Sightseeing is over...

Well, I'm sorry to say but I've reached the decision to once again cancel and leave the Matrix indefinitely. When I first heard of the new changes as to how the story was to be handled, I was interested to see if it would solve the problem of never being able to be a part of the story. The original problem being down to live events never happening at the time of day I played.

Sadly the new system is no better. And again, it's the time of day that's the real problem. That and the severe lack of suitable players also playing at that time of day. It is just not feasibly possible now, to enjoy the high level content when you are forced to group during a time of day when there is literally no one to group with.

So I guess this game is destined to be only for people playing in the "popular time zones", the ones that saw all the live events of the past few years too. I doubt this problem will ever be solved and will only become more serious as it slowly causes other players to also leave.

It's a shame. This game had and still has such promise. But only if the right decisions were made for once. And while I'd like to say I'll be back to check out the anniversary event, etc., to see if any changes for the better have been made, I seriously doubt I'll actually bother again. I just don't feel this game is worth the 1730 yen ($19.13) that SOE now charge me for per month. It was already a stretch to justify the price when it was $15 a month. So, this is me signing out again. Sorry.

For those inclined to, you can always find me at bansama.com.

Sorry to hear things didn't work out for you.   

Hopefully you'll be back at some point.. not only because it will be good to have you back, but also because it will mean changes have come that I and others want to see happen.

Most things can still be done with only a few players.  I offered to show you how to do them.  I was available to help you. 

I have to admit, the content is definately soloable (with admitablly extended effort and a few recons) and "groupable" with 2 or 3.

Rare's already said the "end" of these new contant pieces are designs as extras for those able to do big teams and arn't really designed to significantly further the storyline. Or at least, if they do, they'll likely be covered in detail in the next update. Case in point, the Trinity figure appearing after the group based Wright encounter.

The level 70 executables and Wright are "group add-ons" tacked onto the end of the chapter's story. The rest is fully playable with 1 or 2 players.

I just feel your reason for quitting isn't quite justified compared to the flaws of the old Live Events system.

That said, to each their own and hope to catch you around sometime.

I believe you got a point about it, Chuui. Despise I consider myself as a roleplayer (kinda hard on vector, by the way) I haven't been able to join into something important meaning how the history is being written.

Nonetheless, I like the other features that mxo has, such as the huge citylike enviroment where I even enjoy taking a walk, the pvp that a lot of people (darn.. a lot of!) enjoy, and this friendly community.

Anyway, as a friend of mine said: Yes, I know this game sucks, but screw that! I love it.

Peace out, mate.

Take care man..I hope we see you again!

Chuui wrote:

1730 yen

Japanese eh? Anyways, even if you're not here now, the chance that you'll be back at least once again ist about 100%. And with "about 100%" I mean the f------ prophecy.

See ya man =(

OMG!!!1!!! i didn t get to be part of the "live event"....../crylikeababy

OMG i was at live event !!!!!1!!! i shot at the (fancy named story character) it  was so fun !!!!

i read these forums and what do u guys want ? devs to hand us all assassin'S mask and godbuffs ? the game is what u make it  not what they make it. so go out meet people have fun or be lame and go play WOW with the other 12 yr olds

oh and HAIL MARY!

edited: so i could add OMG i was part of live event and it changed the story line !!!!( haha yeah right )

@ charles so you'll be happy

@chuui take care man i hope one day things will come back as their planned to be

 /salute

null. don't feed the trolls.

Bayamos wrote:

charlesbronson wrote:

OMG!!!1!!! i didn t get to be part of the "live event"....../crylikeababy

Well, babies are pretty rude, much like coming into someone's goodbye thread and derailing it because you just have to talk about how they're wrong and you're right. Let's respect his opinions and wish him well. Keep the trolling to your "fansite" plz.

goodbye thread ? i didnt see one of those sorry i saw a "this game sucks bc of this so im leaving thread" but what do i care i enjoy my matrix time. so sorry if you cant find enough useropts to enjoy yours..........

charlesbronson wrote:

OMG!!!1!!! i didn t get to be part of the "live event"....../crylikeababy

OMG i was at live event !!!!!1!!! i shot at the (fancy named story character) it  was so fun !!!!

i read these forums and what do u guys want ? devs to hand us all assassin'S mask and godbuffs ? the game is what u make it  not what they make it. so go out meet people have fun or be lame and go play WOW with the other 12 yr olds

oh and HAIL MARY!

edited: so i could add OMG i was part of live event and it changed the story line !!!!( haha yeah right )

Mhm..Brilliant idea!!

I have a feeling... Chuui will be back. I came back several times since I just can't stay away from the Matrix.

I offered to show you how to do them.  I was available to help you.

In the long run through, you weren't. Like I said to you, our timezones while close, still didn't overlap anywhere near enough. In fact, I only ever recall seeing you in game two or three times the whole time I played.

I have a feeling... Chuui will be back. I came back several times since I just can't stay away from he Matrix.

Sadly, I won't be. I finally made the choice after thinking a lot more on the matter and I have deleted all of my characters from my primary account. If I could justify the near $20 monthly charge, I'd reactivate my second account just to finally delete those characters too. But then, considering that I'll never reuse those characters anyway, why waste money in deleting them, the same way I wound up wasting money by creating the account in the first place?

OMG!!!1!!! i didn t get to be part of the "live event"....../crylikeababy

This is a shining example of why I feel that I wasted the money on my second account. You see, I used to be a part of LESIG and used the second account specifically for that. Most character slots went to secondary characters used to help booster the LESIG events created with the aid of Rare and HCFrog, others such as The Cartographer were used to pose puzzles, that I literally spent hours on creating, to the members of the community. I even did the old LO stint for a bit. But through all that, what was the reward that I and most other LESIG members received?

*****ing and whining from members of the community. Either here on the forums, in game through tells, or via PMs to Rare/HCFrog. Those far outnumbered any indications of appreciation. If that wasn't bad enough, there was also the harassment some LESIG members had to put up with and the ******** who thought it fun to use what ever exploits they could to gain information relating to upcoming events with the sole aim of destroying such events.

There's nothing more annoying than spending a good month helping to design an event, creating characters for it and so forth to wake up at 4 am (the usual time that events happened in my timezone) only to find that someone had leaked the entire event. So instead of performing an event that had been planned, the LESIG members who hadn't had enough of seeing their work runined by an ungreatful community, had to try and come up with new events in a very short amount of time. Naturally, this would always be followed by more whining from the community.

Hell I still remember all the tells about how I was "ruining" the game (to put it in its politest form) and being /ccr'd for this and that when we writing out DifferenceEngine -- using a story line created by HCFrog no less!

So, remembering all that (and it being the reason I stopped playing in the first place), I realise there is nothing left in this game that I would want to return to. Enjoy it if you can; but next time, really consider about how you treat the people who spent a large amount of their time and money on providing content for you.

Chuui wrote:

I have a feeling... Chuui will be back. I came back several times since I just can't stay away from he Matrix.

Sadly, I won't be. I finally made the choice after thinking a lot more on the matter and I have deleted all of my characters from my primary account. If I could justify the near $20 monthly charge, I'd reactivate my second account just to finally delete those characters too. But then, considering that I'll never reuse those characters anyway, why waste money in deleting them, the same way I wound up wasting money by creating the account in the first place?

I'm seeing more and more people take this stance, and I can't say that I blame anyone for thinking this way. With money getting tighter and tighter, it's harder to argue spending it on games in general - especially games one is not happy with. I can't say who will come back and who won't, but at this rate, I'll don't believe people will come back until I see it; despite the "prophecy", as it were.

Neo wrote:

It was a lie, Morpheus. The prophecy was a lie. It was all another system of control.

Peace, man. Games aren't the answer anyway.

Chuui wrote:

I offered to show you how to do them.  I was available to help you.

In the long run through, you weren't. Like I said to you, our timezones while close, still didn't overlap anywhere near enough. In fact, I only ever recall seeing you in game two or three times the whole time I played.

Well I saw you plenty.  I have about 12 hours a day free during which I can log in and I know you're not in England. 

Chuui wrote:

... others such as The Cartographer were used to pose puzzles, that I literally spent hours on creating...

Thanks, I really enjoyed Sati's Homework and have often wished for more.