"Smith Virologists"

[Anonymous]

http://thematrixonline.station.sony.com/players/news_archive.vm?id=335&month=current

Looks like the Oracle's askin' for help outside of Zion...

[Anonymous]

Kool.

[Tbone]

I still think using the Smith virus in an anniversary event is lame. Don't screw with the storyline like that...most people will probably think the Smith virus is REALLY back, when in reality it's just Rarebit being retarded and doing non-official events.

[Manic Velocity]

I still think using the Smith virus in an anniversary event is lame. Don't screw with the storyline like that...most people will probably think the Smith virus is REALLY back, when in reality it's just Rarebit being retarded and doing non-official events.

It's gotta be better than spending eight hours turning off a few spotlights, though.   :S

[Tbone]

I dunno. It's kinda like if they brought Neo back and he flew around tossing out buffed clothing just for the hell of an anniversary.

[Ash]

What?  Neo's been at Mall of America all this time....Weee!!!

[Tecknik]

ROFL.

[Lithium]

ANNIVERSARY LAME-O-METER

LAME [ ][O][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] COOL

[Pirus]

well atleast progress is being made... according to the lame o meter last years anniversary event was burried all the way to the left so atleast it moved up a notch

[Subb]

I dunno, I think anything could beat last years anniversary event, tbh with ya.

[Manic Velocity]

I get what you're saying, T.  People already think the Smith virus is back.  They think that's what Seraph is extracting from RSI's.

I dunno.  I'd like to reserve judgement until I see for myself what it's all about.

From what I can tell, Rarebit understands far better than Chadwick what The Matrix is about.  I don't know what happened between the time that Chadwick did his Matrix comics, to the time he started writing for MxO.  But something was seriously lost.

[Anamodiel]

Hm I thought we already said something along these lines...but if we didn't, or anyway as a reminder, I suppose I may as well mention that the Anniversary event will not be directly a part of the main storyline, and, as a brief ten day event, won't actually have story development in a meaningful sense. The only real story to leak was mentioning the Smith Virus in the first place. So what's happening is...the Smith Virus. That's the story. Any connections to other story events are yours to concoct as you see fit. The main storyline, with daily live events, and weekly critical mission rollouts, will continue in the midst of the Anniversary event madness.

The design of the Anniversary event itself has much more in common with the most recent Winter Holiday and Halloween events than with the previous Anniversary event; it will not involve flurries of org meeting, or a single "Live Event" battle across all servers with mass NPC spawns on a weekend. It will remain relatively static for the ten day duration, with all activities available from the beginning, giving you plenty of time to mess around with things and earn whatever chunks of the unique event loot you want.

Things we haven't revealed yet: more unique non-clothing items, specific design of eight of the ten T-shirts, exact nature of how the Smith Virus is spread....hmm and maybe one or two other things I'm forgetting.

Anyway, the main point is that any "story" here will really be what you make of it. This event is going to be player-driven in ways and degrees that haven't been seen in our game before. We're giving you some new tools to play with. I think you'll like them.

He quelled all those rumors. Sounds like it could be more fun than we've been lead to believe.

[Tbone]

Yes, I've read that and you've read that, but how many people do you think HAVEN'T read it and will be running around trying to figure out how the Smith virus came back and guessing if that means Neo will come back etc. etc. I'm pretty sure most people don't have their Rarebit trackers running 24/7.

[Lits]

It'd still be nice if I could be there.... WHY DOES LIFE ALWAYS GET IN THE F&^$#%^&#$ WAY??!!!!!!!