http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/arts/des...y+D1UHsvtZT9Oow

Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment wanted to make a big splash in the video game world back in March when it introduced Matrix Online, a massively multiplayer online game based on the once-hot film franchise. The game made a big splash all right, like a belly flop.

Over its first three months the game signed up fewer than 50,000 subscribers, a pittance, so in June Warner cut bait and agreed to sell the game to Sony. Last month Matrix Online was downsized from nine virtual "realms" to three, because users were having a hard time finding one another in the game's vast digital ghost town.

The troubles of Matrix Online were partly of Warner's own making; many players and critics agree that the game is a mediocre experience. But the online market used to make room for mediocre games. Now, the broader phenomenon is that so many contenders, including Matrix Online, simply cannot stand up to the overwhelming popularity of online gaming's new leviathan: World of Warcraft, made by Blizzard Entertainment, based in Irvine, Calif.

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QUOTE FROM ARTICLE ABOUT ONLINE GAMING:

"It may continue to grow in China," Mr. Pachter added, "but not in Europe or the U.S. We don't need the imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment here. It just doesn't work in the U.S. It just doesn't make any sense."

HAHAHAHA......



So WoW has 4 million suscribers and Eq2 has 500,000 eh?

4,000,000 - 500,000 = MORE LEWTS FOR US!! lol


:rolleyes:

Now that is one interesting way of looking at it!

Gee, how much more phat lewtz if we could boot Lynx and Monolith off the server... but if we did that, then who would we complain about? ;p

Not only more phat lewt, Dav... hopefully less lag, too... *HAH!!* ;p oooh, wait.. this is SONY... lol... another order of lag, coming right up! ;p