its absolutely ridiculous.

[Gryn]

WB has already given them what they want and won't take DCU away for any reason, so why not give the fans the source? It makes no sense to me.

Because someone else might make money off it, and they can't have that.

My question is, what incentive did SOE have to shut it down? Like others have said, they could have just left MxO limping along on one server with little or no dev support, and kept it as another game you get access to when you cough up the money for the station pass.

You are right, and I thought about that too. One of my MxO buddies was totally loaded and tried to secure the rights to MxO to host a purely non profit server and they still wouldn't go for it. The bastards are content to just keeping MxO for themselves without using it for anything.