MxO sold to SOE?

[likwidtek]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!


BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA.

sigh.  figures.

UGH!  I'm speechless.

[Anonymous]

Guys this seems to be coming true.  More sites have received this news EVEN IGN.


http://games.slashdot.org/
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/pc/matrix-online-sold-staff-canned-108145.php
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/626/626233p1.html
http://plaguelands.com/?p=102

[likwidtek]

Edit: Yes, it's true. The story has been quadruple confirmed by four seperate sources on the inside. Word is official press announcements will come late today or tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

OK THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  PUT THIS IN YOUR SIG AT THE FORUMS TO SHOW SUPPORT WE MUST HELP THEM!!

[likwidtek]

from http://plaguelands.com/

SOE tumbles down the rabbit hole
Smedley: Hello MXO.

MXO: What do you want?

Smedley: I am the mmo architect. I created mmorpgs along with the internet and I have been waiting for you. Do you hear that sound? That is the sound of inevitability.

MXO: Fuck your inevitability - I know kung fu.

Smedley: You are here because Monolith’s reign on MXO is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, most of the development team will be eradicated and those who remain will be consolidated into agents and being an anomaly you will be placed under the SOE all-in-one-shit-pass.

MXO: Fuck the shit platter. You won’t let it happen, you can’t let it happen. You need competitors too steal ideas from.

Smedley: Denial happens to be the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed the mmo genre, and we have become exceedingly efficient in doing so.

MXO: The holy trinity!! NO!

Agent Brenlo: hahaha. Indeed, he is quicker than the others.

Corp News pops the red pill and unleashes the secret info.

According to some unnamed sources, MxO has been sold.

To Sony.

And except for 26 people, everyone’s been given their 60 day notice. That includes event staff.

Here’s to all the people looking for jobs. Good luck, gang.

I don’t think SOE’s acquisition of MXO is necessarily a bad thing. I’m sure those who will be getting the ban-stick feel differently, but for the players if SOE ends up adding MXO to the all-access-pass it will only make their lineup more lucrative and overall the behemoth momentum the pass is gaining it happens to be best deal in mmo gaming right now, that is unless of course you actually enjoy anything in their lineup, but it will definitely expose more mmo players to MXO, which is a good thing in itself.

I think the experience live-events provide are awesome, they can really enhance the playing experience given the right events add an array of dynamisms and can really effect the atmosphere of the world. Unfortunately, the suits encroached at greedville probably don’t feel the cost for running a ‘roleplay’ team is justified. I’m not certain how it will pan out if SOE really does cut off all live-events all together even after the transition is complete, but it will definitely be a pitfall if they take that course of action.

MXO is a niche mmo and it will never be a mainstream and you can forget about it ever sustaining over 400k subs on its own two-feet. In order for it to have any sort of potential the main theme based around the gameplay needs to be built around live-events and interchanging content (which from what I read is currently somewhat lacking - here’s another shitty mission with no real substance) or you will have another flop. Combine those two elements and strive for a more in breadth approach with the overall design and I think MXO can sustain slow term growth over a long period of time, similar to what we are currently seeing with Eve Online.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

haha i just put that as my sig right before you showed it.

and btw the whole LET has been fired to!

[Anonymous]

Smedley: Hello MXO.

MXO: What do you want?

Smedley: I am the mmo architect. I created mmorpgs along with the internet and I have been waiting for you. Do you hear that sound? That is the sound of inevitability.

MXO: Fuck your inevitability - I know kung fu.

Smedley: You are here because Monolith’s reign on MXO is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, most of the development team will be eradicated and those who remain will be consolidated into agents and being an anomaly you will be placed under the SOE all-in-one-shit-pass.

MXO: Fuck the shit platter. You won’t let it happen, you can’t let it happen. You need competitors too steal ideas from.

Smedley: Denial happens to be the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed the mmo genre, and we have become exceedingly efficient in doing so.

MXO: The holy trinity!! NO!

Agent Brenlo: hahaha. Indeed, he is quicker than the others.

ROFL

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

MXO: Fuck your inevitability - I know kung fu

that is the best line ever!

[Anonymous]

...

Well..

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So...

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What now, do we line up for our SOE 666 tattoos so we can keep playing?

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

whats sad is that i have seen ton of posts editied by walrus today in all those SOE threads and mostly to take out swearing and phone numbers to SOE and monolith, Wb etc. and he hasnt responded once.


to add somthing else to this you notice the LET doesnt use @lith.com or @wb.com anymore? they use @thematrixonline.com now for LET emails.

http://mxoboards.warnerbros.com/forums1/thread.jspa?threadID=7279&tstart=0

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

hahha oh shit Tbone you will love this in one of the threads there was this post

ya where is tbone wachowski when you need him? lol those angels oughta be furious fer sure if this goes down. can we all put furious before our faction names?

Bethlahem
TBM

[Anonymous]

THIS SO SUCKS EVERYTHING URG!!!!!!!!!!!  LET IS GONE! GOD DAMN YOU SONY YOU FUCK UP!

[Manic Velocity]

I'm calling shenanigans.  This is probably just wishful thinking on the part of some angry MxO player, and it's snowballed into one of thousands of online hoaxes.  Someone reads it on Slashdot and figures that it must be true because the internet never lies.  Then it's spread through a few message boards and within hours it's up on all the gaming sites.  And if it's up on all the gaming sites then it must be true because the internet never lies.

Why would WB sell their game to a rival company, just months after the game's release?

All this crap about "citing unnamed sources" is even more reason to not trust it.  Until you read an article about this which quotes viable sources from within Warner Brothers AND Sony, I'd suggest you take this news with a grain of salt.

[Fuse]

I agree with Manic, plus this is the first Relics (owner of AR) has heard of it. They talk to Lith representatives daily.

[Lithium]

Well good. Maybe Sony won't put things like interlock immunity into the game. Maybe things will get fixed. Can't be any worse than the job jason hall is doing. If were lucky maybe he'll get fired too.