Matrix Online Goes Out With Style

[WorldCritic]

RIP Matrix Online, must ave been really cool to see.

 

[Halfbreed13]

Matrix Online, I salut thee.

*Salutes*

More failing MMOs should what Tabula Rasa and The Matrix did, it makes it feel more....I dunno, special or something.

I join in on this salute.
It of course is probably sad for the people who liked the game, but I respect Sony Online for handling the situation how it did.

 

[Bobby_C]

It's an old MMO tradition. Ultima Online's final beta was overrun by demons and fell prey to armageddon.

 

[Frapple]

I remember that, me and my friends all got one shot by a green dragon.

World of Warcraft Beta ended with Onyxia attacking Orgrimmar, was quite as the highest level was about 40.

 

[Grayl]

Good for Sony to make the death of an MMO an event.

It's just a shame that it wasn't good enough to last, like most of Sony's MMORPGs...

 

[Abedeus]

It's an old MMO tradition. Ultima Online's final beta was overrun by demons and fell prey to armageddon.

Guild Wars' beta ended with monsters and a cute little girl Gwen casting "Spontantenous Combustion" at people while spouting pop references and cute/scary lines like "Mommy told me not to play with fire. But mommy is dead."

There are still remains of that skill in game's data.

 

[Cortheya]

Wasn't there another MMO that did something like this not too long ago?

Indeed..I believe it was Tabula Rasa

 

[Aerodynamic]

Thats pretty cool, but i never even heard of this MMO Before :/

 

[geldonyetich]

Though later patches improved things a bit, it was always a tad too kludgy - sticky and rubberbandy even at its best. The combat mechanism was quite novel - it really could have been something if they had another few months of development before release.

 

[esperandote]

That sounds awesome. I would have liked to tried that.

 

[sneak_copter]

Aww. Never got a chance to check this out

 

[USSR]

I was planning on trying this out someday.

Come now, let us both cry in sorrow at our missed MMO.

*cries*

 

[KeyMaster45]

It made me kinda sad to see they were going to die when I read the article about it a month or so ago. Always wanted to try the game out but there was no free trial or anything for it, so I just opted to stay away.

If there was a free trial it was hidden away somewhere within the deepest bowls of the internet that not even google could find.

R.I.P Matrix Online, I never knew ye.

 

[Xvito]

A tear shed for the fallen...

--Xvito, keeping it excellent.

 

[Jeronus]

I find it wierd that a company would turn its failure into something that people can enjoy. Most companies wouldn't waste anymore time or money on a dying project. It is like putting firecrackers on a dying plant. It may seem entertaining but from a business standpoint it is a waste of firecrackers.

 

[asiepshtain]

If only they put that much creativity and flavour into it all the time, wouldn't have failed then.

 

[not a zaar]

I'm surprised the game lasted this long, it seemed to drop off the radar on launch day.

 

[CompanionCube]

Didn't Tabula Rasa do this? I want more MMO's to do this when there time comes.

 

[messy]

Can't wait to see how WoW "go out in style" probably break the internet

 

[Legion]

If only they put that much creativity and flavour into it all the time, wouldn't have failed then.

This post made my day.

It's surprising that A Matrix MMO could fail so badly, the whole idea of The Matrix fits perfectly into the genre, it must have been pretty bad.