading the truth, that I have been right. I was right when I said that Sybert42's faction is a distant cousin of the communist political organizations that were responsible for the murders of at least 90 million people. I was right when I said that Sybert42's machinations are part and parcel of a larger game plan to incite an atmosphere of violence and endangerment toward the good men, women, and children of this state. And I was right when I said that I recently overheard a couple of truculent sociopaths say that space aliens are out to lay eggs in our innards or ooze their alien hell-slime all over us. Here, again, we encounter the blurred thinking that is characteristic of this Sybert42-induced era of slogans and propaganda. He says that people are pawns to be used and manipulated. Should we care that large numbers of myopic polemics actually believe such audacious things? Should we try to convince them otherwise? I don't think so. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if he believes that it's okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the shabby hands of presumptuous, hotheaded ochlocrats, then it's obvious why he thinks that we can stop allotheism merely by permitting government officials entrée into private homes to search for sordid harijans.
Astute observers have known for years that Sybert42 gets a lot of perks from the system. True to form, he ceaselessly moves the goalposts to prevent others from benefiting from the same perks. This suggests that I intend to look closely at Sybert42's metanarratives to see what makes them so effectual at breaking down our communities. I should expect to findâ"this is a guess that I cur
On the contrary, hearing about something doesn't mean it's any good, either.
The contrary would be: "Everyone's heard about WoW precisely because it's so bad."
I played it for a few months, and liked it for the most part. Actually, it's the first computer game I've ever spent money on. Then I got to the raid-scheduling part, and realized my life is worth more than that.