the End of all things...
An odd sense of sweet sorrow, when AC2 server shuts down for the final moment, this poster writes of the last min before the end. Terra Nova had this article awhile back about the reactions of its players. It brought an odd sense of end of existence as user avatars disappeared for the last time. The Wired article linked by TN also tells us of how players where traveling the world exploring things that they done in the past, taking sceenshots and noting their memories. The Wang wonders what is like to when we know our reality will end one day, what will we do…
The Wang has been in 2 big MMOs of late, Star Wars galaxies and Final fantasy XI. Both of which the Wang left due to crappy game development. So the Wang never really saw an end to these worlds. And The Wang admits, after 1yr+ time spent with my litle Human Doctor in Star Wars, the Wang was rather sad to leave that world. I logout at the same palced i first started, in the Moenia. The wang remembers first logging into the swampy city of Moenia and learninig how to play. Bu tthe game's devlopers took the game to a weird weird place. Goaless and meaningless with no content and just re hashing the same stuff over and over without a sense of creativity. Still though it was a personal and sad moment to watch my avatar logout for the last time.
This does bring an odd sense of a virtual ending, still those time invested, the sweat poured and heart and soul one used to create their avatars will die the same moment someone flips a server switch. Sometimes the Wang wonders when the divine IT dude up above one day will do the same… Like Earth the reality show cancelled one day due to poor ratings. Who knows. What will we all do, will we get a big server warning?
DeVotchka - How it Ends (live)
Joystiq article
Terra Nova article
Wired Article
Thankyous:
Joystiqs
