Even more story ideas

[cloudwolf]

The I don't understand the SOE part. Screw legal mumbo-jumbo, I mean it just seems like they stuck a dagger into the heart of MxO and twisted while pouring salt on the wound. I just didn't think players would choose to go with a story implemented by that company. Obviously I was wrong. Sorry folks.

Had enough of this misunderstanding on the official forums. Say what you will about SOE (we all know how lovely their business practices were in regards to budgeting) but they never had any input on the storyline. They brought the game and left the devs to their work. They never enforced creative rights, that always belonged with WB.

When the game was with WB the story was written by Paul Chadwick and the mission designers. When the game went with with SOE the storyline was written by Paul Chadwick and the mission designers. Then later Paul Chadwick and the single designer, Ben Chamberlain. Then later just Ben Chamberlain. The same people were writing the story throughout. That's the reality and no amount of SOE hate will change that.

So yeah.

*waits for the conspiracy theories to roll in*

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I only played for about 3 months before MxO shut down, that's not important. What is important is that I NEVER figured out just WTF was going on story wise. MxO Story is probably the single best resource for MxO's story but even Cloudwolf's coverage stops at like chapter 9 I think. I still only have a rough idea with WTH happened after that. To continue where MxO left off is going to further alienate new players (myself included). Plus, and this is just personal opinion, I hated all that story stuff that happened in the real (it's not called The Real Online is it?).

Not my content, that's SuperJenius'. Technically, my work only went up to something like Chapter 5. I've got materials for the rest, just not the drive or time to overhaul the site yet.

As for the comments on the real, you'll notice all 3 films were called "The Matrix:" but were just as much about happenings in the real as they were The Matrix. Moot point and one I always supported Rare on. If the story was ever gonna evolve it needed to leave "Villian of The Week" storylines behind and have some real clout behind it. The only way of doing that (damn EJP) was to move it into the real.

Man, I hope tatanya (sp?) never finds this thread.