The future of MXO...

Danger_Frog1471

I'd like to ask a question(s) to every person reading these forums:

Do you think personally MXO will ever pick up? After the scale of things went from good to bad to worse to 1hp. Then it began to slowly increase, buddy keys came out and more people joined. Will it ever get the promotion it so rightfully needs? Do you think SOE will take notice if it does increase and staff a few more DEV's? How do you see MXO in a year or two?

Answer by quoting and answering all that i asked please.

My opinion:

I think soon mxo will start to grow, i believe that sometime eventually (a year or so) there will be enough people to allow for some new tools for MXO (server,dev,let etc) It may take that time and other things like self promotion and LP2 but i hope it does happen.

Havocide

When the perma trial begins it will pick up and positive of it.

Though those going to the SOE Fanfaire, will make our voices heard im sure to =P

**PBlade**

The Free trial requires a large fanbase to be wanting to play MxO to give us a real boost. We'll be getting people curious to see what MxO's like, but there won't be droves of people.

The trial won't change much. At all.

Havocide

PBlade wrote:

The Free trial requires a large fanbase to be wanting to play MxO to give us a real boost. We'll be getting people curious to see what MxO's like, but there won't be droves of people.

The trial won't change much. At all.

Be more opptimisitc!! PBlade!

**Neoteny**

PBlade wrote:

The Free trial requires a large fanbase to be wanting to play MxO to give us a real boost. We'll be getting people curious to see what MxO's like, but there won't be droves of people.

The trial won't change much. At all.

If the trial shows up somewhere like fileplanet, I'm sure there's a good chance it could breathe a little new life into the game. And I think Raijinn said something about some hush hush marketing scheme... But then again, it seems everything he brings up is hush hush.

**SolidRevolver**

If we are the ones left to make sure everyone knows about the free trial then it wont change much, but if SOE make everyone hear about it then MxO could pick up. They also need to consider giving us at least one animator and start getting plans together for something that would require them to need a test server. As much as I hate to say it, MxO will always be on a slow decsent untill SOE do something.

Havocide

Good things come to those who wait!

**exsuscito**

Havocide wrote:

PBlade wrote:
The Free trial requires a large fanbase to be wanting to play MxO to give us a real boost. We'll be getting people curious to see what MxO's like, but there won't be droves of people.

The trial won't change much. At all.

Be more opptimisitc!! PBlade!

I share your sentiment, PBlade. No, Havocide, I won't. I'm pretty sure I speak for P too. You can be the eternal optimist, but your very existence demands an opposite.

Cynicism and pessimism are key components in identifying, and correcting flaws.

**DoE_Dominicco**

When the standing policy is to not advertise, not sell the product in stores, not add content, not fix know issues and treat customers as is they were on an /ignore list I would say the future is bleak. Pick up any gaming magazine and you will see adds for CoV/CoH, Everquest and even the dreaded WoW. Same thing if you walk into any Babbages, GameStop or Games-to-Go.

Yeah they fix misspellings in mission events and make black look black, but not a lot else seems to get the attention a game of this caliber could or should have.

**PBlade**

exsuscito wrote:

Havocide wrote:
PBlade wrote:
The Free trial requires a large fanbase to be wanting to play MxO to give us a real boost. We'll be getting people curious to see what MxO's like, but there won't be droves of people.

The trial won't change much. At all.

Be more opptimisitc!! PBlade!

I share your sentiment, PBlade. No, Havocide, I won't. I'm pretty sure I speak for P too. You can be the eternal optimist, but your very existence demands an opposite.
Cynicism and pessimism are key components in identifying, and correcting flaws.

Thanks. Optimism will get you nowhere. Pessemism isn't necessarily a flaw-solving component, but a keen sense of realism will perhaps ease the blow.

**Darkhorse**

im staying positive as well, been im mxo since may 7th of 2005 and still love it

**Procurator** · 05/19/2007 11:53:43

I don't see MxO picking up. The free trial will give us a boost in numbers, but nothing noticeable over the long term.

However, I don't see MxO dying out soon either. We'll continue plodding along like this for a couple of years; enjoying the storyline, making up our own, getting involved in the community, with the occasional new feature to give us something fresh to think about.

Darkhorse wrote:

im staying positive as well, been im mxo since may 7th of 2005 and still love it

Ooh, you just beat me. I've been in the game two years today. SMILEY

**PBlade** · 05/19/2007 11:55:13

Oh I don't see it dying for a while, no way. But I don't see a gigantic boost--the one we were all hoping for. Nobody should at this point.

Edit: Hehe, congratulations, Proccy! SMILEY

**Kemy**

This is the MXO we will have until they close down the servers. And that day will come eventually.
I don't think we'll get an extra dev.
We will get small things similar to the Area K quest and upcoming Corrupted quest. A few items every year, new crits and daily live events. That's the MXO we have and I don't see it changing. Since the beginning there have been more people quiting than signing up. Take a look over the server World forums for instance: I like to think for every player that announces they quit, 10 more decide to quit that don't check/post/read these forums.
It's good for my lag though. SMILEY

I've been getting a lot less lag as of late.

**exsuscito**

PBlade wrote:

Thanks. Optimism will get you nowhere. Pessemism isn't necessarily a flaw-solving component, but a keen sense of realism will perhaps ease the blow.

Said the spider to the fly; "You just sit there nonchalantly, but soon you'll take up residence in my web. Chances are, I'll eat you later on a cracker" Said the fly to the spider; "I doubt it, I came over whilst you were asleep and stung you. You have ten minutes to live" Spider: "...Touche, fly...touche..."

You see, pessimism saves lives.

In all seriousness, if no one ever questioned anything through natural cynicism, every single task or problem would be settled on the first solution suggested. Occam's razor due to lack of intelligible questioning.

"Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows"