03 June 09 - 03:58TINAC Reported on this months ago. Once again no sitation or credit given.

SOE to Close The Matrix Online on July 31st
By Bryn Williams | May 29, 2009
Sony Online Entertainment will shut down its Matrix MMORPG at the end of next month.
A community post by SOE's Daniel "Walrus" Myers today states how the company's four-year-old MMORPG based on The Matrix Online will officially close down on July 31st. Beta testing began back in May 2004 and saw the game go live in April of 2005. Since then followers of the MMORPG have been jacking into servers, but that's all about to end. In May 2004, I embarked upon a journey. I decided to take the red pill in a big way—I became the online community lead for The Matrix Online. Later that year, many of you joined me as you jacked in for the first time. It was a brand new world—a vision of online games that didn't involve elves, spaceships, or dragons. We became part of the Matrix storyline; living our own adventures in the world painted by the movies.

It seems not so long ago I was jumping into Mara Central and going toe-to-toe with other devs at E3 2004. I had no idea this journey would take me to a whole different company, managing a major revision of the game, and my first producing gig. "Long, strange trip" doesn't describe the half of it. Myers notes that the support team will be crafting an end-of-the-world event which will see the game off in style.

Blue pills, red pills... see what happens when you do drugs?
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As reported by TINAC Feb 2009.  Does TINAC get any credit?  Of course not.

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07 May 09 - 02:10Because These Games Aren't Cheap and The Up Keep is Expensive!

In his lawsuit, Garriott alleges breach of contract, fraud and negligent misrepresentation on the part of NCsoft. He clams to have suffered "more than $27,000,000 in actual damages."

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Subscription fees are the biggest rip off, ever.  If Garriott was making this kind of money, well, the profit margins are insane.

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06 March 09 - 06:35Stating The Obvioius

After reading the Escapist yesterday, and having an article forwarded to me by my best friend, it seems that something wanted me to write about gamers in failing relationships because of MMOs.


There is no doubt in my mind that many people have been transformed into slavering, one-minded cretins because of a game. The obsession with grinding levels or getting loot can become the sole focus of their world. However, after reading this Escapist article, I feel less bad for the certain type of whiney jerk who can’t confront their spouse in any fashion. “Ohhhh, my wife doesn’t pay attention to me anymore! I make dinner, and she doesn’t care, and she doesn’t wash the dishes. I’ve tried to tell her that she spends too much time with WoW, but she doesn’t listen.”

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25 February 09 - 01:01Star Trek

Just in case you were worried that you weren't nerd enough, Cryptic Studios is putting out a Star Trek MMORPG. Star Trek Online is threatening to make me want to call my best friend "Number One" and start shrieking at people to beam me somewhere. I'll also start dressing anyone I consider expendable in red shirts.

Anyway, Star Trek Online is due out sometime in 2010. GameSpot has an awesome trailer here. (Oh, listen to the voice-over guy's huge vocal change around 1:03; it made me crack the hell up.) The space battle graphics look incredible--but I'm a little confused as to why the human/alien race models appear so awkward. It's almost like Cryptic put all their effort into the ships and locales, then got to the races and half-assed it.

Really, though, I feel that this game is going to be pretty amazing. You'll be able to customize your own race, or play as one of the pre-existing cultures. (Klingon FTW!) You can have epic battles in space, ship versus ship, or you can beam down to planets and have your crew duke it out face-to-face with the hostiles. Personally, I'll be setting my phasers from "stun" to "turn into pile of goo" when exploring new worlds.

Interestingly enough, this game is going to be available on both the XBox 360 and on PC. I'm curious to see how the interface of an actual MMO works on the 360, as I'd be worried that the controller might be clunkier than using a mouse.

I'm very excited for this game, so I'll keep you posted with more details as they become available.

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16 February 09 - 01:37Already covered... Over a Month Ago.

Researchers ranging from psychologists to epidemiologists have wondered for some time whether online, multiplayer games might provide some ways to test concepts that are otherwise difficult to track in the real world. A Saturday morning session at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science described what might be the most likely way of finding out. With the cooperation of Sony, a collaborative group of academic researchers at a number of institutions have obtained the complete server logs from the company's Everquest 2 MMORPG.

Study discovers that SOE could give a rats ass about their customers' privacy rights, and EQ2 players are ~31 years old, nearly half of them are ugly, old, fat, depressed, alcoholic women (40%), the remaining 60% are depressed, drug abusing alcoholic, men who are also fat.

This fits my stereotypical view of an EQ2 player to a fucking T.

Now, what would happen if they studied the population of a successful MMRPG rather than a failed one? For example, I doubt the World of Warcraft customer base is made up of fat, depressed, substance abusing, people.

Oh wait, Blizzard cares about their customers privacy.... Never mind.

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11 February 09 - 01:10Stating the Obvious: Sexual Predators and Online Games

This week, police in Pennsylvania arrested a 23 year old man for engaging in an indecent and illegal relationship with a 14 year old girl after the two met in the online game World of Warcraft. Has this online world become a new sexual stalking ground?

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03 February 09 - 01:02The Lowest Quality Hardware Ever. Rock Band.

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30 January 09 - 00:50Gold Selling RMT is Worth a Lot of Cash

Despite the best efforts of MMORPG developers like Blizzard, gold farming services continue to rake in serious dough in exchange for virtual currency. There's probably no better example of that than My MMO Shop -- a seller of in-game money that, Yahoo Finance reports, was just purchased for a cool $10 million.

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