12 Days and Counting

[Ash]

September 9, 2008... that's the date my MxO subscription ends.

Now close those gaping mouths I'm not leaving FA, in fact I will continue to play as much of MxO as possible until my subscription expires. I will not however be re-subbing unless there are some drastic and immediate improvements on not only the games content, it's challenge but also the number of people who actually play it.  Side Note: I think it's stupid to even label this a "massively multiplayer" game when the phrase "microscopic multiplayer" suits it much better.  

No one wants to admit this but I feel we abandoned MxO some time ago, and you know what I don't blame anyone because it is completely understandable.  We are, at the very least, some of the smartest and most skilled gamers around and I don't care how much we love the idea behind a game, if it doesn't pose the challenge that we require then it is of no use to us and we quickly become bored and move onto the next one.  The problem here is that we find ourselves with this great internal conflict. We stay partly because of the memories and the comradery but also because of an underlying sense of obligation to the game and to this faction.  We are one of the very few factions to truly make an impact in this game and as such we can't help but feel slightly responsible when it fails.  MxO is like a child we helped raise from birth and even though we've cared for it, nurtured it and even held its hand through some tough times it still grows up to be the guy in the Rat Suit at "Chuck E. Cheese."  

A prime example of our neglect is shown by looking at the total number of current FA members (37) and then looking at the average number of members who are in-game at any given time (1).  It use to be that you could always find an FA member in-game either pvping, working on their build or just info or code farming but even that has run its course.   We've tweaked our builds to the best they're going to get, we've got so much damned $info that we could literally support a third world country and pvp is a shell of what it was originally.  I personally think that we should buy the Market Place (yes the whole Market Place) with all our combined $info and then just give the items away because Lord knows what else we're ever going to use it for.

While I'm on this subject I'll also take the time to voice my opinion on the  deplorable tactics that SOE and MxO have recently implemented in the desperate hopes to retain their cash flows.  I am of course talking about all the new "items" that appear each update, each one with an ever increasing array of buffs, ensuring that you'll continue to rush in-game and acquire it (ex. Headgear, Overdrive, and the Commando outfit) and yes, even I am guilty of it.  SOE and MxO have finally found that golden nugget, "give them useless crap to farm for and maybe they'll forget they're paying $15 bucks a month to wear a new piece of clothing."  Meanwhile the content we pay for disappears, the storyline is swiss-cheesed and the population dwindles down to nothing.  I'm still waiting for the tumbleweed to blow across Mara, some say it already has.  

I may sound pissed off and a tad bitter, but how can I not be?  I loved this game and I still love this faction.  MxO has been my one-and-only MMORPG and it was a very tough decision even to cancel my subscription six months from now.  

Like I said I'm not leaving FA; in fact my commitment to this faction and its members has never been stronger.  I honestly believe that had I not been a member of FA when SOE took over, I would have left then.  I'll still help out whenever I'm needed, in-game or out and I wait patiently for the day when we as a Faction move to another game and continue to kick ass like no other.  

Don't get me wrong, I still hold out great hope for MxO but the part of me that's a realist is knocking on that door and unfortunately I know what he's selling.

So, here it is...Six Months and counting....

Tick...Tock.

_Yotogi

[Broin]

Yotogi... I love you man  

[Fuse]

Ditto everything yotogi said.

...and also what broin said.

...and whatever the person after me says.

[Pirus]

Fuse is gay....

[Broin]

Doh... Oh no he didn't!

[Anonymous]

Well put Yotogi. I for one will be keeping an eye on "The Agency" if anyone wants to join in with me. I will still be playing MxO as well though.

[Subb]

Fuse is gay....

.... with Pirus.

[Anamodiel]

I couldn't have said this better myself.

Hear, hear!

I will, of course, be staying with MXO until it dies, even if that means jacking in once a month...

[NoCry]

[Fuse]

I knew that was going to happen.

[Bellthazor]

Fuse wrote:
I knew that was going to happen.

What?...that you were going to be outed :p  

Yotogi....the truth just needed to be said.../tiphat

[Lits]

*sigh*
I always said the last person to ever jack into the Matrix would be an Angel. It's getting closer, isn't it?

[Pirus]

Looks like it  I haven't jacked in in a while myself...

[Jeyk]

Looks like it  I haven't jacked in in a while myself...

Same here...I did hop in the other night to check in the info in the new construct, though.  I was the only guy there. :p

[Ash]

Well, that time is quickly approaching... I'd like to go out with a bang, anyone want to join me on any of the days leading up to the 9th for a one last big in-game battle royale?