The Matrix Online Producer Letter

**Darminian**

I want to complain about this, really i do - but i still can't get SWG working, so my escape pod is failing. Thank god for blizzard.

~Darminian

**AltDimension**

NightTrace wrote:

The party is going to have some very....interesting conversation I'm sure.

QFT! They should have told us this after the party...

Well that kinda sucks. And I'm thinking that next year the plug is going to be pulled...

**Neoteny**

So I guess it shows that Cinematics were the one and only thing that really required Chadwick.

I'm honestly not too dismayed about their loss. I will be interested to see how events in the Real will be portrayed now (if at all), however... If not properly executed, that's about the only thing that would me about the lack of a cinematic approach. Let's be honest here, most of the cinematics following the "comic" format really weren't that well-executed, and were largely about 13 different drawings with pop-up book animations. If properly done, the Sentinel could go beyond that, easily. Additionally, we already have a means of playing sound clips in-game through "audio recordings" and the like, if voice actors are to see further use (I doubt it).

Everything else is pretty standard, I guess.

**Fen** · 03/21/2008 12:09:53

You have got to be kidding me. No more cinematics?

How many fan-made videos have you seen made? This community has a CRAPLOAD of awesome directors and machinima makers.

If that's not the route you want to take and you want to stick with the "drawn" style, have you not seen the fanart section? There are some TRULY great artists in our midst that would be more than happy to do the cinematics for you.

Get the thumb out of your rear and use the greatest resource you have available. The group of people that pay YOU (as opposed to you paying someone to do it) and love this game.

**Roukan**

**Ebola**

My heart is broken

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**NightTrace** · 03/21/2008 12:00:05

*inappropriate*

DevilsArms

HAHAHAHAHAHA

OH WOW

Ok im not try to take the mic here, but SOE do you wonder why you are loosing subscribers? No seriously. I'm suprised that people even pay for this game anymore.

**zdn16**

...I would send Rare a $30 check in the mail to get FRAPS.

**MxO-Insertion**

Considering how active Walrus used to be in this game, all throughout beta and into live until he began work on The Agency, it's such a bother to see him rarely give this community attention at all.

So, after an hour of disappointment, it would be nice to see Walrus reply to some things suggested in this thread.

**NightTrace**

Sure thing insertion, give it about another eight months and half our player base gone and he'll get back to you ok?

**Virrago**

AltDimension wrote:

And I'm thinking that next year the plug is going to be pulled...

That's not going to happen.

**Croesis**

Hmmm.... How would a Bluepill Newspaper... (I've always assumed it was a bluepill newspaper with redpill hidden meanings in it...) report on goings on outside the simulation? There is still a conflict going on, admittedly it's taken a backseat to the Halborne situation so how will that get reported? I have every cinematic on CD and was planning on making a DvD disc with them on to go with my other Matrix DvD collections, I feel it's a shame that I'll have no more to add... perhaps I'll have to store the Sentinel images on it as a slideshow....

**NightTrace** · 03/21/2008 12:06:57

Virrago wrote:

AltDimension wrote:
And I'm thinking that next year the plug is going to be pulled...

That's not going to happen.

So long as the playerbase brings enough intake in to cover costs of servers+devs we stay an active MMO.

That does not promise any content/good news/effort.

They can cut costs by cutting features as they see fit.

IE: See Cinimatics.

But they are not flat out ending MxO.

However, it is a very self defeating *CENSORED* purpose isnt it? They will cut features/costs until the playerbase is gone and THEN they will shut us down.

Thanks SOE for the consistent *CENSORED* you've given us over the years of our games span.

**machete** · 03/21/2008 12:12:17

I am not gonna hide the fact that I am mad.... For 3 years we have been here and each year more and more gets taken from us. Bad move announcing this the day of the party....

Fenshire said it best when he said...

You have got to be *CENSORED* kidding me. No more cinematics?

How many fan-made videos have you seen made? This community has a CRAPLOAD of awesome directors and machinima makers.

If that's not the route you want to take and you want to stick with the "drawn" style, have you not seen the fanart section? There are some TRULY great artists in our midst that would be more than happy to do the cinematics for you.

Get the thumb out of your rear and use the greatest resource you have available. The group of people that pay YOU (as opposed to you paying someone to do it) and love this game.