Yeah, no. I watched two trailers of "Fallen Earth" and it didn't catch me. Plus I didn't like the graphics at all.

Zeac wrote:

"in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body."

other parts?

THAT part.

Hey, Walrus and Virrago - you guys truly are amazing these days with all the attention you're giving to us. TY again.

I kinda have the feeling that xp is not as high as it was before the restart too, but I don't have any solid figures to back that feeling up.

Even though I didn't have any subscription issue, I want to say "thank you" as well. Your communication was a nice suprise to me. I was especiallly impressed by Raijinn and his tireless answering of each particular question, even though it made him sound like a "broken record".

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

Which means we can get this tread back to the Current News. We're still No. 1!

Up'd it too.

UPD: Hey, what if we also down'd all the other news - you know, to make the ours one get higher?  Well, just asking...

Ogham wrote:

So it may be a bit harder . What I do know is:

- If the server gets disconnected and the client doesn't realize this you get to walk around in the environment, but you can't interact with anything

Most of the development time of a game is spent in the game mechanics and graphics... both of which already exists for MXO, so it's just a conversion project from client-server to "client-client". Rip out the network stuff from the server, make into a single player thing.

Let's do the math... Suppose SOE doesn't want to outsource it and do it inhouse.... let 1 of the last MXO developers work on a conversion for a year full-time (making some small extra stuff: more rapid leveling, more info, clothes shop, ...)... don't advertise the game, just make a pre-order button on amazon and send all old-subscribers an e-mail when the game is ready (no Steam, no copy protection, send the DVD in a plain white box). Suppose 10.000 people would buy the game as lower limit, I would expect all people in the game the last 2 months to buy a copy. Treat it as a high end-game... 40euro a piece... 400K euro income as lower limit.

That's a no-brainer... pretty easy ROI... and instead of 10.000 customers use the number of active people in the last 2 months of MXO. Ongoing franchise without a lot of cost, more positive people on SOE...

Well, I would definitely buy such a thing - even just for the sake of having it. 

Villemar_MxO wrote:

deimoslvov wrote:

Bayamos wrote:

DoFrag by mdsy works, I haven't tried this page but it looks like it is it:

http://www.planet-source-code.com/v...59&lngWId=1

 

Use the header RIFF to split the wav files.

Well I downloaded the code from that site, but I can't figure out how to use it. It has no .exe files or anything, and I'm not familiar with any advanced technologies...

I used Dragon UnPACKer to pull out the audio files from those .pkb's.  Its pretty easy and intuitive.  Install, go to File -> HyperRipper, and select the pkb's you want to pull audio from.  It will list the ones it finds, then all you gotta do is save the .wav files to wherever you want them.  Some neat bits of unused dialog.

That worked. Thank you.

Ra2za wrote:

deimoslvov wrote:

Ra2za wrote:

I am no expert just saw that walrus mentioned he had looked into it.

Link or it didn't happen.

 

Yes, as the producer, it does ultimately land on me when things go wrong for MxO. I won't argue that fact or point fingers in other directions. If I inject a bit of humor at this point, it's because I'm disappointed as well--both in the ending of MxO and in not finding ways to change the direction of the game.

Is there more I could have done? I'm sure there was. Hindsight can bring things into unfortunate and painful clarity at times. So I try to remember all the good things about this game and it's community and hope to learn from past mistakes so I can do better in the future. Too late for MxO, sadly. But not too late for any future projects I'm responsible for.

I wish we could keep at least one server open. The option was looked into, but it wasn't feasible. So we have to retire the game and that makes me immensely sad. I understand the anger completely.

Now we just need Keith01 to log on and say "I blame Walrus" to complete the circle. - walrus

 

 

Man you're fast. I just found it one minute ago myself and was going to make my previous message null.

Ra2za wrote:

I am no expert just saw that walrus mentioned he had looked into it.

Link or it didn't happen.

Bayamos wrote:

DoFrag by mdsy works, I haven't tried this page but it looks like it is it:

http://www.planet-source-code.com/v...59&lngWId=1

 

Use the header RIFF to split the wav files.

Well I downloaded the code from that site, but I can't figure out how to use it. It has no .exe files or anything, and I'm not familiar with any advanced technologies...

Speaking of LESIG - it'd be nice to finally see the assembled map from the "Eyes Open"/CoffinsNail event. And to know< where it was supposed to lead.

Ingame handles: Vector.IntegratedOne, Recursion.Dijeru, Syntax.Piaf.

E-mail: mdaniel2001@mail.ru

MSN: same e-mail address.

ICQ: 174786305

I remember Virrago saying not so long ago (but still before Rare's departure) "That is not going to happen" when answering a concern about shutting down MxO. So I completely second Sepet's question.

OooRoyooO wrote:

i think it should rain assassin masks, there should be a way too get every item ingame possible bye finding a present on the ground like xmas use to be, or a ONE FOR ALL Vendor

Sounds like a good idea.

Wouldn't the easiest way be to get an NPC trading XP disks for 1 $nfo?

We used to get an announcement every week, with or without an update. So it's not that I don't know Thursday is a server restart day, it's just that I happen to notice that change.

So it's Thursday, server restart day ok. But why don't we even get a message about it in "News and Announcements"? Is even a small announcement too much effort from our administration? Honestly, that suprises me.

Dulux wrote:

Was doing a little research here and discovered nobody ever finished the Machine 12.1.3 mish so thought i'd stick it in.

Wow, I can't believe you actually did that! A bit late perhaps, but that probably makes the contribution even more valuable. Thank you!

So I noticed that the Neighborhood Contact's missions have little-side quests sometimes. I.e. in one of Operetta's missions there is a bluepill that asks you to plant a bug in the desk of another character. Those side-quests are never mentioned in the mission objectives, and they don't seem to be really relevant either. If you complete them, it doesn't increase the XP or grant you a particular reward. So is there any reason for them to exist or are they there just for the sake of fun?

A great fight tonight, with a lot of suspense and a successuful outcome for EPN in the end. In a few moments it felt like we were being totally zerged.

machete wrote:

Oh and what of this rumor I heard that we WERE supposed to get a dev sometime in the near future?  No facts to support this up till now..  A lot of questions, but no answers...

Oh, hey, wait, I have one more question to be answered: what rumor? Are you just being ironic or was there really such a rumor?

Villemar_MxO wrote:

Tranque101 wrote:

First and foremost, I am a devoted MXO Player, its simply the fact that I cannot afford to pay 15 dollars a month for lack of content. I am not rich, if they lowered it to five dollars, that would be fine, but they show no intent on doing so.

This.

 

With all the huge sympathy I have both for Tranque and Villemar, I don't buy the "I'm not rich, I can't afford" part.

Let's see. I live and earn money in Ukraine, which is very far from being the richest country in the world and which is officially the hardest hit by the current economic crisis in Europe. And still, with a relatively small revenue - compared to the US and EU, where even a frankly mediocre job makes people earn twice as much as I do - I can afford paying 15 bucks per month. So no, I won't believe people out there in US or EU can't afford paying 50 cents a day for a game they want to play.

In my eyes, it's not a question of possibility/affordability, but a question of willingness. It's quite understandable you may not want to pay this price for a game with no new content. But please, do not say you can't/ because that doesn't sound too honest. 

Definitely a new dev providing new content and storytelling, by far.

QuiDormit wrote:

Yeah.  I imagine SOE meetings go something like a meeting I had at a couple of years ago at my last job.  I'll never forget it, because it was incomprehensible to me.

(lightly paraphrased to protect the poor useless product and the moron upper management with shady business practices)
Boss:  "So we need to talk about [product] support."
Me:  "Wait, you mean people still pay for [product]?"
Boss:  "Well, yeah.  I mean, it's one-of-a-kind.  It's the only product that does what it does, so there's a niche market."
Me:  "But it's antiquated technology!  No one even uses pagers any more, do they?"
Boss:  "We want to get rid of it, but it brings in money, and it's still profitable as long as we don't spend any time on it.  We need to essentially stop supporting it in the hopes that people will stop using it.  However, we don't want to actively drop it since people are still willing to pay for it.  Some people are paying for it and aren't even using the product any more, and it could be a problem for us if they realize that they still pay us every month for something they're not using."
Me:  "Well, I'm supposed to be the top tier support for it, and I didn't even know it was still in use, so I'd say we have that one nailed down.  Still, that seems... off."
Boss:  "Yeah, you're right.  Still, don't spend any man hours working on it if anything comes up.  If the server happens to die, we'll at least be done with it."

I'd say that accurately describes our current situation, mm?

Accurately enough to make me think you made up the dialogue just for MxO.

ronin wrote:

They need to do something vector is dead you have events going on .. on syn and they wont do it on vector cos there is not enuf ppl .. how can they deam that fair if not merge all the servers at least give ppl the choice to change

First - there is a relatively active topic on that in "Developement roundtable" section, no need to do a necro stuff like that. Second - it's been brought up a number of times already.

What a cruel joke was this...

But hey, it boosted my hope that MxO will be revived!

Oops, I really didn't mean to miss this one, but I have a lot of work IRL at the moment. It's a shame there was no EPN/Zion participation at all this time. Guess the Courier felt lonely...

1. It's in coma.

2. No. Someone call Dr. House!

Renesis13B wrote:

Walrus basically said he had no new information.  When he gets some firm details im sure he will share them.

Honestly, if Walrus gets some new information for us and obtains something that will give MxO a decent future (byt this I mean a leading dev, of course), I'm ready to wait for a producer's letter with an announcement of it all for one more month. Hey, I could wait two months even!   

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).

deimoslvov wrote:

Well, well, well... The event is promised to start very soon, and we still have no "servers will go down for an update" notice...

Oh, so it took place but just wasn't announced.

Well, well, well... The event is promised to start very soon, and we still have no "servers will go down for an update" notice...

Politics/society journalist/analyst in Ukraine.

WoKeN wrote:

side note..did they ever restart it to fix datamine? 

That was my first thought when I saw the title. But for what I know, they didn't.

Aquilae wrote:

A Producer's Letter would be the best gift of all.

Synapse777 wrote:

A continued comic storyline just like the one Dark Horse got their hands on with Star Wars when everyone thought Star Wars comics was over and done. Now that's what I'd like to see... a big company publishing this kind of mature philosophical story

This, led either by Moore or someone else.

I couldn't locate luggables either, and the old moving bug is back as well.

Hyperviolent wrote:

Well okay, it seems the main purpose of something like this is to get noticed. Nothing wrong with that.

There doesn't even have to be any ideas behind it, its just a cry for help, in the light of our powerlessness.

Will sign whatever forms, big deal.. Shouldn't just be a US thing, euro WB office contact info would be nice.

Concentration is good. Deconcentration isn't. 1000 letters to the central office is better than 200 to 5 different affiliated offices.