Monolith to Bow Out of MMO Business?

Well the forums are aflame with the news that SOE’s buying MxO and an unnamed DC-based CoH-clone (which is itself a clone of everything DC and Marvel, funny, no?). The rumors of sackings and huge changes are already floating, and it’s pretty funny…

People complain soooo much about this game, how it’s buggy, how the events suck, how they’re nerfing everything and it’s mother… yet they somehow rise to the defense of the people that are really responsible for this game, like Aether (LET Lead), Twitch (Head CSR?), and Walrus (Community Lead). I understand that these guys are cool and have been doing a good job, but you still complain about the game, and they’re the ones responsible for the parts people hate most… the events and the canned Support responses…

Why are they loved if they are doing such a horrid job? Possibly because they are familiar, or because they fear that SOE is the Evil Empire of MMOs (with six now: EQ, EQ2, SWG, Planetside, MxO, and the unanmed CoH-clone). I don’t know, but all people should do is wait. We have gotten no press releases, and no information about who’s getting fired and not getting fired.

Look, we are all here because of the Events, the core game sucks and even the events are lackluster. (Complete Corrupters anyone?) If (massive if) SOE decides to can the LET (as some rumors are suggesting) and not replace it (as some other rumors are suggesting) then they better make the core game much better (on par with a WoW or EQ2) or the game is dead. Fact. If they’re simply replacing the LET with one of their own creation (assuming they actually have some sense) then… wait and see. Because everyone here has bitched about the events, and I know it, and maybe, the Lith LET deserves to get sacked because they wouldn’t be in this situation if they actually did their f’ing jobs.

Why am I not doom saying and canceling my subscription? I don’t know… because I’m being reasonable! I came from another SOE game, SWG, and despite its fundamental flaws (*cough* Jedi *cough*) it was great fun, you take away that flaw, and the game would have remained awesome. This game is also fundamentally flawed, but on the technical side (*cough* Python *cough*) so that may be harder for SOE to repair, but if they improve the tech side, and get some consistent awesome out of the LET (whoever may be on it)… then this game will be awesome.

Just notice the “then”s and the “if”s, this will take time, time to let us (everyone together now)… wait and see.

There may be a more solid essay in there somewhere that I might bang out soon…