Procurator wrote:

Not sure about The Last Free City. Sounds nice and it doesn't seem like it's going anywhere, but it's a different community. Would the migration of the MxO community to the LFC community really work out? The MxO community is distinctive; we know each other, we have our own RP and the like. Cohabiting with another community wouldn't work out too well if you ask me. It wouldn't be a natural place to, say, continue our RP (for those who care).

Great for general Matrix stuff, but not for MxO.

Luckily, it's a fairly accepting community for true Matrix fans. We just don't like people joining specifically to talk crap on the movies. You'll find a wide variety of opinions, from people who like MXO and see it is a valid contribution (though I don't see why it would matter, I loved MXO in the beginning but I dislike what it became), to people who dismiss it or never bothered to look into it.

Plus, if enough people came over, we'd open up a section just for The Matrix Online (with the DN1 forums, there was never a need to do so in the past).

I see no reason why there should be seperate websites for Matrix fans versus people who played the Matrix Online. The people who play MXO that want to continue talking about the Matrix should be general Matrix fans in the first place... having a rift doesn't help our cause.

Plus, we had John Gaeta post

http://forums.thelastfreecity.com/v...?p=48765#p48765

http://forums.thelastfreecity.com/v...?p=49106#p49106

(excuse the broken HTML code from the old forum system)

Semi-apology, I posted that before I read your entire post, haha. Interesting ideas, but no it's not always 1999. It's always the peak of our civilization as it was at the turn of the century, but the years change.

Sorry, you lose.

It's another misunderstanding from Rarebit.

Hey guys I got a leaked copy of the end event for MXO!!!!!

There's going to be stages set up around the city and these lights in a park that we can switch on and off, but they don't really do anything, and then the game will just end with a picture of Paul Chadwick making out with Rarebit.

Wow, you really thought you needed a whole thread split up into chapters for yourself?

Haha... ok man...

Othinn1 wrote:

Foxxdie wrote:

It all got way too convoluted with little answers and little making sense.

 

   Examples?

I refer you to everything after the cinematics stopped. Take care.

Ok I really should wait to post this until I get the site redesign finished buuuut...

TLFC - The Last Free City

thelastfreecity.com

This forum has been around since the movies were released. It was originally, and fittingly thematrixonline.com, but Warner Bros. purchased the domain from the original owner. We've got 10 years of in-depth Matrix analysis, good discussion, original stories, and a good community.

A few years ago I took over as an admin and as lead web developer. I'm a professional user experience designer and web developer, and I'm working on an all-encompassing redesign of the forum, adding new features such as a blog/news front page.

The site has been there for 10 years and isn't going anywhere. All these faction websites and forums set up for the Matrix Online specifically may not last very long, who knows what the owner will do or when they will run out of funding. With TLFC, we've been here way before The Matrix Online and we'll be there way after The Matrix Online, guaranteed. It's run by Matrix fans, for Matrix fans.

I'd honestly love it if you guys would come over and make TLFC your home, like it's been my one true internet home since seriously 2003. I want to keep seeing your great Matrix stories, pictures, comics, and just general discussions.

P.S. We have a very loose TOS and only ban people for deliberately trying to disrupt the forum badly. Other than that, and disgusting stuff, most things are all good.

P.P.S. I also own www.zionarchive.com and I would like help setting this up as an archive of the complete Matrix story, including the Matrix Online.

You guys, the story was loosely defined to begin with. Chadwick made up a bunch of stuff that never went anywhere because it was either never intended to or they didn't get around to it. Then Rarebit made things worse by making up his own stuff. It all got way too convoluted with little answers and little making sense.

I honestly would say to completely disregard anything after the first 2 years, especially anything that came after the cinematics stopped being rendered with the in-game engine. The months the game was with Monolith is the only time things were going completely as planned with the story.

But to be truthful, in the future for any new movies, games, or comics, the entirety of The Matrix Online's story will likely be completely disregarded and ignored. Make your own peace with what happened, but there's no way to figure much of any "canonical" events with this story, besides the very beginning with Morpheus and the search for Neo and the truce and all of us as new redpills.

QuiDormit wrote:

Can we please just let this game die with whatever dignity it still has?

Digging into my own quotes from beginning of this year... and last year... haha

I now officially deem this the old school asskickers thread.

This is my signature as soon as the forum software pulls its <head> out of its ascii.

JEasy wrote:

Phrack wrote:

Pack it up... and know that people like Foxdie, Mave and NightTrace are always around to spit that stinging venom they call "I told you so" right in our faces.

<3

They should have paid a sub when the going got tough like the rest of us. The only mmo based on the Matrix universe, and the legends of the game bailed on it.  Money talks in this day.

Really, are you flippin' daft? I did sub when the going got tough. I subbed for several years of this game declining. Eventually enough is enough. I've got better things to spend my money on than a broken, mistreated game. I love The Matrix universe and always will, and I loved the first 6 months of this game when we had most of what we were promised when we bought it. Why pretend to love a shadow of something I used to like? If that's not some Matrix-style philosophy - that people would "defend the system" in the face of imminent demise - I don't know what is.

We're only back to see it die and say goodbye. Even if they decided to keep the game going I wouldn't stick around and I doubt many others would. Let's stop this and just say goodbye to a sick old friend.

From NightTrace:

“You loved every second of putting up with me and you know it”

Styling by me. It sounded like a love story.

ATTENTION STANTEN

NightTrace says to get on Xfire long enough to give him an alternate contact.

Hopefully they will still let people sub, but I went ahead and resubbed today to be sure.

I want to know who made the character LiquidFoxxdie and messaged me hahahaha, it was so funny.

If a mod lets me know I can post it without them banning me. I'd PM it to you but I can't PM or change my signature for some reason.

StormDM wrote:

To all the players, contact@lith.com tell em to take it back from this heartless company! July 31st im canceling my station account and calling a lawyer for all the money I spent on your TCG! Im going to take this company down the tubes for what they did to MXO! 

That's stupid man, you can't do anything. It's their property, they can do what they want. You were paying for each month of service, and that's what you got each month so you can't sue for a refund. The best you could have done was stop subscribing, which you should have done.

Let me borrow the Assassin Mask and I'll let you have the LESIG magic item! MYSTERY.

Wolfess wrote:

Foxxdie!! Hey you! Long time no see! You were great to work with as a liaison (and to hide behind, you were a much better public speaker!)

Hehe what up yo! Yeah I'm back to watch the Matrix fall.

Gerik wrote:

Oh, I see the list was removed.

THANK YOU MXOMOD006!

Did I mention that I really dislike the player moderators here? LOL. That wasn't a spoiler list, that was a list of people considered for LESIG 2.0. Only a few of them were picked from it.

I recently resubbed and I can't change my signature or send a PM to Virrago or Raijinn for help. I also see no Support section, so I'm posting here. Help!!!111!!one!1theone!11

And strangely, now my signature isn't showing up.

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Ok now I can't change my forum signature. It's still in "My Profile" with the avatar right?

All good now.

Recursion:
Foxxdie
Med3a
Chessmistress

Syntax:
Novalux
Dimas

Vector:
Gestas
TheOracle (I'd switch it over to servers to use as a messenger for player run events)

Okey, I was LESIG original.

Director's commentary:
Interestingly, LESIG was not originally intended to be the event helpers they turned out to be. Our first task was to go around the city and take neat screenshots of the world to be used in some sort of special part of the website. I think some of these pictures were used eventually.

My liaison was one of the first E Pluribus Neo liaisons and we helped to shape how the organization was perceived, with surprisingly little direction from Rarebit. I was Novalux on Syntax. I honestly worked hard to try and improve the gaming experiences for the players there since the game was crap and I remember fondly playing with the old LET team and especially the Novalis II. Unforunately, work + school + losing interest in a dying game made it so I had less and less time to jack in at all, let alone with my liaison. But I made sure to help craft and plan events behind the scenes.

Director's commentary:
One I remember very fondly is an event I completely created myself. It was the event with The Scanner:

This was an exile who used to be a program which attempted to scan bluepills for anomalies in an effort to discover when rebels were in the process of extracting a redpill. Since the truce, he became obsolete. The Cypherites thought this would be a useful program to have on their side and so their goal was to escort him to a secure location after meeting with him. EPN's goal was to assassinate the program before reaching the location. I tried to plan it to have good balance so that the players would have a good chance of influencing the outcome. Unfortunately as was often the case, Rarebit screwed things up and forgot to give The Scanner epic admin amounts of life and he was killed off fairly easily. The Cypherites still put up a great fight though.

I also designed the event were on Syntax EPN players were around different parts of the city and Shimada would detect a signal and report the "ping" time for it (i.e. the amount of time it takes for the signal to reach a location). We went to 3 points and told the players to triangulate the position. After some prompting, a few of them found the right location near the statue at Mara central and we all went there to get a glimpse of "Morpheus" speaking.

I had a few minor characters and helpers which I don't completely remember.

I was super mad that Rarebit wouldn't let LESIG liaisons level up fast somehow so that we could put on a wider range of events. There ARE instant one-level items in game, it wouldn't be hard to pass out 50 of those to the liaisons. Imagine what we could have done with that. Instead of the lame spawns of NPCs, you guys could have been fighting level 50 story characters that actually talked to you and acted like real people, and were actually a challenge. Before I resigned I actually offered to use my main character with a name change to be a liaison for the Machines on Recursion, since they didn't have an active one at the time. He said we can't be on the server with our main character. Which I thought was a dumb argument since if I renamed my main character and used it as a liaison, it wouldn't be my main character... Oh well. The lack of assistance and only using liaisons as overglorified messengers ("Hey guys there's a meeting with The Kid tomorrow!") combined with increased lack of time and increased disgust for the situation the game was in lead me to resign from LESIG a little over a year and a half after we had started the liaisons, Early 2006 to Mid 2007.

Director's commentary:
In the beginnings of LESIG after we had liaisons for awhile, forum moderators (other players) were still allowed inside the LESIG forum. This resulted in several leaks. One horrible moderator, Sneaker, started a mini-flamewar in the LESIG forum because he thought some liaisons were RPing "too hard" against his faction, The Collective. After I put him in his place, he tried to "moderate" me and after the discovery of more leaks, moderators were no longer allowed to view the LESIG forum.

After I returned to the game from a year hiatus, I started to use my old liaison character as a "freelance" agent, making it clear that I wasn't an official part of EPN anymore, but I wanted to put on some small but entertaining events. Unfortunately, that's about when Rarebit announced his departure. I asked him if before he left I could have my Novalux forum account back to put on some events after he leaves, but he said no and then he changed the name of the Novalux character to something else just to spite me one last time. FFFFFFUUUUUUUUU

So then I quit the game again. I'm only back to see it die and say goodbye to an old friend that was poorly mistreated.

I hope that even with the resources we had, the LESIG players managed to make the game at least a little more fun and engaging for the other players.

-Novalux-
E Pluribus Neo

So yeah that.

But more importantly, why can I post here, but I don't see Reply or New Post buttons in General Discussion?

Roukan wrote:

...and my phone number is (702) 541-4241.

Bad idea?

Anyway stay frosty Roukan, my time is up in 5 days and I'm not looking back until the servers shut down.

Yeah we don't have to worry about missing events any more. Thanks for solving that problem SOE!

Nintene wrote:

We all have to choose our paths or they will choose us.

Regardless of the outcome there is a light ahead for us all, if one chooses to see it.

What matters is the fight.

The battle.

The choice.

Being able to choose.

But thank you for sharing...I do appreciate you trying to help me save money on buying a lot of jelly beans...but I'm still going to do it. =)

Ughhhhh, this kind of faux-righteousness gives me a headache.

This isn't your life. This is a boring video game that's lost everything good about it. We can't do anything about it. Only money talks. 90% of all the people who would ever play this game have either played it and quit (never coming back until the servers are shut down), are currently still subscribed (obviously not many people at all), or have heard so much bad about it that they won't bother.

This is all I ask: Be conscience of what you are doing. Someone explain exactly what enticing features of this game would persuade people to try it at this point. Name one thing that would make someone turn away from WoW or EvE to play this game. I challenge anyone to name 10 features that would perform this miracle. You can't do it if you are honest in your assessment. No amount of marketing, jellybeans, or petitions will change this fact. Let me read off the features that were marketed to new players on the game box when MxO was released:

Continue the saga
Participate in the continuing story of the Matrix and become a part of Matrix history as you play through and experience events directed by the Wachowski Brothers.

Explore every inch of the Matrix: Mega City
Experience the most realistic urban environment of any MMO. The entire city, including every room of every building, is in play.

Master the innovative combat system
Defeat your enemies using devastating martial arts manuevers and gunplay. Breakthrough MMO technology produces rich animations and hyper-kinetic battle sequences.

Retain character flexibility
Escape character regret. Reconfigure your character's abilities and performance on demand.

Always stay connected
Communicate with people in and out of the game in real-time using AOL Instant Messenger technology.

Of those five, two have been REMOVED from the game, and the first two have blatant lies in them. The Bros. never had anything to do with the story or events other than an initial approval of Chadwick's ideas. And we all know that every room of every building is not "in play" even though there are only about 20 unique building structures. Even if they were, who cares, there's nothing to be found there. The only features that could actually be interesting to new players are the combat and ability systems. But without anything to do, they are useless besides PVPing the same 5 people at Mara. And even these systems are still broken. The perfect symbol for this game is to look at the Operative > Soldier ability tree slot for "Multi-fighting." After several years it still says "Ability Description: TBD (To be determined)."

Before you waste your money and time, really try to address why a person would want to pay $15/month and use their time to play a game with barely any current players, no further feature development, no further story development, utter neglect and incompetance by the owners, and where of the 6 letters of MMORPG the only one that consistently applies is Online.

Don't just do something to do something. Phrack, you know I love you man, but you were feeling the same way as me just a week ago. I think you feel like you have to do something because it's expected of you, or because the players have turned towards you. But I think your talents and money can be put to better use.

GQubed wrote:

Aww I got all excited for a moment!

Well you can join my Revenant crew in game if you want, haha.

Foxxdie wrote:

GoDGiVeR wrote:

Global Agenda, it's like Dystopia, only larger and MMO-typish.

I am so in. Waiting to get into beta. If it turns out half as good as I hope, I'll making the RP/FPS full time switch and bringing the spirit of "The Revenant" along with any cool MxO player that wishes to join up. I love you guys.

Speaking of which, I have a referral code that I can give to people who want to register for the beta on the Global Agenda site. I think if we get a bunch of people to use the same referral code, it increases our chances of getting into the beta together. Also, we should start talking about possibly starting an MXO player based faction for Global Agenda, as there's a spot to specify the name and a website on your profile.

GoDGiVeR wrote:

Global Agenda, it's like Dystopia, only larger and MMO-typish.

I am so in. Waiting to get into beta. If it turns out half as good as I hope, I'll making the RP/FPS full time switch and bringing the spirit of "The Revenant" along with any cool MxO player that wishes to join up. I love you guys.

Nintene wrote:

I understand people being negative and people just wanting to troll about this idea. That is fine, you have freedom to express yourself. It's just to some of us MXO is more than just a silly game or franchise. It is more than Live Events, PVP or RP...it's a community, a group of friends and a family. I don't want to see that community die through apathy.

Completely seriously, 95% of the players that made "the community" for me have been gone from this game for a long time. There is no community anymore. There's some people that know each other of course, but without some purpose tying us together (in alliance or as enemies) and something to actually do, there is no community. Trust me man, I felt the same as you... two years ago. It's over. This isn't some symbolic statement, I'm not the Agent Smith to your Neo. This is just a poorly built, poorly marketed, poorly maintained, neglected game based on a franchise I really care about. Plenty of us ignored the signs for a long time, or just put them off to the side and enjoyed what we had. But these latest signs can't be ignored. The last (read: only) full-time developer on the game is gone. The "Producer" of the game has let a month slip by without even popping in to say "hey guys, here's the situation." We've barely even got a "hold on, explanation coming soon." I log on at several different times during the day, different days and it's always population low on all servers except Syntax. As early as this past summer most of the servers would average at population medium in the server browser. This game and the way it's been treated is an embarassment to Matrix fans, and an insult to us who have been here since beta. It needs to end.

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

Foxxdie wrote:

 whatever dignity it may have left.

Absolutely none! That's why "nothing to lose" is such an awesome phrase.

Edit: Oh, and boycotting? HA! Like 40 people (scuse, 39, like hell I'm gonna give up the Agency for you guys) not playing a game is gonna stop the other couple hundred thousand that will be interested at first, then dwindle away slowly like every other MMO out there so that Blizzard staff can stroke their e-peens.

Maybe you misunderstand me. I'm not talking about a boycott. That's silly and won't work. I'm just saying that you all should not waste your money. The economy is collapsing, the dollar is being destroyed, the world is in all likelyhood coming to an end. $15 x 12 months = $180 and that's enough for you to get a really nice hotel room and make sweet love to a fine woman.

But if you guys want to pay for a Matrix chatroom I can set one up and I'd only charge you $5 a month. That's a deal at twice the price.

Ahhh much ado about N07H1N9 Good times. Stay frosty Sykin.

A year ago I would have said hell yes. A few months ago I could be convinced. Even 3 weeks ago I would be pumped up to do this. Right now, I think you're all delusional and should spend your money more wisely, especially with the economy crashing down around us.

Hell, it would be a better investment if we all pooled some money together and bought lottery tickets in a state with a large reward but small population and then bought MxO from SOE/WB if one of us won.

No amount of red jelly beans will turn this mess around now guys. You've gotta face the truth and either save your money and leave, or enjoy the game while you can. My last day, until the servers shut down for good and I say my goodbyes to the Matrix, is March 15th. If there's some miracle that rejuvenates the game, I'll give it a shot, but I'm not holding my breath and I'm not wasting my money. But I wish more of you would unsubscribe and let our baby die with whatever dignity it may have left.

Virrago wrote:

Foxxdie wrote:

Or we can flame and spam and complain all over the forums until our last $15 payment is up.

I wouldn't recommend that.

 

I DO!

It's fun stuff.