SOE on MXO

[Metalogic]

(15-12-2010, 02:29 PM)QuiDormit Wrote:

(15-12-2010, 03:13 AM)Rxu Wrote: Sure it would take programming and modifying the code, but if we as players can do it how much more easy would it be for real Dev's with access to full lithtec utilities.

But those devs would need to be paid, and SOE refused to forward so much as a dime toward MxO.

The real problem is, as others have said, the moment SOE got their hands on MxO, their goal was to let it die. I'm sure it was expensive, plus no one on their staff was capable of handling it. On top of that, they had to retain people from Monolith to keep the game running, which I don't think SOE was super keen on. We all saw the devs leave or be "repurposed" or fired one by one.

The F2P discussion is really pointless the more I think about it.

The bottom line is this: A good company could have made F2P work for The Matrix Online. By the very same token, a good company wouldn't have to make it F2P, because a good company could have run the game a million times better and people would have actually paid to stick around.

100% agreed!