Comments on: The Matrix Online – Unplugged & Where It All Went Wrong

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:55:37 +0000

everything that has a beggining has an end. let us now give a moment of silence that the game was sold to SOE…and died within a few years, anyone got a link to the client?

By: Madhattah

Madhattah — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:00:38 +0000

As it was said before, “Everything that has a beginning, has an end.” I saw the beginning with great hope and the end with a profound sadness.

By: Anrkist

Anrkist — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:31:09 +0000

Sati.

By: Karate MA

Karate MA — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:18:52 +0000

I joined the game during the BETA. Still had my BETA in-game t-shirt till the end. I remember simply clicking “Block”, being a level 40+, and going semi-afk, and 0 damage was done. NPC/MOB could not touch you. At all. For any reason.

After SOE Combat Revision, A level 40 could easily get hit and attacked while in block mode, by a level 5 MOB.

In short, could have been a WoW killer if done correctly.

By: marc

marc — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:14:06 +0000

private server is up in testing stages but u can log on and mess around, im not gonna provide a link, but perhaps googling “the matrix online emulator”… hmmm… that second link sounds interesting… might be a good place to start…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:08:07 +0000

I would LOVE to play on a private server! I see its been a few months so an update would be nice.

By: still a fan of MxO

still a fan of MxO — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:15:50 +0000

good article and good comments. I loved MxO. Yes, it was repetitive once you capped out, but I never got tired of kicking the crap out of some NPCs or fellow players every now and then.

I think the community is what set MxO apart.

RIP MxO, you’re missed.

By: Player

Player — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:37:37 +0000

any private servers up running, if anyone know of one please post it on this site… i have some good memories about this game… hard to see it go down… they could atlest let the servers run… so the ppl could stil play, bether than shutting it all down like this.. i miss it…

best regard

bigg fan :*(

By: Trebor-Nesihtam

Trebor-Nesihtam — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:27 +0000

That’s lame, I’ve always loved the matrix movies. Always wanted to play MxO. Since I heard that IT was actually a GOOD matrix game whereas Enter the Matrix was the muppet baby equivalent and Path of Neo was just garbled with wonky controls. I get a laptop and go to try out MxO and lo and behold! It’s dead! Terrible news. However, I tip my hat to he or she who calls him/herself “Wake Up” with the companion cube image. The movies are what made this game interesting. but it seems we both have a certain level of respect for the game side of it. Perhaps in some other realm of existance this game is “still alive”

By: not Neo

not Neo — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:31:56 +0000

I didnt play Matrix Online but i was very entertaining to read this review. laughed out loud a few times

By: XOIIO

XOIIO — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:15:32 +0000

Are there any private servers still up or some way I could get the game? I missed out on it (I’m only 15) and it’s looked amazing. I’m extremely sad that it shut down. If anyone can help I’d really appreciate it. PopSciLover@gmail.com

By: marc

marc — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:55:56 +0000

i played mxo at launch left came back left again and was just planning on coming back a third time a couple days ago search for the game and find out surprise the matrix is dead. the points you raise are valid but i can explain a lot of them. lith and wb bailing – they had never run an mmo before and realized they were in way over their heads. the sale to sony staved off a much quicker (read: within one year of launch) death. i read the game only moved around 50,000 copies at launch, lets be really generous and say 3/4 of those people keep subscribing. thats not a lot of money. the sale to sony meant sony can say look at all these games you can play with station pass and kept it on life support for much longer. i’m guessing at the very end right before the announcement of closure the game had less than 1000 non station pass subscribers across all servers. Killing off the main characters… yeah it sucked, but it all comes down to money. they got limited voice work to begin with, and with the game not making much money they’re not going to pay jada pinkett smith and laurence fishburne for more voicework. and the fan outcry would have been huge off all the sudden some other person is doing morpheus voice. the switch from rendered cinema to storyboards – same deal. the death of live events, can’t argue with you there. the combat revision, the game needed that badly. to me the matrix was always about kung fu and gunfights, not virologists and ballistas wth which everyone was in cr1. so that was a good thing. and yeah the story got ridiculous, i quit the first time around that whole attack of the 50ft women eyeball laser stuff. i am still upset this game is gone forever, as it did have a ton of potential, the most helpful mmo community (and generally more mature) then any other i’ve seen, and the interlock combat you can’t find anywhere else and was awesome. theres some real work going on to decode packets and get a private serv up i hope those guys succeed in the next year or so