Problem is three-fold.  One...  Everyone starts out as zionist, so everyone that is genuinely wanting zion, too lazy to switch, or too dumb to understand that they can end up zionist.

Coupled with the 4000 n30's or neo's or neeo's pretty much skews the numbers hard in the favor of zion for any special events or just general teaming up.

two...  The way you are decided as a faction is by the quests you do, but they all add to one faction while subtracting an equal amount from the other 2...  therefore, you can never have positive standing with more than one faction, or any chance of being a double agent...  or be hated less by a faction... or anything.

you either work for a faction, or directly against it.  ( I personally think betrayal missions would be very cool)

Three.....  The game is totally deviod of player life.  I would be rounding up to say there were 75 people on at any time on a server.  There may be moments, but that is likely the weekly average.  Even if all of these people were zionist, it is just a small world full of single players and npc's... that is what makes it not fun.

Originally posted by smitty0356

Problem is three-fold.  One...  Everyone starts out as zionist, so everyone that is genuinely wanting zion, too lazy to switch, or too dumb to understand that they can end up zionist.

Coupled with the 4000 n30's or neo's or neeo's pretty much skews the numbers hard in the favor of zion for any special events or just general teaming up.

two...  The way you are decided as a faction is by the quests you do, but they all add to one faction while subtracting an equal amount from the other 2...  therefore, you can never have positive standing with more than one faction, or any chance of being a double agent...  or be hated less by a faction... or anything.

you either work for a faction, or directly against it.  ( I personally think betrayal missions would be very cool)

Three.....  The game is totally deviod of player life.  I would be rounding up to say there were 75 people on at any time on a server.  There may be moments, but that is likely the weekly average.  Even if all of these people were zionist, it is just a small world full of single players and npc's... that is what makes it not fun.

u don need lots of peeps to RP. plus playas are all voer the city probaby a few thousind at any time.

Originally posted by neolivesftw

 

Originally posted by smitty0356

Problem is three-fold.  One...  Everyone starts out as zionist, so everyone that is genuinely wanting zion, too lazy to switch, or too dumb to understand that they can end up zionist.

Coupled with the 4000 n30's or neo's or neeo's pretty much skews the numbers hard in the favor of zion for any special events or just general teaming up.

two...  The way you are decided as a faction is by the quests you do, but they all add to one faction while subtracting an equal amount from the other 2...  therefore, you can never have positive standing with more than one faction, or any chance of being a double agent...  or be hated less by a faction... or anything.

you either work for a faction, or directly against it.  ( I personally think betrayal missions would be very cool)

Three.....  The game is totally deviod of player life.  I would be rounding up to say there were 75 people on at any time on a server.  There may be moments, but that is likely the weekly average.  Even if all of these people were zionist, it is just a small world full of single players and npc's... that is what makes it not fun.

 

u don need lots of peeps to RP. plus playas are all voer the city probaby a few thousind at any time.

you do realize those people walking around with a zombie gaze are npc's (None player charecters) right.   Unless you bought  "thousind" of copies of this game.  RPFTW

Well I tried it out and have determined that it sucks beyond words and I am now back on the best game of all time...CoX.

 sorry man good luck finding a game you will enjoy.

It was actually pretty empty when I had played it for a couple months recently after the game had come out, not extremely empty but it had a lower population than most mmos I was used to. Just my input, can't really remember all too well though. Last time playing it was a long time ago.

I played this game for so long. I used to defend it against all odds. It used to be devoid of anything that resembled content thanks to Monolith's brilliant idea of never creating any from the get go due to their live events. Nowadays though they actually have added things to do believe it or not.

There are archive missions that reward you with tokens that you can trade in for some sweet looking gear. New archive's are released bimonthly or monthly with new rewards in place each time an archive is added. The Pandora's Box arch is pretty nifty when you hit level 50 or close to it. Pretty cool stuff there.It's definately not a solo adventure when doing that.

There are still live events held on a daily basis which is surprising heh.

There is also a whole new starting experience that leads you from collector to collector to get some sweet noob gear. The overall choices in abilities throughout the leveling process is pretty daunting as well.

It is not a game for the MMO noob as alot of the things you can do are pretty much hidden. There is relatively no hand holding anywhere except the starting area which has been revamped for the better.

Overall I think it's still cool because there is nothing like it out there. It's Cyberpunk. There just isn't a lot of that out there.

PS: I don't play anymore lol. CoX FTW!

I agree this game needs to die and be remade. It's hard for devs to let go of a game they put so much of their passion into though. I haven't played it but I do wish to try it, I enjoyed the first film.

But, if it's as bad as people say, I think they need a "reopening" if you will.

If you are referring to the daily outburst of angry players in the global channel as a "live event," then there are live events every couple hours on most servers.  It's too bad the movies are getting a little too old for a grand opening of a new title.  I too, had high expectations when the game released, only to see it slide into the SOE bargain bin.

Someday they'll make it free or SOE will drop the title and somehow another company will pick it up and make some sort of mmo out of it, but I don't see that for a very very very long time. 

Tried it out. It's not a bad game I guess. The combat is a bit hard to grasp but it might be fun if I get a little more into it.

First login I saw two people. One running around and one logging in as I was logging out. Second login I only saw one person. I did a '/who' and there were 12 players online. heh. I was on from 5-7 in the morning but that's still rather low.

If I had some friends to play it with it wouldn't be so bad. Theres nothing I hate more than playing an MMO completely void of people.

    Ok, I'd like to set some things straight for all the people that are thinking about trying MxO. My opinion is slightly biased, because I am an MxO player and Matrix fan.

First of all, people like Neolives, are non-existent in the MxO community. I have not met a person yet that has typed anything that....idiotic. I play on Recursion, which is the most populated of the 3 servers, so I can without a doubt say that the community is tight-knit, friendly, helpful and extremely dedicated. So many times have I asked for the apoc radio address, to have it given to me by at least 2 people, which to most mmo players, is un-heard of. My experience outside of MxO is that if you don't know something, your obviously the biggest idiot in the fucking world, and are now the target of every guy that knows the hotkey for the map.

Second, the gameplay is indeed repetitive, but that doesn't mean you have to let it be that way. Most of the people who quit because of the games repetitive nature, didn't like it at all. There are many things to do, all the time. Events are common, but I myself do not participate in these normally, and I still find things to do when I do not want to grind. Whether it's just hyper-jumping all over the city or sitting at mara-C and dueling others. The radio stations also keep me very busy, as Apoc frequently has meetings with the listeners.

Now onto the fan-boy part. I DO NOT (repeating) DO NOT follow MxO's continuation of the story. I'm satisfied with the matrix movies and I do not want to risk it being fucked up. People say this is one of the features that saves the game, but even though I don't follow it, I still have fun.

    So, I'll list the best and worst features in my opinion.

Pros - Amazing community.

City environment can actually keep me busy.

The ability to change my character class at any time.

Complete immersion, whether its being chased by an agent or seeing zionites fight the machines.

 The game has a lot of players that role-play constantly, which is fun to get in on.

Cons - Repetitive.

Combat system is viewed by some to be bothersome.

At times the game is barren in players, but this is very rare.

Originally posted by Shifty360

Although I have not played in more than a year, I suspect it is somewhat on the downward slope.

I wish they would take this game, scrap it and create another Matrix Online. Atleast try some new concepts and ideas, start from a different point (possibly before "The One").

I played at launch and got to level 50, along with the first few on the server, and I remember how fun it was. Unfortunately, when they killed Morpheus off I just said to hell with this and quit. (I was Merovingian btw).

Anyone know if <The Collective> or <The Sirens> are still around?

I remember those Outfits? or Crews? Whatever they were called.

www.thecollectiveguild.com

The game isn't really "dead."  It has a steady stream of subscribers, a very close knit community (though drama does ensue, and some fun pvp. 

I love how people rabidly defend dying games especiallly $OE games like this game and SWG, just let it die

Originally posted by firefly2003

I love how people rabidly defend dying games especiallly $OE games like this game and SWG, just let it die

ns, imo its dead - move on people

"No Lieutenant, your game is already dead."

The odd thing is why people feel the need to pronounce a game dead, if it were dead no such emphasis would be needed!

MxO dared to be different and paid the price but it reamins one of the few real alternatives to dull generic elfdom out there worth taking a second glance. In fact the game engine is now very solid and the pvp system is the best of any mmo of its generation, the community is great and the realisation of the Matrix is spot on (even if the devs are now working against it).

The continuing story theme was a great concept, unfortunately poorly executed and heavily underdeveloped in the move to SOE it is now largely disconnected/contradictory to the rest of the game, but on all other levels the game shines and is well worth sampling by any decent mmoer.

I wish I'd had the wisdom of the poster above not to involve myslef with the 'story', because otherwise I'd still have been enjoying it 4 years in...no mean feat for any game!

i played the trial, the game had some fun stuff but missions were too repetitive, just didnt grab me. but the game aint dead, theres some ppl running around... almost all high lvl. i doubt mxo has over 10k subs.. ao with its 12k seemed much more lively to me when i played it, also in the p2p zones there were more people around

i did trial on recursion server, the only one to achieve medium load (and that is in at primetime)

but dead? no...

Originally posted by 3on1

i played the trial, the game had some fun stuff but missions were too repetitive, just didnt grab me. but the game aint dead, theres some ppl running around... almost all high lvl. i doubt mxo has over 10k subs.. ao with its 12k seemed much more lively to me when i played it, also in the p2p zones there were more people around

i did trial on recursion server, the only one to achieve medium load (and that is in at primetime)

but dead? no...

A game with virtually no development in many years and player base of a few hundred is by all means dead.

MxO might not have development team that other major games are blessed with but the few devs we have are trying to pump out as much content as they can with what they can work with. As stated in a previous post they just released a new construct with what looks like another one on its way.

As for how many players the games has.... it's enough for SOE to keep three servers up and running... so that right there should say something. There are more than a couple of hundred....

Too bad what you all write here, doesn't help me make up my mind. I kind of miss MxO, but I couldn't cope with the repetiveness then, so I am not sure if I can now. And since I am not a PvPer really......

I don't mind the combat, although I always thought (even after the combat V2 or whatever it was called) that the randomizer was too random (for better or worse, dep. on if you lost or won). It is the barren areas that turns off, as in many other MMOs. Good in a way if you just want to solo, bad if you need help.

Are the Vixens still around? Was a fun guild, was there at the start of the game, females (IC not necessarily iRL) only