Comments on: The Matrix Online: Unplugged

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:42:58 +0000

@Lux – I’m not sure reality bears out your opinion. By your logic EverQuest II, Warhammer Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and many other “through the internet” games ought to be dead. Even the original EverQuest made only a half-assed attempt at Mac support, and it certainly is alive and kicking 10 years later. And then there is Free Realms.

And, on the flip side, CCP offered Mac and Linux client for EVE Online but stopped Linux work on it due to lack of interest. And their Mac client is currently pretty lacking at the moment. It has been crap since Apocrypha, so is quite clearly not on their priority list.

I make a point of comparing Mac and Windows versions, if they exist, of games that I play. The only company that really does a good Mac client for MMOs that I have seen is Blizzard. I understand that City of Heroes has a Mac client out now, but I haven’t seen anything on how well it plays.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:55:00 +0000

I’m not sure MxO’s failure was entirely due to it not being natively available on the Mac or Linux. As a Linux user myself, I’d love to see more games work on that OS, but I’m not holding my breath.

By: lux

lux — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:19:31 +0000

Games made to be played through the Internet have to be compatibile to the whole Internet, or are ill-conceived.

The Matrix Online was Windows-only (no Mac, no Linux). Good on Windows, bad on the Internet. Ill-conceived games die.

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:33:40 +0000

One of my 2009 Progdictionations was that any SOE product that did not get RMT was doomed. I was thinking Vanguard when I wrote that, but then it got RMT.

By: Anjin

Anjin — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:24:38 +0000

I’m kind of sad about this. I never played the game, but I have a good friend from WoW for whom this was his first MMO love. He’s always tell me about what craziness he was up to in MxO. I’m bummed out his favorite game is going away.

By: Atnor

Atnor — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:32:15 +0000

I hope they give Vanguard one of the devs :) Silius could really use some bodies!!

By: Hudson

Hudson — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:03:27 +0000

Oh man, I got the email last night and I think we double posted this about 10 minutes apart.

Next time Tipa….next time….