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The Final Hours of The Matrix Online, Live!

Join us tonight for one last evening of dancing, fighting, and dance-fighting in The Matrix Online!


Tonight we'll see EXACTLY how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Tonight we'll see EXACTLY how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Tonight's the night! If you haven't been keeping up, at 11:59PM PST tonight, The Matrix Online will be shutting down forever. No glass slippers, no mice, no pumpkins, just the cold, uncaring, infinite void of MMO death. Vinny and I have been getting to know this MMO and its residents over the past few weeks, and while there's something admittedly crass about coming into an MMO to watch it die, I think I speak for both of us when I say that we've grown rather fond of MxO (that's a nickname, because nicknames are for friends) and we'll be sad to see it go.

Still, we come not to bury The Matrix Online, but to celebrate it! Which is exactly what we'll be doing TONIGHT with a LIVE STREAM of the final hours of The Matrix Online, with the help of the goodly folks at Justin.tv. The party starts at 10PM PDT, and will run right up until the very end. (If figuring out what time that is in your time zone is a complex task that somehow eludes you, Let Me Google That For You.) Vinny and I will be here commenting on the action and answering your questions along with a rotating cast of colorful and potentially intoxicated characters in the studio.

You can watch the live stream in the window below, but if you want to join the live chat, from which we'll be haphazardly pulling questions for the Giant Bomb crew, you'll have to head over to the Giant Bomb Justin.tv page. You'll probably have to register a Justin.tv account, if you don't already have one, too.
 
 
We'll be recording the last hour for archival purposes, but if you want to see our full broadcast, you need to BE HERE TONIGHT. 10PM TILL MIDNIGHT PACIFIC TIME. TELL YOUR FRIENDS! If you'd like to know what sort of willfully uninformed faux pas we've committed in The Matrix Online thus far, check out our previous videos of The Matrix Online: Not Like This.

Part 01  

Part 02

Part 03

Part 04


UPDATE: The Matrix Online is over! Thanks to all our new friends from the game, and to the 2500+ folks who were with us for the end of the world!

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I caught about the last hour and a half of it, was good fun, lot's of laughs and very romantic. Now I know, come the end of the world, getting semi-naked and snogging some random girl will be just as acceptable as getting my pink bathrobe and holding hands with what sounds like a mexican comedian.

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Watching these NLT episodes makes me pretty sad that I didn't get into MxO back in the day. No doubt it's totally uncool to admit this here, but I really like The Matrix franchise. Sequels, action games, animated spin-offs and comics included.

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Sucks I missed it. :(

When will the recorded bit show up on GB?

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Thanks Giant Bomb, kinda disappointed I did not give MxO ago when it was alive and kicking it did not look to bad.

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@theholybible said:
" well i hope to god this gets uploaded to the site at some point, being in the UK and all, i'm not gonna get to see this.:sadface: "

Wimp ;) I was up all night for this! Got to the chat at 8pm GMT and left at 9am GMT!
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@atomic_dumpling: actually i just found out that if you click the next button while watching the luchadeer video, it'll eventually bring you to the mxo video.
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@Pazy said:
" @theholybible said:
" well i hope to god this gets uploaded to the site at some point, being in the UK and all, i'm not gonna get to see this.:sadface: "
Wimp ;) I was up all night for this! Got to the chat at 8pm GMT and left at 9am GMT! "

So you referenced your own time zone by GMT, that tells us nothing. By the way, the UK is in BST right now. Just sayin'.
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Will this be put up as a regular video at some point? My sleep cycle has been rather normal recently, and I'd rather not ruin it again by staying up until 1AM. Also, EAST COAST 4 LYFE, YO.

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the video is not available in the archives :(

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You need to upload everything! No edits.

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@atomic_dumpling said:
"All I see is luchadeer, an "eat sign" and a waving Ryan Davis, set to atrocious music. "
That's how the world ends, my friend.
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man, im so pissed i missed it, will there be video of it going up this weekend?

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Some people were wondering how to watch it. Just go to their archive and click last broadcast, and keep going back until the start of it, since it will start in the middle of it. Here is the link: www.justin.tv/giantbomb/archive

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You guys should totally make a "Where were you when the MxO ended?" t-shirt!


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Alright I passed out right after the cast ended, but that was so worth it. More of this please GiantBomb.

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awww this is exactly what Vinny talked about on the podcast... or was it Ryan?... woke up saturday "Whoops"

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@Gearhead said:
"FUCK! It starts at 1am for me..."

I know, but I missed it. Damn.
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It was awesome! I hope you do these more often. And Happy Birthday Jeff!

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Dude that was awesome and Happy Birthday to Jeff.

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@Hamst3r said:
" @bigall94 said:
" @damnboyadvance: ditto. I dislike the fact that so much of the game industry centers in California :( "
More like all of the entertainment industry. Music, movies, video games, etc. It's all on the west coast. :D "
yeah and technology as a whole really. They don't call it silicon valley for nothing. 
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I fell asleep in the middle of it and woke up at 5am (2am Pacific) slumped over on my laptop to find that the stream ended.

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Damn that was kinda sad :/

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That was awsome guys, thx for all your effort. Even though the end was a bit anti-climatic (even compared to how they ended the beta) the whole thing was a kickass event. Also, happy birthday Jeff!!!!!!!

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I was in the middle of yawning and when Vinny said "remember the presidents day event where we all bought cars". I didn't get to finish the yawn as I busted out laughing. I felt like I needed to yawn for about 10 minutes but couldn't.

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@and333: I suppose. I just feel people are over critical on movies really. For me, its a 2 hour experience and if I like it that's great and if I didn't oh well. With videos games, I want to fucking know about the game before i drop 60 bones on it and invest anywhere from 20 to 100 hours of game play. But with movies I just feel like its way less of a investment.  Plus I think it's ridiculous when people decide not to like something because someone else said they didn't like it. That doesn't mean some people can't form solid opinions on things because they absolutely can and do. There is just always a pack of mindless sheep that love to jump on the bandwagon.

In the end, I look at the matrix as a pretty good set of movies and that's about it.
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Damn you Giant Bomb, god damn you. Look what I've had stuck in my head since last night.

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i love you pascal

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That was awesome. What midnight brown song was jeff doing? I was feeling it and would like an mp3 version of it. 

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I have given into peer pressure and now have a shirtless Dave icon.

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I hate you guys for all the Lady GaGa, but I love you for it as well.

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This was so awesome.

But there was so much Lady Gaga. It was stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

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I started watching during the last half hour right around when the depressed  guy was dancing in the street.  What a hilarious way to begin my live MXO viewing. Too bad I missed the first hour and a half though. Hope they do something like this again.

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I was moving, so I missed the event which makes me even more sad about missing it after I watched it...lol


Excellent documentation nevertheless.
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I think doing more things for the users is great, but it just makes me kind of annoyed and frustrated when I miss these live events. I've gotten so used to on-demand and time-shifted TV, not to mention Internet video, that I haven't had to work my schedule around a broadcast for such a long time.

I think doing live events is fine as long as there is always an "any time" archived version available. Perhaps getting the last hour is enough, I don't really know how lively it was so I can't say if I missed anything.

Looking at the numbers of users watching the live stream versus the number of unique users downloading the archived version will probably give you a good idea of the ratio of users potentially left out who were interested in this.

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@TigerDX said:
" I think doing more things for the users is great, but it just makes me kind of annoyed and frustrated when I miss these live events. I've gotten so used to on-demand and time-shifted TV, not to mention Internet video, that I haven't had to work my schedule around a broadcast for such a long time.I think doing live events is fine as long as there is always an "any time" archived version available. Perhaps getting the last hour is enough, I don't really know how lively it was so I can't say if I missed anything.Looking at the numbers of users watching the live stream versus the number of unique users downloading the archived version will probably give you a good idea of the ratio of users potentially left out who were interested in this. "

If you go to justin.tv/giantbomb theres an "archive" section with all of the live broadcast. If your saying the ratio of uses who were left out of the live discussion because they didnt attend the live but thats another issue since it was promoted well in advance and told about for weeks.
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Well that was pretty interesting an hour of getting ganked, kissing, dacing, fondling and some quite funny jokes.

edit: and now I can't stop thinking about lady gaga.

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@Pazy: Thanks for directing me to the archive section on Justin.tv. I wouldn't have noticed it unless I were looking for it!

Sorry if I wasn't very clear, but my comment about missing the live event was more about simply not being able to be there rather than being under-informed. However, with there being an archive of the entire live stream, it doesn't seem like much more of an issue. I don't like the interface design of the Justin.tv archive pages, but at least they're there.
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Damn, I missed it. Now it is time to watch it....old. Still fun though.

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"Wake up!"
>>OK<<

Wow.... that was worth waiting 2 hours for.

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That picture in the article is of my RSI! Sweet!

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I find it funny that you can still download the game client and that on the official website, it says that the servers are "open".