Bump for emphasis. 

Care to answer us SOE?  I dare you.

VorAbaddon wrote:

But the reality is... nothing was taken from you, becuase it was never yours to begin with. It's SOE's property, you paid for access to it. You rented space, essentially, you never have and never will own a thing, just like I rent space in EQ.

xFenshirex wrote:

SOE dragged the game on, constantly removing things we were paying for with little to no explanation, while constantly saying (even as recently as a month or so ago) that there was nothing wrong with the game and that they would never close it down.

 I want to state, since I know you're going to say "SOE isn't obligated to tell you anything", that as a consumer, I do have a right to know what's going on with the service I pay for.  If my cable provider suddenly dropped my 100+ channels to just 10 channels overnight, I'd want to know darn well why and how come I'm paying the same monthly rate.

Everytime they'd remove a developer, or a feature, and the community would ask "Why?", we either got silence or "We'll get back to you on that."

VorAbaddon wrote:

If it's such a "Slap in the face"... then why did you continue playing? SOE, nor any other game company, are obligated to maintain these games. Nowhere is it guarenteed that you'll get support. I'm not going to say you don't have a right to your opinion about SOE, but nor do you have a right to anything you expect. It's a service, if you're not happy with it, discontinue it. But don't act as if you have some Constitutional privelege to an expansion to an internet game.

You just don't get it.  Those of us who play MxO feel strongly enough about it to override concerns to the contrary. 

To put it simply, we love the game.  Like a sibling or a limb, we love it - even when we hate it. 

It's not about recieving support or expansions, most of us are realistic about that.  It's about how SOE has consistently taken things from us again and again and now they're taking the last thing we have left. 

Put yourself in our shoes.  Imagine your favourite game being whittled to a stump over a period of years.  Feel what it's like to try and keep people's spirits up when each thing is taken away.  Picture logging in every day to find another person on your friend list has left and the feeling of hope each time one comes back.  Feel the pride of weathering all of this and still being able to proclaim 'We are still here'. 

Very shortly, hope will die and SOE will wash its hands of the blood.

I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me.

SOE has failed as a company and as a service provider.

The employees of SOE have failed as professionals and as people.

Matt_NZ wrote:

SiriusStormbringer wrote:

Matt_NZ wrote:

Go ask players of Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault, Fury, etc how they felt when they got the news the game was shutting down.  I remember reading very simillar posts

The difference is that MxO was promised outright that the servers would not be shut down while people were still playing.

So, they should take the financial hit and pay for the servers to stay up so a small few can play the game?  During a time when companies are suffering from the recession currently going on?

Yes.  That's what it means when you make a promise.

Matt_NZ wrote:

What promise was that?  That the game would be left running as long as it was economically feasible?

You can't reasonably expect SOE to keep the game running if it's costing them money. 

They promised not to shut down the game while people still played.

Matt_NZ wrote:

Go ask players of Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault, Fury, etc how they felt when they got the news the game was shutting down.  I remember reading very simillar posts

The difference is that MxO was promised outright that the servers would not be shut down while people were still playing.

Well we finally have an answer.  I know a lot of people will be relieved to have a weight off the shoulders but I for one cannot forget that this directly contradicts the promise made to us earlier. 

May SOE reap what it has sown.

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

Really, at some point isn't it illegal to do this sort of thing after a certain point? Or is it just increasingly douchbaggy?

It's worth looking in to.

The subject of this thread may be phrased as a question but I should make it clear that I was not posting in a rhetorical sense.  MxO has the same requirements as any other game and SOE is refusing to meet those requirements.  This is not good enough. 

I'd like to nominate Mave for Miss Mega City...

Someone remind him about MxO...

That guy's position reminds me of when I first joined.  My original box was set up to be handled by Monolith and I had to go through a bit of a rigamarole of transferring the subscription to SOE before I could actually start playing. 

That's a bit inauspicious considering the circumstances. 

Where is Mister Smedley?  I demand satisfaction.  And I mean that in the sense of a gauntlet to the face. 

Omni wrote:

I realize it's part frustration and part anger than makes one try to get everyone to leave a game in masses.  I'd be lying if I said this is the first time I ever saw the manuever attempted.  I can't remember many games that didn't, at one time or another, make someone mad and they threatened to kill the game with mass exodus in an attempt to hurt to developer.  

Not sure how effective the technique is compared to rational conversation.  I know what I'd rather participate in.  In all truth, I imagine there is silence across the board because there is some unknown here.  That doesn't mean nobody cares or there 's no future for the game.  Maybe it's time to go see the Oracle... or quit the game and not think about it.  

Nobody is advocating a mass exodus quite so much as SOE who has shunned us enough to convince many players to leave of their own accord.  Many members of our community have tried the rational conversation approach but getting information out of SOE has been like squeezing blood from a stone.  As far as we can see, there is no future for the game.  All most people want now is a confirmation one way or the other.

HyperViolent (and everyone else for that matter) would do well to listen to Phrack. 

The thin red line is getting ever thinner SOE, but I guess that's what you want. 

The Matrix Online needs one or more people to fill the roles of Lead Developer, Stroyteller and Animator.  The definition of 'need' is as follows:

need–noun

That is all.

SiriusStormbringer wrote:

Happy Anniversary MxO.  Yesterday's party was so big it crashed the server!

In other news: Look what we got lost for our birthday. 

From what I was told near the end we almost crashed it again!

Without offending or belittling your issue, you know you've linked the same thread like eleven times?  Half the time it's not picking up the individual post, it just goes back to the OP.