The Matrix Online - Where It All Went Wrong

Gamer Limit writes "With all of the build up to E3, Sony did try to sneak the downfall of The Matrix Online past us. As an avid fan of The Matrix Trilogy and a long time player of MxO myself, the news that MxO was going to be unplugged definitely served as a downer for me."

[AcesAndEights]

Feels somewhat a shame I never got into this game, as I quite like MMOs (even bad ones) would have been nice to see what the fuss was before it all went the way of the dodo.

[The Matrix]

Being a small fan of The Matrix myself I would love to see the trilogy get a video game deserving of it's amazingness.

[Chubear]

I had always hoped this would find a home on current gen consoles but alas..

[vhero]

Played and maxed out my character when it very first started and for the first 2 month the weekly events were enough to keep me playing. When they made them fortnightly and less interesteing as well as killing off Morpheus I stopped playing as there was no links to the movies or the magic of the films anymore.

[Maddens Raiders]

"what happened to “They got Morpheus so lets get all of the guns, shoot all the dudes, blow up their place, and go back to the ship for lunch”? I guess before Neo’s Truce and Matrix Revolutions the Matrix Universe was pretty much the wild west, and the post Truce universe turned everything into C-Span."

LMAO - damn I hate that they killed it....

[Ziriux]

It surely wasn't the best, but I enjoyed the Matrix MMO, simply because I loved the Matrix universe, I'm willing to put up with a bad game if i'm a fan of the name and universe.

[StartWars]

It was indeed a dismal effort from what I've heard, but then so was Enter The Matrix.

[TheGameLlama]

I never got to play it either... In fact, I thought MxO disappeared a long time ago like Sims Online. But, looking from the outside in hindsight, it seems fairly obvious that the lack of listening to the people who ACTUALLY PLAY YOUR GAME was a poor choice.

Way to go, SOE! Let's take down EverQuest next!

[Tony P]

SOE has attached their names to some pretty decent MMOs and some pretty disappointing ones. But I don't think they even developed most of them, just published.

The most disappointing MMO they have actually made is probably Star Wars: Galaxies.

Edit: Tbh, I'm not sure who is actually maintaining the content after the game launches, developer or publisher. Or both.

[Eiffel]

Star Wars Galaxies was pretty fun but a bit broken..

[Baka-akaB]

Again it was a sega game (done by monolith studios) , and Sony is hardly responsible for it being pretty much unfixable crap to begin with .

[free2game365]

Monolith originally made the game and then it was sold over to SOE. They maintained and ran the game into the ground. Star Wars: Galaxies was an even worse case, it started out as extremely promising and even added space combat, then it was broken and casualized after WoW came out.

[MagicAccent]

Actually, SWG was a very good mmo. Before the stupid Combat Upgrade, followed by the killing blow of the New Game "Enhancements".

[San Frandisco]

Matrix Path of Neo wa the greatest matrix game EVER,and extreamly Fun.

[Baka-akaB]

Sony ? Ok they handled the game till it's "official death" , but it was a sega game anyway .

[NotSoSilentBob]

Tis said to see a great MMO go out like this. I played it from 2 weeks after it launched till 3 weeks after SoE took over, and at that point I knew it was going to fail because Sony was not listening to anything the community wanted. I had so many friends from MXo, sadly now I will not beable to get a free account and sign on to get in contact with them. I got banned for reporting over 3000 bugs/glitchs in 1 day. I kid you not the game had bugs and glitchs every step you took after sony did their first update. I was told
"You are abusing the reporting system, and it will not be tolerated."
and never even got to argue my case, so I filed a lawsuit and got my money back.

[chrisjc]

I'm glad I never payed money to play it.

[PirateThom]

SOE is definitely the "weak link" in Sony's developers.

[HDgamer]

EverCrack Says different.

[Baka-akaB]

I dont mind such claims , but it should rather appears for games SOE actually did , not some comatose game Sega published and done by monolith , they later acquired (god only knows why ...) .

[Tony P]

Yeah, but SOE was responsible for maintaining the game after release, so you can't totally blame SEGA and Monolith which had the game for only a few months. SOE has been in charge of its maintenance plus content updates for years afterwards. Obviously they have some fault. They are not an uninvolved party here.

It is not a bash against them to admit it. They have still done massively well with EQ properties.

[Perjoss]

evercrack was crazy popular because it was the only 3d mmo out there.

[Close_Second]

...is get rid of the last two movies. Matrix 2 and 3 were epic fails.