You hear people saying bad things about the game all the time but the point is that they are still here, playing and PAYING so there has to be something about the game that keeps them here handing over cash.
I have been here since the end of March 2006 and I have been impressed with all the things being added, the White Hallway, the archive missions so if they keep adding things like this every year the game will get better, and it is already very good. It is my first MMO and I have tried others and no one has anything on MxO.
Long live MxO.
You hear people saying bad things about the game all the time but the point is that they are still here, playing and PAYING so there has to be something about the game that keeps them here handing over cash.I have been here since the end of March 2006 and I have been impressed with all the things being added, the White Hallway, the archive missions so if they keep adding things like this every year the game will get better, and it is already very good. It is my first MMO and I have tried others and no one has anything on MxO.Long live MxO.
Well I`m here coz I was actually gonna start a thread for this but seeing as theres already one here I`ll just use it,, I make no concessions for what I`m about to say these are my true thoughts regarding mxo and sony in there current state. I`m not here to try and get banned or get the staff`s backs up either, these are how I see things have developed over the course of time.SOE took over and literally stopped all storyline development in the game until they were able to revamp the combat system. Was it worth it? Yes there were flaws with the old system, but there have been plenty of flaws with the new one as well. I can't honestly say that the 3+ months it took to recode an existing game structure, test it, then release it was worth the hassle. They stopped the lifeblood of the game, and since it has never quite gotten back on track properly. They have yet to prove that they can pull off the server-wide events like 'Lith was able to do with The Race for The One, while Rarebit (bless his heart) has tried to bring back some of the small, low key meetings, people of all factions and orgs have emailing/im lists so huge now, that a small meeting with one faction turns into a server wide *CENSORED* fest/who can "/pvp" the fastest and kill the opposing org members. 'Lith had a vision for where this game was headed. They had storyline segments planned out for over a year. They had new skill trees and city areas planned, they had an adequte LET team to handle the demands of both large and small Live Events. SOE simply wanted another name to add to the station pass. I can't count the times that people see my xfire sig and say "Man, MxO is still around?!? I heard that SOE cancelled it because it was costing them more money to run than it was worth." Sadly, I think that this is becoming the evident truth. The 14-day trial was nice because it brought people back/into the game to see what it was about, but the simple fact that the game offers nothing more than non-existent storyline RP and mission grinding drove them away even faster than they came in the first place. Until SOE is willing to fully stock a team and money into this game, we will be playing a shell of a game with extreme potential. MxO promised to be one of the very first MMOs in history to have a fully immersive storyline that was in direct corelation with the movie franchise, and it has failed to deliver under Soe.At this point I think that SOE is scrambling to give the people still trying to rough it out what they want, which is total chaotic war. I don't like either the Mechs or Zion, but in all honesty, there never should have been a Mero organization in this game, same as there shouldn't be Cyphs or EPN. They are all pointless organizations that have nothing to add to the storyline, and at the end of the day, we are seeing how that affects us first hand. People are leaving the Mero camp in droves in preperation for where the storyline is actually (or should I say hopefully?) headed. Need further proof, look at the newest set of crits in the game... Who cares what lesbian trampy exile is sleeping with another trampy lesbian exile? They are struggling to give the Mero camp a purpose at this point, and it's failing miserably. Mxo if you dont actually use the station pass (like me) is actually one of the highest priced mmo`s out there and what do we get for it? Lack of staff, Lack of funding and nothing to do, I`m paying 15 quid a month to log in and stand around bored for 8 hours a day. The recent no updates/events over the xmas period has literally been the icing on the cake for me,, I came on in the first day of it done my xmas mishes and got all the items within an hour, I havent logged in since. Recently I`ve been closed beta testing 9 Dragons, now I`m using this as an example but 9D once its fully OB (in pre-OB at mo) is going to be a free game with free subscription. Which acclaim fully intend to add 20 to 40 quests per month as well as live events to cover the storylines of the clans within the game leading up to where ever its going. I have to say it puts Soe and Mxo to utter shame in the content stakes, even in CB it makes mxo look like the unfinished project it is. What I`m getting at here is not an advert for 9D,, far from it,, what I`m saying is with such releases for 2007 coming up with names such as Lotro, stargate online, star trek online, pirates of the caribbean online, vanguard, 9D, 2 Moons and even Underworld online, the very names leave mxo players in doubt of where there game is going, I myself and a good few other mxo players I am good friends with are getting first hand looks/play testing at these games and Soe really need to pull somthing out of there butt and they need to do it yesterday........With the sad state of funding/staffing from soe this looks like its not gonna happen in mxo anytime soon and the remaining playerbase is just gonna dwindle away until literally no one is left,, take a look at all those hardlines you have,, how many of them are populated? mara c, tabor w and camon c, how many times do you bump into even just one person in districts outside of richland? you can see it everywhere that theres a lack of players ingame also.my last point is with the ccr`s, personally I feel you guys are not doing your jobs, we see all these people on Syntax (dare say it happens on the other servers tho not as much) point blank going out of there way to ruin events, smacktalk even the devs playing the movie chars along with smacktalking players and generally abusing every rule set in the t & c`s for this game and you guys sit back and do nothing. There were a few well known uk mags who recently re-tested mxo on request of a player who re-reviewed it himself in the blind hope of attracting new players and off his/her own back giving some free advertising for you Soe and the magazines after testing basically all came to the same conclusion:- lush gfx, massive detailed world, excellent potential for storyline/rp if funded/staffed properly but let down by the community of players who will either help you or abuse you. (the main let down obviously the abusers)With all being said I`m not going to apologise to any of the Soe staff if they feel I`ve offended them with what I`ve said, I`m just one of many that are trying to make you realise you are sitting on a goldmine with mxo if only you would get your finger out and fund/staff it properly to let it take off in the way it did when `lith was running the show. Obviously by my post i guess people can probably tell I`m getting pretty much fed up paying for this worthless empty piece of crap you call an mmo at the moment.
Well I`m here coz I was actually gonna start a thread for this but seeing as theres already one here I`ll just use it,, I make no concessions for what I`m about to say these are my true thoughts regarding mxo and sony in there current state. I`m not here to try and get banned or get the staff`s backs up either, these are how I see things have developed over the course of time.
SOE took over and literally stopped all storyline development in the game until they were able to revamp the combat system. Was it worth it? Yes there were flaws with the old system, but there have been plenty of flaws with the new one as well. I can't honestly say that the 3+ months it took to recode an existing game structure, test it, then release it was worth the hassle. They stopped the lifeblood of the game, and since it has never quite gotten back on track properly. They have yet to prove that they can pull off the server-wide events like 'Lith was able to do with The Race for The One, while Rarebit (bless his heart) has tried to bring back some of the small, low key meetings, people of all factions and orgs have emailing/im lists so huge now, that a small meeting with one faction turns into a server wide *CENSORED* fest/who can "/pvp" the fastest and kill the opposing org members. 'Lith had a vision for where this game was headed. They had storyline segments planned out for over a year. They had new skill trees and city areas planned, they had an adequte LET team to handle the demands of both large and small Live Events. SOE simply wanted another name to add to the station pass. I can't count the times that people see my xfire sig and say "Man, MxO is still around?!? I heard that SOE cancelled it because it was costing them more money to run than it was worth." Sadly, I think that this is becoming the evident truth. The 14-day trial was nice because it brought people back/into the game to see what it was about, but the simple fact that the game offers nothing more than non-existent storyline RP and mission grinding drove them away even faster than they came in the first place. Until SOE is willing to fully stock a team and money into this game, we will be playing a shell of a game with extreme potential. MxO promised to be one of the very first MMOs in history to have a fully immersive storyline that was in direct corelation with the movie franchise, and it has failed to deliver under Soe.
At this point I think that SOE is scrambling to give the people still trying to rough it out what they want, which is total chaotic war. I don't like either the Mechs or Zion, but in all honesty, there never should have been a Mero organization in this game, same as there shouldn't be Cyphs or EPN. They are all pointless organizations that have nothing to add to the storyline, and at the end of the day, we are seeing how that affects us first hand. People are leaving the Mero camp in droves in preperation for where the storyline is actually (or should I say hopefully?) headed. Need further proof, look at the newest set of crits in the game... Who cares what lesbian trampy exile is sleeping with another trampy lesbian exile? They are struggling to give the Mero camp a purpose at this point, and it's failing miserably. Mxo if you dont actually use the station pass (like me) is actually one of the highest priced mmo`s out there and what do we get for it? Lack of staff, Lack of funding and nothing to do, I`m paying 15 quid a month to log in and stand around bored for 8 hours a day. The recent no updates/events over the xmas period has literally been the icing on the cake for me,, I came on in the first day of it done my xmas mishes and got all the items within an hour, I havent logged in since.
Recently I`ve been closed beta testing 9 Dragons, now I`m using this as an example but 9D once its fully OB (in pre-OB at mo) is going to be a free game with free subscription. Which acclaim fully intend to add 20 to 40 quests per month as well as live events to cover the storylines of the clans within the game leading up to where ever its going. I have to say it puts Soe and Mxo to utter shame in the content stakes, even in CB it makes mxo look like the unfinished project it is. What I`m getting at here is not an advert for 9D,, far from it,, what I`m saying is with such releases for 2007 coming up with names such as Lotro, stargate online, star trek online, pirates of the caribbean online, vanguard, 9D, 2 Moons and even Underworld online, the very names leave mxo players in doubt of where there game is going, I myself and a good few other mxo players I am good friends with are getting first hand looks/play testing at these games and Soe really need to pull somthing out of there butt and they need to do it yesterday........
With the sad state of funding/staffing from soe this looks like its not gonna happen in mxo anytime soon and the remaining playerbase is just gonna dwindle away until literally no one is left,, take a look at all those hardlines you have,, how many of them are populated? mara c, tabor w and camon c, how many times do you bump into even just one person in districts outside of richland? you can see it everywhere that theres a lack of players ingame also.
my last point is with the ccr`s, personally I feel you guys are not doing your jobs, we see all these people on Syntax (dare say it happens on the other servers tho not as much) point blank going out of there way to ruin events, smacktalk even the devs playing the movie chars along with smacktalking players and generally abusing every rule set in the t & c`s for this game and you guys sit back and do nothing. There were a few well known uk mags who recently re-tested mxo on request of a player who re-reviewed it himself in the blind hope of attracting new players and off his/her own back giving some free advertising for you Soe and the magazines after testing basically all came to the same conclusion:- lush gfx, massive detailed world, excellent potential for storyline/rp if funded/staffed properly but let down by the community of players who will either help you or abuse you. (the main let down obviously the abusers)
With all being said I`m not going to apologise to any of the Soe staff if they feel I`ve offended them with what I`ve said, I`m just one of many that are trying to make you realise you are sitting on a goldmine with mxo if only you would get your finger out and fund/staff it properly to let it take off in the way it did when `lith was running the show. Obviously by my post i guess people can probably tell I`m getting pretty much fed up paying for this worthless empty piece of crap you call an mmo at the moment.
dunno it seems fine i live mxo mainly cus it was my 1st mmo ever, I WOULD NEVER STOP PLAYING THIS GAME MXO ROCKS!
Trucidos, I don't think I have ever seen someone as negative as you. In any post I see, regardless of the forum or topic at hand, you continue to downplay MxO in every single category possible. The question is: why are you still here?
The storyline is horribly repetitive and not integrated into the game in anyway. (Powerplays anyone...have you participated in these powerplays?) Sorry, but missions and events are very well integrated into the game. "Horribly repetetive" might be a matter of taste, it's hardly mine. There are no quests. PB is a quest, its existence already disproves "no quests". There are very few contacts. Although I realize some other games have much more, 51 are still more than "very few". The live events are elitists events because the goddamn game can't handle more than a handful of people in one area. There really have been lots of examples that sorta prove the opposite. Or do you think this whole crowd shouting stupid nonsense at the Kid and the Oracle, or zerging Unlimit bosses was selected elite?
20136098 wrote:You hear people saying bad things about the game all the time but the point is that they are still here, playing and PAYING so there has to be something about the game that keeps them here handing over cash.I have been here since the end of March 2006 and I have been impressed with all the things being added, the White Hallway, the archive missions so if they keep adding things like this every year the game will get better, and it is already very good. It is my first MMO and I have tried others and no one has anything on MxO.Long live MxO.Someone bought me a year subscription its the only reason I still log in let alone post. On that note your one person. Your opinion does not reflect the success of a game subscription numbers and the ability to release actual functional content does.
(( they are still here because they like that game and still hope something better....
It's clear MxO is not really the Main Game in the StationPass.
And who knows what Mxo would become if SOE did not buy it.... just stopped ?
I am like all the others i hope... but since the dev team is reduced to minimum. MxO won't change a lot. We are just stucked with the current game. And after a few months? years? of playing, people get tired. That's why they complain. Other MMO got kinda add on. I don't expect anything that way for MxO anymore.
But yes i am still here. like many.
and i don't say the game is bad ))
Remag_Div wrote:Trucidos, I don't think I have ever seen someone as negative as you. In any post I see, regardless of the forum or topic at hand, you continue to downplay MxO in every single category possible. The question is: why are you still here? Like me, he has an account that's paid in advance. Honesty, REMAG or ANYONE, which gameplay category isn't MxO substandard? Combat kicks butt; but is horribly bugged. Exploits are treated as a part of the game. (Jumping to break shield) Parts of the game are treated as exploits. (Supernodes) The missions are training missions. (Timers) No idea what Reputation means. (Self-explanatory) No idea what a CQ is. (You killed someone, so what) The storyline is horribly repetitive and not integrated into the game in anyway. (Powerplays anyone...have you participated in these powerplays?) There are no quests. There are very few contacts. The live events are elitists events because the goddamn game can't handle more than a handful of people in one area. So is the question; we're being negative because the game is SO great or is it you just have very little experience and can't tell the difference. I'm guessing the latter and I'm also going to guess that you're going to have such a hard time proving the former that you're going to personally attack me.) Don't worry, I'm going to switch over to Station Pass and try God and Heroes and DC universe when it comes out. I tend to get pissed off when people have to lie (withhold information) to get people to participate in their enterprise. They know they are wrong. I tend to make fun of those people who go on with that lie without question. Sorry, rabbit trix are for kids. Oh wait. Want to guess how they view us?
I must say I agree with quite a lot of what Tzah said about MXO. I disagree with the Merovingian org having no place in the major storyline and that it shouldn't be a joinable organization. The Matrix itself is a giant program, with countless other sub-programs running within it. Like the Oracle said, some of them you see all the time while others, you don't even know they are there. Not to mention exile programs and machine programs running lose in the Matrix. They are an important part in the entire Matrix story, whether this game was ever made or not.
Open your minds and truly give this some more thought. There are 3 major living beings in the storyline: Man, Machine and Program. Simple as that. What they all have in common is the desire to live or survive some bloody struggle. Exiles and programs would do whatever they could to avert all of humanity from awakening as that would spell the end of the Matrix (their home) and themselves. The Machines cannot allow this as humanity is their source of survival and at the same time the Machines are a source for humanity's survival.
Anyhow, back on topic. Everything is taking forever for MXO. Almost none of my expectations have been met to date I'm sad to say. With the recent update I must admit I was rather impressed. It still isn't very close to what I want or expect but it's a baby step in the right direction. I hope these baby steps continue and my (and others) expectations for MXO are realized. I remember reading somewhere that having children in-game was an impossibility. A recent Zion critical mission concerning a rather young exile program nearly squashed this so called impossibility and I was actually exstatic!
In short I think MXO is moving (slowly but surely) in the desired direction. I still have high hopes for this, the greatest possible MMORPG of the current time, The Matrix Online!
P.S. Pointing out that some players who have some disappointment with MxO still pay and still play is a waste of time guys. Come on, you know you agree with at least some of their points. You also know why they still play as well. They love the Matrix, they love the community we are a part of and still have hope. Quite possibly the reason you still pay to play.
