51. "Zion, like Morpheus, was destroyed in The Matrix Online" In response to In response to 49
I think a lot of the inspiration for giving Neo a life as a game designer and selling The Matrix as a video game within The Matrix was to help them remind people you have to read a Wiki page to answer some of your questions.
Zion was destroyed near the end of the game; Niobe had built a New Zion deeper below the Earth which angered the machines and ended the truce between humans and machines that Neo initiated. Zion was destroyed and New Zion eventually abandoned.
I guess it's not clear how much of that is truly canon, but all of it is SUPPOSED to be.
They should've had Neo been more than, I dunno, not at all confused by Morpheus looking and sounding completely different and used that as a vehicle to explain some of the stuff from that game that matters here. Or, y'know, not spent all that time talking about strawberries and whatnot during the Niobe info-dump since she was directly involved in the loss of Zion but instead kind of papers over that part.