The MMO Deathwatch
Well, I guess Matrix Online is going to bite the big one to nobody’s surprise — except the surprise that this game kept going as long as it did. Remember, kids, SOE Station Access is more than just a great value, it’s a welfare shelter for MMOs that can’t earn a living themselves (not that I’m knocking the idea of Access — I think more companies should do it — but it certainly keeps games going on life support far past their right to continue operating)! 5 years… that’s a pretty decent span of time for a title that would’ve failed within a year had it not been picked up by SOE.
A side note: I found it kind of amusing that they announced MxO’s cancellation under the headline of “All Good Things Must End”. Was Matrix a “good thing”? Is anyone even playing it? Did you ever hear anything praise-worthy about the game after its release? I guess the developers need some validation from their hard work here, but… man, don’t be trumpeting this up more than you have any right to be doing.
So: Matrix Online. Shadowbane (maybe). Tabula Rasa. Auto Assault. It’s time to get a little morbid and start taking predictions: which MMO will be the next on the chopping block? I’ll refer back to this post when it happens, and winner will get a lifetime subscription to “You’re So Awesome” magazine.
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Pirates of the Burning Sea needs to go
That Blizzard game (what’s it called again) must be on its last legs by now. Surely it can’t last much longer
DAoC
EverQuest Online Adventures (EQOA) for the PS2.
Vanguard and Age of Conan.
Surely the Pirates of the Carribbean Online game will be the next to be guillotined!
I wanted to go back and try MxO several times but between the time when it was launched and when Sony took over i lost my games code and Sony lost my account in transfer and wanted the box’s code. Between the two and the fact that it didn’t have a free trail i never went back to MxO
Maybe Age of Conan – i played the free trial they were offering but didn’t seem very busy.
I got to be in the last few days of MxO beta, and I remember it being kinda fun. My character had a really funky look about him (fedora, workout gloves, club clothes, wicked-cool shades, tattoos up the ying-yang), and super-jumping to the top of a 1,000 story building where other players were kicking the crap out of forever-spawning Agents seemed neat for awhile too.
Then the sky turned red and grew eyes, and the (beta) MxO ended. I always thought about going back to check it out post-beta, but I never heard anything but bad news about it. A shame, really…