Sad news indeed, despite my personal misgivings about the way the story was developing (apologies if I was overly vocal) I never ceased to admire the dedication, ingeniuity and skill you always showed this game and moreover the classy way you handled its diverse community. You have a rare gift in juggling many diifering issues and personalities and I hope it will resurface somewhere else before long, from your announcement it seems the loss isn't just MxO but the gaming world in geneneral.

I had many, many happy experiences here and like many others, some still present and some who have moved on, you are owed a tremendous debt of gratitude for what you did and how you kept it going.

All the very best in whatever you turn your hand to next.

Tytanya

Tytanya!!

Thanks for the hard work and putting up with so much *rubbish*.

Sorry to see you leave MxO, but hopefully there are bigger and better things on your horizon.

"This is the way the world ends... Not with a bang, but with a whimper."
- T.S. Eliot

From all of us in WinterBrood-EPN, Thank YOU for all the good times, and sticking it out when things just weren't going your way cause of budgets and lack of help. 

We hope for all the best in your future endeavors, and perhaps if you decide to stay in the industry, we'll catch up to you in another game (God only knows how many games we're involved in now). 

If you would like, I could make you a honorary member of the Brood, just visit our website http://www.winterbrood.com , and either Personlll or myself will see that you get access. (btw, the zioncouncil.org site was us, just in case you didn't figure that out, but I'm sure you knew).

Best of Luck, Stay Safe, and don't allow anyone to put you down.

Thank YOU for your dedication and determination. Loved what was done in the earlier days of when you joined our community, but as the years passed thing's just seemed...off, which really isn't your fault. Again, Thanks for all of the hardwork you put into MxO.

Thanks for everything you have done throughout your time Rarebit. I have the deepest respect for your dedication effort put into Mxo.

Good luck with the future and may it bring good fortune with it.

Snipe104

Delicho wrote:

Brommerz77 wrote:

Sad times. I think we all agree that you have been wonderful for this game, and probably the sole reason it is still here, I wish you all the best with your future and appreciate everything you did.

Sadly this could be the final nail in the coffin for this game...

byond wrote:

All the best to ya Rarebit. I can only have negative thoughts about the future of MXO from this point foward. Hopefully i am wrong.

 

Aizehn wrote:

You will be missed Rarebit.  I'll always think of you as one of the only people who showed a genuine interest in this game and its players.  It won't be the same without you.

Archangel wrote:

Well, somebody just pulled MxO's jack.

 

Phluff wrote:

I am so sorry to see you go.  But you must do what is right for you.

You will never be forgotten by everyone here.

 

 

Brommerz77 wrote:

You made this game, and it is really is a sad day... You are pretty much solely responsible for what this game is, and it simply will not be the same. Like I said previously, all the best, and your efforts (despite the occasional poor reception) will never be forgotton and were never taken for granted. But yeah, sadly, this is probably it for MxO.

 

Fen wrote:

My heart just sank.

 

Croesis wrote:

An Era has ended.

 

 

 

Goodbye Rare.  It's been real.

I don't think I could have said it any better than what these people have already said. Rarebit, you really did make the Matrix Online for what it is, I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Take care Rarebit in RL and good fortunes in whatever endeavour you embark upon *hugs*.

As for everyone else, well I guess we will have to see what will happen after this, cross our fingers and hope for the best.

Manatik wrote:

Tytanya!!

WOW!!!!    

Most expensive thread in MxO history indeed. . . you owe me 15 bucks, Chamberlain. Just kidding, man. You know me: forum drama whore.

I can't say I am surprised by this news; I've been predicting this since June. Not surprised. . . but like all the others, greatly saddened all the same.

You see, it hasn't been the game that kept us here, or even the story so much. It's been the incredible level of devotion that you showed. To us. Not to the story. Or MxO the property. Or SOE the company. Your devotion to the fans is what kept us here. As long as you were willing to dish it out, we were willing to lap it up (even if it tasted funny at times).

I guess many of us sensed this was coming after the announcement of the New Approach. That's when the mass exodus began a second time, I believe. Wow. Who else can say that their level of activity in this game has meant so much to so many? Hell, not just for MxO, but any game, for that matter?

For 3 years, you have been serving us selflessly, staying late for an LE more times than . . . well, more times than you went home on time, working ridiculously hard to get out a hotfix for some stupid hard-coded bug in the latest update. You snuck in on weekends. You wrote story on holidays. Even when you were sick, you worked.

For us. 

I just wish there was something we could do for you, my friend. I could pledge to play every game that you ever have a hand in, but from the tone of your message, it doesn't sound as though you plan on continuing that career. So, I guess, if you ever find yourself headed to Nashville, shoot me an email. The least I could do is buy you a beer or three and reminisce about the good times.

Take care of you, Master Chamberlain. Temet Nosce.

It's been a pleasure to work with you Rarebit. Your dedication and your work on the project here has been memorable beyond belief and I believe I've not seen you forfeit a scheduled operation in the one year and a half I served with you, best of luck to all your endeavors whereever you plan to venture. I'll be watching for a book written by that bluepill Mr. Chamberlain in the Simulation at one point. And I do like the fact that you made the 66th update and the 13th as well... you know me, numbers and all. Heh-heh.

Neo Bless You.

~R.

You will never be forgotten.

"My Two Cents"

This, I'm sorry to say, could possibly help mxo. You seen what he wrote about the story being in our hands, well people, are those of you that have been around as long as I just going to let the overall story die? We are the Red Pills of a community where nothing was ever givin to us without us having to bish about it.  Perhaps now, it's finally time, to do what I've been saying this whole time, Give us some dev abilities so we can create our own events, I say give us the ability, through a pill to make hostiles appear outa no where and attack anyone.

Rare, you did try, you weren't given enough stuff to go with, however, the 1 really big mistake that you all made was never giving the players total control of this game. In my opinion this is the main reason MxO is going to die. You think that a small group of devs can continue a story as complex as The Matrix??????? Hell no! It's up to the creative minds of the people that loved it so much, why in the world did you ever give into us players by not focusing on the story and focusing more on bs content that only managed to drop people's intrest in the game even further.

TBH I never gave a **** about the content, I cared more about intresting new events that would happen from time to time, intresting new things that could happen, I for one know my charactor was a big! part of the matrix story, I for one know that most of the story that I attempted to go with was only to help this game. But this thread isn't about me, it's about This so called nail in the coffin I keep hearing about. Bish please. SOE ruined this game, the players kept it from dying for this long, we can revive it completely, content, story, it's all pointless without people here to witness and use it, we as the people should keep the story alive, we should be givin the tools by soe to do so, and if we succeed, we will be giving new content, new Devs and possibly even a new story that we, the mofos that have really been keeping this game alive, have made, there never really was a story, it was all bs stuff rare was just making up off the top of his head, the story should have went towards the war, and towards awsome fights and a winner in the battle. Not towards some wireframe bs that made NO SENSE AT ALL!!!!!! And not towards some bs content that really, anyone? Someone tell me how that is story based content? PLS?! I thought so, this game was never, and I mean NEVER about the content, it was about the story!!!!!!! Stop and think about that before you click the unsubbscribe button, think about it, just because we don't have live events, just because there is no dev to run the show, just because the content is no longer reuseable, doesn't mean the story has to end, this just means that SOE will no longer be writing the story, and we should.

I for one know, alot of you out there are good story tellers, you are good rpers, I when I put my mind to it could even come up with logical story, but one man, as you can see finally became overwelmed because everything was placed on his shoulders. The story should have always been writen by us, not by SOE, the game should be run by those truely dedicated to it and it's continuation, not by those just trying to make a quick buck. So I challenge you all, each and everyone that reads this post, those of you that don't want to see this story go down the crapper, those of you that think they can do better, write my friends, write the story and then, if you can, attempt to act it out, attempt to do what even the devs could not, Continue the story, the way it was ment to be done. By us!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I disagree with you on almost every account, Skull.

Also, while it would be hilarious if you sat down and seriously tried to right the story for MxO, if you were actually allowed to control it... well, I'd have to kill myself.

ShiXinFeng wrote:

For 3 years,

Wow, that says a lot, doesn't it?  Rarebit's welcome thread was only a phraction of the size of this good bye thread... so phar anyway.

I had to post again to praise all those who have re-subbed just to come here and say goodbye to Rarebit.  I'm sure it means a lot to him, and it means alot to me, and most likey, many many others.  Welcome back, even it it's only temporary, it is uplifting and inspiring to too see you all here, and paying your respects to the one man who deserves it most.  It's great to see you here.   And I hope we see more of you!

/phormalcurtsey

<3 you all

Endomorph wrote:

Goodbye Mxo?..

Oh and can i have your stuff? Including FM-1500.

second on that! ^^ hehe