It has been a bad year or two for the MMO industry. A number of high profile MMOs closed down, and a few more are hanging by a thread. Others started with million+ sales (Age of Conan, Warhammer) and have since dwindled to around 100,000 subscribers.
What happens to the players when an MMO dies? Do they simply move on to another MMO? Do they go to WoW? Do they become fed up with the whole genre?
Losing your favorite MMO is worse in many ways than having a favorite TV show get cancelled. You can't load up the DVD and watch it all over again. When the MMO closes up, its gone. Your characters are gone. Unless someone sets up a pirate server (which is rare), its over.
How does this affect the industry, and how do players cope?
IGN : Remember Hellgate: London? The dark fantasy action role-playing game came out in 2007 for PC, a year before developer Flagship Studios went bankrupt. Since then, various free-to-play and online revivals have come and gone. Now, 17 years after the release of Hellgate: London, it’s back.
I remember some friends and I all bought Hellgate: London day one because it was made by some original Diablo devs. We had fun playing it, good memories.
Gaming culture as a whole has always been one of the main sources of inspiration for the whole Matrix universe, and it’s only fair that, upon the franchise’s return to the big screen, gamers should get a piece of the green-tinted action too.
Considering its status as a pop culture icon that spawned half a million memes and imitators, it’s quite surprising how few Matrix games there are.
You are mistaken, we just wanted a good Matrix game so bad that we said it was great.
roadkillers is so correct.
It remains a mystery how a great Matrix game has yet to be made...
Perfect opportunity to right this wrong committed so many years ago ! Lol bring us a matrix game worthy of the one himself !
I would kill to see Remedy (Control) develop a remake of Path of Neo. If ever there was a case for a game being remade, PoN couldn't be more deserving. Well, that and maybe the original Metal Gear 1 & 2.
I loved Enter The Matrix but was probably the minority and being a teenager with lower gaming standards probably helped.
There was a Matrix game pretty damn good that I played from start to finish, I think it was the path of Neo I think that was the one. :D
I did not like the Enter the Matrix game with Ghost and Niobi, but played the heck out of Path of Neo.
Roper is doing his best to flagship Champions Online as well.
Insane respec costs.
Nerfs every few days.
Ugh.
Just goes to show you what happens when a finite number of people are given too many options.
Man, I remember reading all the hype about Tabula Rasa too!