While waiting for a letter from Walrus, I pretty accidentally found his letter from 2007. The following lines sounded pretty ironic from the today's perspective:
"...And since the guys on MxO are pros at keeping the game going, I don't feel the need to constantly oversee what they're doing. However, I'm way overdue for sending out an update from my perspective.
Most of what "keeping the game going" means is moving the storyline along. This has always been the most important post-launch element for The Matrix Online and continues to be the case..."
Like someone once said, some things never change, while others do. I wonder what we'll read in the upcoming message from our Producer (assuming that it really is upcoming).
I supose he's waiting for some sort of decent or basicly not bad news to tell his down trodden public.
Zeac wrote:
I hope it comes soon
"Well, as long as we leave the plug in, you're going to uh... Stay in that coma right there, Jimmy."
Based on his responses to the questions from myself and others during the Anniversary party on Friday, Walrus' upcoming letter is going to be short and (not so) sweet. Not news that the game will be shutting down, but basically just confirmation that we're stuck in stasis right now without any real hope of things improving any time in the forseeable future. No updates. No new dev(s). No new content and/or storyline. No tools to assist players in creating their own. But the game will stay running as it is.
Darkhawk wrote:
All I say, since ppl are so eager for this letter thing, Be careful what you wish for. Are you all really sure you want to read this letter? What if it means the servers shut down and MxO end we have all been dreading (but not exactly unsuspecting)? Are you sure you want to read it then? I'll hope for the bight side, and it'll mean better news than that - but .. it's MxO after all. Wally will get to it when he gets to it. Maybe he doesn't want to put it out, because of the uproar that will ensue. Oh well.
I'd rather hear bad news than no news. I'd prefer to know if there is a shutdown date, if there is one, so I can plan accordingly. Always better to know the bad news then to keep things hidden from us (which accomplishes nothing except creating lots of resentment).
Shinryu wrote:
Thats a really sad way to go. Even if we had a dev commit 10% of his time, thats 10% more than we have already. I think its pretty miserable that there will be exactly zero content forevermore.
You know even doing a couple relatively simple things like a server merge and unlocking the Halloween & Winter masks would at least put us in a better place by way of entertaing ourselves and interacting with each other more in our current situation. I guess even that's too much to ask for.
Zero content forevermore. Think about it. This is where we are at now.
You know if I had the choice between death by entropy and attrition with the servers up, or a definate shutdown date I'd prefer a shutdown date....with like a month prior, turn the sky into the eyes in the sky, have nasty Machine messages on the billboards (like end of Beta), unlock Holiday Helpers, pumpkins, zombies, the Smith virus, just go all out in a full apocalytic bang!
Its an extremely sad state of affairs. Its almost worse than the servers shutting down then to leave the servers on up indefinately and empty. Who knows, maybe they'll pull the plug eventually.
Sorter wrote:
Darkhawk wrote:All I say, since ppl are so eager for this letter thing, Be careful what you wish for. Are you all really sure you want to read this letter? What if it means the servers shut down and MxO end we have all been dreading (but not exactly unsuspecting)? Are you sure you want to read it then? I'll hope for the bight side, and it'll mean better news than that - but .. it's MxO after all. Wally will get to it when he gets to it. Maybe he doesn't want to put it out, because of the uproar that will ensue. Oh well.I'd rather hear bad news than no news. I'd prefer to know if there is a shutdown date, if there is one, so I can plan accordingly. Always better to know the bad news then to keep things hidden from us (which accomplishes nothing except creating lots of resentment).
I hope SOE will see the Potencial of Mxo. With this License they can get more and more Money if they add Content. But now since Rarebit left ....
People are still waiting for the letter? It may yet appear, but it's not worth waiting for... it'll materialise when it materialises.
I guess the game is stuck like this now, and the letter will confirm this, but at $15 a month, well... that's a bit poor. I wouldn't mind an announcement that the price is going down.
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Procurator wrote:
People are still waiting for the letter? It may yet appear, but it's not worth waiting for... it'll materialise when it materialises.I guess the game is stuck like this now, and the letter will confirm this, but at $15 a month, well... that's a bit poor. I wouldn't mind an announcement that the price is going down.
i agree i like this game if i can id probaly play as long as i can but im having a hard time seeing what 15$ goes for when were not paying for any devs that work on this game and i doubt that 15 bucks is the cost for keeping the servers up.
SonnyBlack wrote:
Sorter wrote:Darkhawk wrote:All I say, since ppl are so eager for this letter thing, Be careful what you wish for. Are you all really sure you want to read this letter? What if it means the servers shut down and MxO end we have all been dreading (but not exactly unsuspecting)? Are you sure you want to read it then? I'll hope for the bight side, and it'll mean better news than that - but .. it's MxO after all. Wally will get to it when he gets to it. Maybe he doesn't want to put it out, because of the uproar that will ensue. Oh well.I'd rather hear bad news than no news. I'd prefer to know if there is a shutdown date, if there is one, so I can plan accordingly. Always better to know the bad news then to keep things hidden from us (which accomplishes nothing except creating lots of resentment).I hope SOE will see the Potencial of Mxo. With this License they can get more and more Money if they add Content. But now since Rarebit left ....
if they havent the last 3 years they had this game the wont now.
nubious81 wrote:
Procurator wrote:People are still waiting for the letter? It may yet appear, but it's not worth waiting for... it'll materialise when it materialises.I guess the game is stuck like this now, and the letter will confirm this, but at $15 a month, well... that's a bit poor. I wouldn't mind an announcement that the price is going down.i agree i like this game if i can id probaly play as long as i can but im having a hard time seeing what 15$ goes for when were not paying for any devs that work on this game and i doubt that 15 bucks is the cost for keeping the servers up.
QFT
Do not expect a Producer's Letter.Walrus was kind enough to answer some of our questions in the party..And believe me,you already know the answers!
