The Matrix Online Shrinks by Two Thirds - 30.7.05

Sony Online Entertainment have announced they will be reducing the number of worlds in The Matrix Online from nine to three, due to a lack of players:

Recently, members of the community have noted that it can be difficult to find other players in The Matrix: Mega City. The current level of population density can limit opportunities for socializing with other players which are such a key part of our worlds.

Rather than simply removing six world's and moving players into the other three existing ones, SOE have created three all-new world's, and are offering some benefits to players to make up for the inconvenience, namely extra currency and XP points can be earned for a limited time. The company also left the hard work of naming the new world's to the players themselves, and recently hosted a poll on the official forums where players could vote on a range of different names. The winning names were Syntax, Recursion and Vector.

SOE recently acquired The Matrix Online from developer Monolith and Warner Bros. and announced a plan to eventually fold it into their Station Access service, where customers can get access to all of SOE's MMOG's like EverQuest and Star Wars: Galaxies with one subscription.

The Matrix Online News: Community Update -- World Merge via Gamespot

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