{"id":4192,"date":"2009-07-28T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"the-matrix-online-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/4192-the-matrix-online-shuts-down","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix Online shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Matrix Online, Monolith Production&rsquo;s MMO which was released in 2005, is officially being closed down. <br \/>The game proved reasonably popular in the timeframe surrounding the movie releases but slowly began to lose steam in the following years. As of June 1 2009 Sony officially suspended commercial services of the Matrix online, although the game itself continues to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Current members will we unplugged for good at the end of July, at which point players who have paid for services beyond this date will be refunded.<\/p>\n<p>From June 1 Sony no longer offered any customer support and ceased to provide updates for the game.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fudzilla.com\/content\/view\/14825\/1\/\" target=\"_self\">Fudzilla<\/a> Sony phased out all of the characters who were in the original movie, a move which is said to have contributed to the game&rsquo;s fated downfall.<\/p>\n<p>In addition the original flawed combat system was allegedly replaced with another, even more flawed system which left players feeling frustrated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=2044\" target=\"_self\">Discuss The Matrix Online<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players plug out of the Matrix for good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}