GodTier wrote:

OH MY GOD THE DRAMA IN THIS THREAD IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

It wouldn't be the MxO forums without it!, may the drama continue whereever we decide to end up.

GamiSB wrote:

I would sudgest making it somewhere that is independent of any player made/run. We all think its a good idea now but two years down the road what happens when the admin decides he doesnt want to pay for it/update it/ keep it spam free etc.

We have pages on Facebook and Myspace. I say use those as a hub if anything.

We could use proboards with several people stated  as admins.

Bruinz wrote:

azarazamataz wrote:

Yay bruinz made it back! I shall be going to SWTOR!

Likewise. Hopefully they wont divide the servers  EU/US so we can play together. For all of thoes going off to TOR, it's not taking off for several months though. How are you all going to keep in touch and know what server to get into for the MxO guild when it does? o.O

 

 

Edit: You guys have X-Fire?   Add meh! and put yours down as well.

 

Mine: twicethepride

MxOSpace, various other fansites? Thread on the forums, MxO PLayers here!

Fen wrote:

Email of Doom wrote:

We welcome those active MxO subscribers in good standing to play one or all of the following SOE massively-multiplayer online PC games at full paid subscriber status at no cost between June 1, 2009 and July 31, 2009 (subject to the terms and conditions described below) using the same Station Account you use to subscribe to MxO**:  Free Realms™, EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, and Star Wars Galaxies™.  To access and download the game software for EverQuest, EverQuest II, or Star Wars Galaxies, begin by downloading Station Launcher here for free: http://launcher.station.sony.com/.  To initiate the download of Station Launcher simply click on the "DOWNLOAD BETA" button. Once the download is complete, Station Launcher will serve as your one stop shop for access to all the identified online games except Free Realms, which can be found at www.freerealms.com.

That's so awesome!  After watching MxO players get treated like crap for 3 1/2 years by SOE, I can now go and get treated like crap in all their other,  games that are not fit to lick the boots of MxO FOR FREE!!! 

corrected

How SWG is more popular than MxO and is running, I played it a bit last night and this morning and well...MxO is just a hundred times the game that it is, even with all it's problem. I never really played another MMO apart from trial of WoW which i got bored and LOTRO which I also found boring. The begining is so linear in SWG, compared to MxO's, you know I wanna log in and meet me I know play it. Instanced missions and being able to call a mission from anywhere, all 10 times better. Graphics and UI are better, so what is it that has stoped this game reaching its potential, its just such a better game, I won't go on about invesment in the game but it's still an amazing game and better than the standard MMO product.

10011 wrote:

The way I remember it, Sarah Edmontons was a storyline invented by Paul Chadwick that was never revisited, aside from one ambitious LESIG members attempt to revive it that actually got through Rarebit's screening process. That was the event where some friend of Sarah Edmontons was interrogated by some such org.

It was EPN, I was part of the team on Syntax,  I think she mentioned she had a brother? and generally if I remember rightly she was just wanted to find her sister.

There was alot of debate if it was LESIG or a player

and maybe we should just acept , it was neo

Teh Maitrix's r broke! Teh machines(SOE) took out the graphics, machines (SOE) needed them for kung fu hustle

I knew you guys woudln't let us down, maybe SOE should in future do stuff like this when you guys are on to calm us down.

Thanks alot for getting even those after june 1st to, without you guys I am sure it wouldn't have happened.

Walrus wrote:

Hi folks,

    I understand the confusion for those folks who have resubbed since the email notice went out. We are in discussions about how we're going to deal with the issue and will have an answer for you as soon as possible. Unfortunately, those discussions are taking a bit longer than usual due to key folks being in transit from E3.

    The answer may not come today, but we are looking into it. Raijiin and Virrago will have an answer as soon as I can get them one.

    -Walrus

One last good thing please!, I even apologise to the support people for all the nasty things I said and kept pestering them about. I still havent got to 50 and would love to do that!

Thanks alot for taking time out of agency to sort this mess out, it was really getting out of hand and would be sad one to have rememebered MxO.!

Villemar_MxO wrote:

RetroX wrote:

Archaeus wrote:

TSR Eryk N.: What happened was, you were not supposed to of been able to subscribe but somehow it let you do so. You will be getting a refund for that and should have access to the game by tomorrow as well.

 

Sweet.

well his become more helpful, all he told me was that I was getting a refund and thats that

Hopefully our beloved TSR Eryk attempt to shut you guys out will be overruled by Raijin, Walrus, etc. 

Mine might not, I am june the first person but Raijin and Virrago seem to heading in more positive direction with this to

Archaeus wrote:

TSR Eryk N.: What happened was, you were not supposed to of been able to subscribe but somehow it let you do so. You will be getting a refund for that and should have access to the game by tomorrow as well.

 

Sweet.

well his become more helpful, all he told me was that I was getting a refund and thats that

Raijinn wrote:

Actually this isn't the whole truth to the story and rather misleading. Customer service is still supporting The Matrix Online, as is the Community team, and development.

In regards to the concerns over refunds, as it was mentioned in the FAQ:

"As of June 1, 2009 any currently entitled active player with an account in billing will not be billed again. For players who have previously purchased prepaid subscription time via a multi-month subscription service, SOE game time card or other retail game time card that extends the service period past June 1, 2009, SOE will refund these accounts for the unused time and where indicated will mail refund checks to the current billing address on the account. Please be sure to update your email and physical address in your Station Account as this will be critical to the refund process."

What if we sub'd on june 1st and was playing on tuesday? Pleaseeeee can you do something, if you do I promise to sub to SWG

Toluca wrote:

My account is also in that situation, so it seems I won't be able to be with you all guys for the final demise.

I really undestand being able to resub on June 1st was a tecnical mistake, and we shouldn't have been able to do that. It was my fault to be late to the dead line. But, once we were resuscribed, it'd be best just let us be and say goodbye to the game we love and worked so hard for. Because this shouldn't be just bisnes, there's also a lot of sentiments for a lot of the community.

Virrago, Raijin, walrus, if you have voice with the guys making this decisions, please make them to rething it.

From what they been saying there is lot of hope here, and no its not our faults for missing the deadline when they give us 4 Days to do it in.

I cant believe they got such a stupid system as to lock us all compleatly out.

I am still not fixed

From what I heard from support as long as your before June the 1st its fine on or after your doomed.

NO! You cannot give up yet, there is still much spunk left in this horse!

Nintene wrote:

Ic3b3rg wrote:

Fen wrote:

Endomorph wrote:

Seriously what gives? People who subbed on June 1st are now getting kicked out of game and having their accounts shut down? I mean seriously wth...

Listen... We got less than a weeks notice that you were shutting the game down and stopping billing. We are the paying customers who made this game what it is and after putting in so much time, dedication, and love into this game your simply pulling the plug and taking all our hard work and throwing it into the garbage can. We've got a little less than 2 months left on this game and we'd like to make the most of it and get as much enjoyment out of it as possible... I don't know if you guys have forgotten this fact due to how small the player base is around here, but this is a MMO... And its the multiplayer part that keeps people come back. We've got 2 months left and in order to make the most of it we need our friends and faction mates to be here. As a faction leader myself, I've got tons of friends/faction members who are currently unsubbed and cant get resubbed to get back here and enjoy the last 2 months. And this is a fact that rings true for a lot of players and factions where they've got a lot of unsubbed players who want to come back but cant.

You've got players going back to the CR1 days who put in a lot of time into this game in its early on who want to be here for the end. Some of us have put in well in excess of 3000 hours in to our characters... That's a massive amount of time to spend on something to not be able to be there for the end and have some closure. I mean really stop and think about all the old players out there who you know who want to be here right now but cant.

 

So Virrago, please go bash some heads up in the SOE offices and get them to enable all the old accounts. Let anyone who's not banned come back and play for the end. Heck, unban all the accounts and let them come back as well. As much as we hated some of the players in this game its also the villans who made the game what it was as well. The point is though, let the players come back who want to come back. In the last 2 months if we could get everyone back on here we could make the last 2 months something amazing and give this game one he ll of a send off. And from the logical point of view... SOE has no reason not to.... From June 1st forward all of us are playing for free anyway... So really what difference does it make? Free is free. Try to get them to let our friends and faction mates come back.

So I implore you to please fight for this all to often forgotten community and let us get the most out of the time we have remaining. Because if we cant get our friends and faction mates back here its simply another slap in the face.

 

Posting on behalf of Anxiety762.

SOE:  "You and your friends can play together in Free Realms."

Ever felt like we were the red headed step child of the red headed step child?

More like the inbred offspring of the two. =/

Locked in a basement in Austria

Virrago wrote:

We are currently looking into this and as I will post as soon as we have an ETA.

 

I know its not your fault, but this is all we get after hours, not even an eta? just one will be coming?

Also the issue of the lies of SOE support tech, I hadnt seen the email so was pleading with them but now I am compleatly baffled.

I resubed as soon I heard the news on June the 1st, I could even play until they decided they had problems. I spent ages with support tyring to get through to somone who just did not listern. Just kept repeating the game is being closed.

Outlaw wrote:

RetroX wrote:

YAY, chat support is down for matainance, may have to wait another hour

Your best bet is probably going to call because they won't answer your emails either...

Yeah...unfortunately, SOE believes all their customers live in America

YAY, chat support is down for matainance, may have to wait another hour

Kind of makes me glad , I am not ingame

They are really really trying to keep us all as paying SOE customers

Apprently if you re-subed when you eventually got around to reading the anoucnement you dont get SOE station pass either, I had a rather inept conversation with support that basicvally said they could refund me and I woudlnt have any game time left I think he said after May 27th?

And thanks Walrus, i am sure we definatly the target market for Free Realms and not pirtates/planetside, do SOE actually want to keep us as customers?(Not that they will for most of us)

Virrago wrote:

Mona wrote:

Outlaw wrote:

Alright, I got a pm from Virrago saying to call customer support. Pick MxO and Account Billing. They told me that the free trial isn't automatically going into effect for some reason. Everyone with the problem has to call 1-858-537-0898 to get cleared up, they will submit a support ticket on your behalf and then they should fix your problem within the day

Well that isn't helpful as i live in the UK and it would cost me a fortune to make a call like that.

You can also use the Live Chat instead of calling. Click here and then click the Chat support tab.

 

Woo SWG here I come, pirates aswell. Maybe even everquest out of curiosity

Thanks Virrago

ChloeAnn wrote:

standing around and dancing

 

and the in-game radio stations

God yes, the in-game radio stations from RFZ to the latter incarnations of RMC to Catzi Radio. Just a thought there, Catzi's events on Syntax at least have been amazing, always full of fun and this social thing everyone is talking about here, it really was a great social expierence being in MxO.

MxO 2 ftw!

Maybe we are shuting down because someone has brought the license

I agree, in some ways it is better to cut MxO out then live an excistance unbecoming of it.

Bayamos wrote:

The regular game launcher only uses a bitlength checksum, whereas Station Launcher actually checks the file contents when you launch. So to play with the patch you need to start MXO from the regular launcher. Why can't you get ingame using launcher.exe?

Says it needs to write to matrix.exe but there is no matrix.exe

I got my CDs though, so maybe reinstall using that and using the laucher to patch will work.

Phrack wrote:

No dev to implement it.  

Le sigh.

Surely its just changing a figure, much like the XP/INFO boost?

but

/SIGN

Brilliant, I love the comedy factor. It was just pure class, I loved every bit of it. What an intresting way to continue the MxO story.

Archangel wrote:

God, people. Don't glorify neolivesftw. Don't any of you remember how he used to troll these forums and pis people off? All he ever did was talk about how crap this game was. It's not a joke. He's just a moron.

I got told off for feeding the troll

Bayamos wrote:

Sugaree, I'm working on an update to the patch right now, and plan to turn on snow for International or Downtown in it.

If you just want snow without the patch, Here's the TSEC list: http://bayamos.systematic-chaos.net/TSEC.txt

To turn on snow for say, Richland, goto /resource/final_world/slums_barrens_full.metr, open it in a hex editor. Near the beginning you'll see TSEC on the right hand side. A bit after that you'll see the hex

80 1D D1 00 38

which is the default Richland TSEC. Replace that with your choice of one of these (for different snowfall):

winter1: 80 0C 00 00 DC
winter2: 80 10 00 00 DC
winter3: 80 17 00 00 DC

and save the file, and you'll have snow.

 

LetsRock, I explained weather in The Guide, you should read that. Long story short, one replaces weather by either editing a TSEC value in a .metr file, or by telling the RezMap to load TSEC A instead of TSEC B.

I followed this, but everytime I updated the slums, i have to change persmisons (not that that is important as I set them back ) SOE laucher seems to think it needs to update and and writes over everything but I cant get into the game just by using laucher.exe.

Maybe Cryptic would be intrested altought they are already developing two major titles, I doubt they will have the investment nessary to keep to improve the game maybe they could keep it running and then make a 2.

To Teh invesment peoples! we need this game made!

How badly a company can treat customers and get away with it?

No, joking I am not going to turn a positive thread into another SOE bashing, we have enough of those.  MxO was  my first MMORPG before that  I mostly twitched alot playing racing and football(soccer) games. It has helped me through some dark times of secondary school and sixth form, leading me to go to university. I am going take away the fond memories of the friends, I made here the skills I have learn such as photoshop and even a little website design which has helped me imencely in my degree. I have learned so much I may of ignored.

I always considered myself to have poor writing skills before MxO(I still do really) but MxO has helped loads here, from roleplay to just general forum posts.

I will take away a great learning curve and something that I will fondly remember from my teenage years.

Phrack wrote:

Fen wrote:

The only way I see this happening is illegally.

An emulator for The Matrix Online will never exist.  And yes, Fen, I know you weren't really talking about one, per se, so don't think I'm arguing with you, just pointing out a fact to everyone.

1. Out of all of the emulator projects that I've witnessed/been part of, for The Matrix Online, nobody has been able to get past the whacked out encryption going on in the packets sent between the client and the server.  An inability to crack the encryption means that the process can't be reverse-engineered or duplicated.

2. SOE will also never release the files to the public, in any degree.  Mainly because even if they wanted to (it's not something they're known for doing, for one), it isn't their property to be releasing to the public.  It belongs to Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment.  SOE has just been the baby-sitter for the better part of the last four years.

Now, if you want to look for ways to keep MxO going, there is an incredibly faint, so-tiny-its-almost-insignificant glimmer of hope...  and that is to contact WBIE and talk to whoever's in charge over there about continuing production of The Matrix Online, under a new company's name.

If, by some snowball's chance in hell, they agree to negotiate it with you, you'll only have two real concerns...

 

• Covering operation costs; and...
• Paying Licensing/Royalty fees to Warner Bros.

If it were me, and WB said yes, I'd make the game free-to-play, like Freerealms is now.  I would create new in-game items that could be micropurchased, and I would sell advertising space (in-game billboards, anyone?) to cover costs.

But yeah...

Bottom line?

That's the closest anyone is ever going to come to keeping MxO alive.

 

Well why not? There is the myFC project where 50,000 fans were guided to club together to take over  a football club just below the football league in England.

Maybe it is something worth looking into, a full plan, gain the intrest of players, spread word to other gamers the chance to invest in their own game and turn it something they want to play.

If WIBE can make money from something that would otherwise be siting in storage, i am sure they would.

I am sure SOE have a few dev's who could come over and give it all to us?

But then why do that for the finale when they couldn't give us anything in the past? Just keep cutting back everything until we left with a shell of its former self.

We will have a few CS staff playing agents and be done with it.

Walrus, its ok, we just dispointed, we lost the thing we loved, they finally beat us all the way down. A lack of honesty in recent months is horrible way to go, I am sure I saw post saying we were still going be here, its just lie after lie with this game.

MarsNova wrote:

MetaLogic wrote:

Nintene wrote:

MetaLogic wrote:

MarsNova wrote:

I want to see people throwing red sticks for Logic Cannon 2.0

Hmm, *paints steel bars red*

Dear God, I'm going to need to get my medical license to be an effective Patcher in this game. o_O

You know, if we could all move to one city, we could call the city that we moved to "MegaCity" and we could use stuff like Airsoft guns.  I already found an airsoft shotgun. 

How would you use Proxy Coder?

We kidnapp the cloning scientists, we pause the game while the clones are grown

End of beta, but with more chaos, i am talking NPCs Vs. NPCs feel the world with spawns, hopefully to even outsides. Make something everyone stays for, maybe so many will log back in for it that SOE will consider reopening one server or making an MxO : Two done right