Nov 25, 2017 6:39 AM
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epsilonmonkey
That hurts
nanamonster
PervertedWizard
fuck why am i crying ...
enderlord2
This is why sentient simulators are a terrible idea
DoktorLurker
And her pixels were reused in Minecraft. Reborn in a body not her own, angular & sharp, stiff & unforgiving. Her soul wept at the indignity.
SHiNiXiA
In lieu of this post, I recommend reading the following manga: The Gamer, Overlord, and The Legendary Moonlight Sculpture.
MisterBrent
When a comic hits the feels...
MiLK42
i love all the stuff on the shelves. hellraiser cube. hellboy glove. indy's 3 stones from temple of doom. probably more.
armorhide406
Free Guy, amongst other things. Oh and fuck games shutting down with no end of life plan
Felcatinvoid
somehow reminded of Log Horizon, where npc's are not just scripted but AI
Mournclaw
I don't remember why, but I stopped midway the second season... The first one was pure awesomeness, tho
That's one well-equipped shop in the first panel... They even have a plumbus in there!
Oh gods it's so full of awesome stuff *gasp* is that the never-ending story!?
Columcille
13th floor
doc776
- a short romance from Nostalrius's final minute.
ellert0
:(
temporarilyhuman
Would make me more sentimental if the "lords'" actual names weren't "capslock17" and "bebekillr".
ReallyGoodBee
I went through a joke characters phase in WoW. "Help us, Mancopter! You're our only hope!".
SaltheartFoamfollower
There was that one user named Flynn, but he took it a little too far.
wildsoapbox
Speaking of which, when is Westworld Season 2?
Sometime in Spring 2018 is the last I've heard
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
That is one humdinger of a story there, partner. Shall we drink to the lady in the white shoes?
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
That is some really fucking neat AI.
eldonq
I'm damn-near ashamed of how many things I recognized in that first panel...
GendouLovesDucklings
Marvel Heroes players today.
melancholypanda
If you like this, check out Thursday Next. Great books about what happens to the characters in novels when no-one's reading. Gets real meta.
I once had a nightmare about a story I never finished. The characters were stuck in this endless loop without conclusion and it scared them.
jeejeejerrycotton
This would be much better if instead of "Lord Walker" it began with "Lord -=#W33dd00d420#=-[RUS], wonderful to have you back."
IRateYourChristmasSelfies
Does it count as a death if you simply cease to be? Would you be more, or less angry if this was your fate?
Maraak
Buddy that is what death *is*, as far as we can tell. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something or decide not to face it.
InexplicablyAvailableUsername
I believe my death will essentially be me ceasing to be. I'm okay with that.
pibalo
Interedtkng responses here. I think death and "ceasing to be" are very different. Death involves the act of dying. (1/)
After your brain and thoughts and self end, your body decomposes and you remain in the memories of others. Death and ceasing to be are (2/)
very different things (3/3)
You can die without the idea of you dieing.
howaboutthisonethen
Think the question you're looking for is "What happens when you die"
TheType95
Dying is basically just a living system being rendered non-functional, I feel it makes no difference whether a piece of metal has been /
fired through your cranium, intersecting with and disrupting your brainstem, or half your body is teleported away, or the Universe you are /
occupying has been disrupted sufficiently to destroy you. If your body/mind is represented by a configuration in a memory storage medium, /
disrupting that medium is the cause and reason of your death. Plain and simple.
fellowimgurean
I used to play Runescape and this hit home. It never ended but it did in a way when they started making it like WOW and when I moved on.
XplodeOman
I miss playing Old School Runescape but my acc got permabanned for something i didn’t do with no chance of getting it back :/
ionlyhaveonetesticle
Old school runescape is till a thing
lolzomg123
I hear they keep updating Old School Runescape too.... Updating it!
greenking13
It's pretty fun, they are still adding quests and new zones, but with the OSRS feel to them.
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marionic
The user was talking about their own experience. They never said it was the first.
KEVlN
I hated evolution of combat. I almost had completionist cape, now I don't car too much for it.
Munnin41
Old school runescape my friend
Goldenteckel
itrymybesttooffendsomeone
FUCK YOU FOR MAKING ME FEEL MORE
Teevo83
You're mean. :(
JoeTheMadScientist
goldengaia
I was hoping this was here
SweetSweetMemes
..... But bowties are cool
IFriggenLoveBears
MeanWinchester
How dare you remind me of one of the top five saddest moments of my life! ????????
Years have passed, yet we still miss D. Tennant...
InqSerena
MrA007
I came here to laugh not to feel but good god my heart
SoftcoreFavorites
What the fuck dude.. that's like posting "Where do You think we are?"
Nathanyel
Fuck, that line alone almost got me sobbing.
You're right : that Scrubs moment is also in the top 3, along with Fry's dog Futurama ending (I don't post its gif to spare your feelings).
Futurama ending Dr.who Tennant gif scrubs gif and birth
AnActualAustralian
Ed...ward
DetectiveSherlockHolmes
Fuck you...
DaedelusMuse
Fun fact: Allons-y means "Let's go"
chrisat928
When an MMO is dying they should program random NPCs to know it and they start freaking out.
MrBrains
When Planetside 1 was about to end, the dev's integrated an apocalyptic meteorstorm which killed everyone. Epic way to end a game.
https://youtu.be/tOi-vlzRHEw
PikaChunin
(Source: Wronchi Animation - MORGL v TYRANDE)
UnluckyScarecrow
When FFXIV launched it was terrible, so before it rebooted they put a meteor into the game world and it canonically destroyed everything
For some time before the servers closed, the meteor hung in the sky of the game world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XU1x2WNmpU
birthdaybaboon
Just wait for real-time brain simulated AI
BH5432
What they should do is bring out a last patch that makes the game playable as a single player.
MikroStalja
When an MMO is dying there are no programmers left.
ProxyPhox
All npcs band together and attack the players, a week before this they short change you in shop transactions and upgrades and put on gear.
samtherat6
Or have the employees manually give them responses.
nyaore
I mean they kinda did that with the original FFXIV? They made the lead up to the shut down part of the story. In this link I'm posting, (1/)
lightningboltkid1
They also flooded the noncombat cities with Mobs of monsters and essentially threw parties watching Bahumat get closer. (I play ARR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsbjLZA6nCk <-- Video in case anyone is curious. This was towards the end of 1.0.
Yep! I joined in 2.4 but watching the videos people took of the end of 1.0 was magical. (Nice to see a fellow FFXIV player!)
go to the 5 minute mark. They made an entire cinematic for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEg8kXmifo (2/2)
Anarric
So this made it look like the player characters were ported to the next FF game then? Or was it just a pure wipe and shutdown with a sendoff
LiquidMilk
They were relaunching the game, so the current world ended while all essential characters got ported to the relaunch :)
That is totally the best way to do it..hats off to them https://media.giphy.com/media/D6WuLOKOpR2fK/giphy.gif
whitewater0034
Never played the game, but that made me choke up slightly!
ZaWithDude
FF is not at all my thing, but when someone isn't trying to shove it in my face, I can appreciate a good cinematic. Was good. 5/7
DogboneJim
●
Warune
Or one last event where the the world slowly disintegrates leading up to the capital cities. Or a meteor impact wave
PorcNoStar
Blizzard did that for the final end of the beta of World of Warcraft
WillTheFifth
They did that with FFXI when they did a massive overhaul. Asteroid in the sky getting closer and bigger until the server shutdown.
Dainslaif
FFXIV, not FFXI. They also canonically explained how the world didn't really end when it relaunched.
Oldmemedigger
You mean FFxiv..
FillerNameToFillTheBox
"Or a meteor impact wave" You literally just described when they killed the original FF14. Look up "End of an Era"
Never played so dis not know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j5v8jlndM The End of an Era cutscene created for when they took the servers down
rusrsdude
This gave me so much more respect to SE, i played A Realm Reborn and did not regret it one bit. Amazing game, truly.
Worgenmaster
Lets not, I can just imagine that happening with wow and I've been playing that since I was 10 with my father. That would break me.
MagnorCriol
Isn't that basically what the Cataclysm was?
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Nothing to worry about, at least until Blizz comes up with another game that makes them at least as much money each month.
sugarcannolifudgeilisticzabigliodoughnculous
WoW Beta ended with the invasion of the Legion, endless Dreadlord and Infernal spawns in the capitals and generally all around.
MouthSpiders
Haha one of my favorite events was the WotLK event, with the zombies and the plague. That was fun
KanyeWesticularCancer
I can’t remember the name, but there’s a book with a similar idea where people play a mmo that’s actually a real world somewhere else
FirstAidPoetry
NPCs, perhaps?
Oh yeah I think I've read it; it was one of the Berenstein Bears books, right?
drwert
Heroes Die by Matt Stover. Good book. I keep meaning to pick up the sequels but I never quite got round to it.
Epic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_(Kostick_novel)
StonesOnTheHill
"Mogworld" is a little like that.
No not quite but close. It’s sort of dystopian. Everyone plays the game and you get taken away if you lose a tournament.
CapitalistFrog
Epic?
Yeah I think that’s it.
ignimbrite
If and when FFXIV dies, there will be a storm of /mdance so strong that a calamity the likes of Dalamud would happen.
ToksanAlpha
The way 1.0 got shut down was amazingly cinematic.
PlesiosaurWithElementsOfAnIdeaOfTheLochNessMonsterBoy
I love the fact that 1.0 is totally incorporated into the games lore, it's such a great game story wise.
leonbloodbane
Like when it was destroyed the first time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEg8kXmifo We can only hope so.
I hope that's not for a long time yet. I just started with 4.0 and I'm loving it.
Put it this way: FFXI came out in 2002, 2 years BEFORE WoW, and only stopped receiving story updates in 2015.
TheGrayLanternsApathy
Now I'm thinking about City of Heroes, and I'm sad.
BossCedar
ME too, buddy, me too.
junked
@guysamusmontag at Virtue, rode the end out on the beta server .... at the steps of Atlas...
MonsoonGibby
We're coming up on the 5th anniversary of the shutdown. NCSoft can eat all the dicks.
I still have one of my boxes for it. I wish there would be a new game like it. Don’t even mention Champions.
PandraPierva
I didn't mind champions myself, but that was when it was F2P. CoH was pretty awesome
PSfanatic
Still have my city of villains box kicking around. Made me sad when I found it and remembered I couldn't play.
I hear you. Put mine in storage after the last move. Have a collage screenshot of my last characters though!
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
Well buddy, have I got some optimistic news for you! https://cityoftitans.com/ Still in production, and likely a ways off, but there's hope.
VivTheKitsune
skarnlonewolf
Its not the devs that killed CoH. It's NCSoft. Devs were still working on it, the game was slightly profitable. The community was strong.
itsybitsyspider
Sounds kind of like what happened to Champions. It got gutted and just kinda sputtered.
I miss my hero. The Blue Scotsman will forever live in my heart.
dakotaraptor
I still think about it every day.
CrazedDrifter
Right there with you brother. Justice server. Username relevant.
Berethian
Ultima Online. City of Heroes. World of Warcraft. Everquest II. And others. Not all are dead, but the... heart... is lost.
Iliekbirbs
I play on a free server on Ultima Online. Wanted to come back but not to what UO is now. I miss COH a lot.
Mooboy2000
I still play Everquest, been there since the Luclin expansion, always go back every little bit. it's my first mmo home.
For sure it's still around, but the heart of it is gone. Some with WoW. Millions of players, but no heart.
That's actually why I've been playing FFXIV:ARR, love final fantasy anyway, and depending on the server the community is awesome and helpful
I miss the early days of MMOs, where you had solid communities and people invested in the game. WoW killed that, sadly.
I had trouble finding a good community with FFXIV:ARR - the people I'd bonded with in FFXIV were no longer playing in ARR.
AheagoAmigo
That game died so tragically. Devs being bitter towards one another and everything going downhill fast. I miss Paragon City.
RydWolf
What about the developers? Last I heard NCSoft just came into the office while they were working on the next patch and said to shut it down.
One of the things I heard was "Statesman" and "Positron" had a falling out over the game going F2P and including in game micro-transactions
Then one of them got pissy, left the company and went to found their own and make the Champions Online mmo
It was 4-5 years between Jack Emmert leaving to do Champions Online and NCSoft shutting down Paragon Studios. Game went f2p in 2011.
ThatTransformersDude
It was a fun game, even with the hundreds of DBZ looking players
Counterfit
I'm a little disappointed that I never got to play it, and I found out too late that Paragon City was in Rhode Island
TheBigBadBosh
And then Overlord happens
FlameLeviathan
I didnt really like that show. The first 4 episodes were boring, imo.
Momonga-sama!
TheMovieGalaxyQuest
Time to read the new volume...
thegreatalan
it was great!!
LordAlfrey
KOTAE WA DOKO EIIIEEEIIIEE, SAGASHITEIIIEEEIIIEE, WHERE'S MY SOUL (guitar part)
Mercenarity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwFDH3M57g
mercilesscockhammer
. Leaving this here
Lazaque
Haven't seen this yet. Menu joke was fantastic
jherazob
Oh, very nice! this pleases me :D
I've seen that way too many times to count haha
RapturedSoul
Shit, season 2 comes out this January. So I've heard
TharrickLawson
Fuck yeah :D
RevanTheJedi
Ding ding, hype train is leaving the station, hop in everybody
BritishBatman
WHAT?! Fuck Yeah!
SaintMaceToTheFace
XD pls
PleaseLeave
I heard it comes out in winter 2018
tzxAzrael
yeak, "winter '18" is jan/feb/march-ish. Jp TV describes it this way. US tv is the same; "fall" and "winter" of the 2017-2018 tv schedule.
and then come september, it's the fall/winter of the 2018-2019 tv season.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
You, you stop that right now.
It's true though.
SevenEyesInDarkness
You mean, this overlord?
"FOR DE OVAHLOURD!" - Gobbos, definitely
Onlyhereforthelaughs
He was my first thought too...
dinoman9877
I'd much rather have this Overlord than the one the comment was referring to.
neoritter
Nooo this overlord.... http://i2.wp.com/haruhichan.com/wpblog/wp-content/uploads/Overlord-tv-anime-visual.jpg
SaikyoStyle
Is it good? What genre is it?
mokzin
it's called isekai. Where someone goes to another world. Overlord is pretty good.
Its just alright. Its a MMO power fantasy
Objectively, it's alright. Subjectively, it's funny as an MMO gamer.
Genre, ANN has it as action, fantasy, sci-fi. It's basically another protag transported to another world anime; game world is alt fad though
So think, Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, Grimgar, etc.
gamblingpoet
So...this guy fell in love with a shopkeeper NPC?
OverpricedCrayon
Sounds like a WoW player to me.
Talori
It's clearly Zaboo
TKBarbus
derschweiz
Nobody married Ysolda? Just me? Huh...
gellynods
Westworld style.
dellafiamma
I was hoping someone commented that
DiceyBusiness
I just wanna know how this game is dying when the shopkeeper NPCs are as fleshed out as they are.
https://youtu.be/qAIrj_Vqdfc?t=32s
jsnforce
Right? This must be some SAO level shit where mkst games are at least this deep.
imguraptor64
This guy asking the real questions
Well, she was pretty well fleshed out. Thought she was actually alive too.
abc987
*Boten Anna plays on background*
wangtangle
chrisdafish
Yeah who does that *the female dark elf at the college of winterhold*
Amen
Mimsey
Did you mean the orc warrior maiden at Mor Khazgur? Borgakh the Steel Heart was bae.
ShazoomOV
Brelyna Maryon?
lucythefur
Yee, wifed her then she disappeared after some bandits attacked our house
Also Serana
She is Bae
causality
I married her.
Same
hamberglar
You can do that? You can just betray Lydia's undying love for you? You monster.
OGsatan
Nah Lydia gets to sit in my house in whiterun while my wife and I live in a house in the middle of nowhere
cutiepatoodiepumpkinbooty
I have no need for a wife who obstructs doorways
Englishisnotmyfirstlanguage
Lydia dies too muuch keeping her alive makes me lose so much time lol
We’ve all got one
ActuallyThatsWrong
fak, can't think of one...
You're bound to have one, just think of your favorite games, then think of your favorite NPCs from those games. We've all got favorites.
Triss is my object of desire, but she's not a shopkeeper :/
But she is an NPC! We don't all adore merchants, but there's always that one NPC we love more than others.
DAREALWARBOSS
Ysolda....
Brigadiertime
Illaoi League of Legends
Miranda Lawson. Fuck the reapers, fuck the galaxy, if I had my way she and Shep would have run to the ass end of the galaxy.
manslut
Ulfberth War-Bear.
HowImetyourmumma
Elizabeth
SCHDPRIME
amanda holliday
LuLuPennyAndOdium44
her world hasnt ended.... yet.
ThanksToDenialImImmortal
Moira brown, fallout 3.
SergeantMajorSpoiler
Sarah Weintraub
JungleSinged
Old man dog- League of legends.
kojenk
Numerous ones in WoW, a good number of them died in the Cataclysm. The Nightelf lady at the dock in the white/silver outfit :\
LazyJones1
Camp Taurajo Flight Master. - Filthy alliance.
shiftingillusion
Admiral Taylor :'(
i always /saluted his spirit in my Garrison
Ryukaa
Gamon.
Psychomma
Mankirk, killing those Quilboars. Never Forget.
His poor poor Wife....
PTMdragon
TiGRIOSindustriesRnD
Dammit, Lydia.
Juggernaughtty
At least she's sworn to carry your burdens.
Stolf
The burden is my panus
drksdrlife
The Herbalist with the onion butt in Witcher 3.
PickingTheHiddenNeutralAnswer
Tomira.
JasonForge
Dragon Age, Lelianna.
Ulgoroth
Yeah, was disapointed because there wasn't romance with her
tullerusk
There is, but only lesbian romance
That's weird I had female human charecter flirting with her all the time and doing quest for her and nothing maybe you mistook her for Sera
epsilonmonkey
That hurts
nanamonster
PervertedWizard
fuck why am i crying ...
enderlord2
This is why sentient simulators are a terrible idea
DoktorLurker
And her pixels were reused in Minecraft. Reborn in a body not her own, angular & sharp, stiff & unforgiving. Her soul wept at the indignity.
SHiNiXiA
In lieu of this post, I recommend reading the following manga: The Gamer, Overlord, and The Legendary Moonlight Sculpture.
MisterBrent
When a comic hits the feels...
MiLK42
i love all the stuff on the shelves. hellraiser cube. hellboy glove. indy's 3 stones from temple of doom. probably more.
armorhide406
Free Guy, amongst other things. Oh and fuck games shutting down with no end of life plan
Felcatinvoid
somehow reminded of Log Horizon, where npc's are not just scripted but AI
Mournclaw
I don't remember why, but I stopped midway the second season... The first one was pure awesomeness, tho
Mournclaw
That's one well-equipped shop in the first panel... They even have a plumbus in there!
Mournclaw
Oh gods it's so full of awesome stuff *gasp* is that the never-ending story!?
Columcille
13th floor
doc776
- a short romance from Nostalrius's final minute.
ellert0
temporarilyhuman
Would make me more sentimental if the "lords'" actual names weren't "capslock17" and "bebekillr".
ReallyGoodBee
I went through a joke characters phase in WoW. "Help us, Mancopter! You're our only hope!".
SaltheartFoamfollower
There was that one user named Flynn, but he took it a little too far.
wildsoapbox
Speaking of which, when is Westworld Season 2?
Overdaline
Sometime in Spring 2018 is the last I've heard
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
That is one humdinger of a story there, partner. Shall we drink to the lady in the white shoes?
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
That is some really fucking neat AI.
eldonq
I'm damn-near ashamed of how many things I recognized in that first panel...
GendouLovesDucklings
Marvel Heroes players today.
melancholypanda
If you like this, check out Thursday Next. Great books about what happens to the characters in novels when no-one's reading. Gets real meta.
ReallyGoodBee
I once had a nightmare about a story I never finished. The characters were stuck in this endless loop without conclusion and it scared them.
jeejeejerrycotton
This would be much better if instead of "Lord Walker" it began with "Lord -=#W33dd00d420#=-[RUS], wonderful to have you back."
IRateYourChristmasSelfies
Does it count as a death if you simply cease to be? Would you be more, or less angry if this was your fate?
Maraak
Buddy that is what death *is*, as far as we can tell. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something or decide not to face it.
InexplicablyAvailableUsername
I believe my death will essentially be me ceasing to be. I'm okay with that.
pibalo
Interedtkng responses here. I think death and "ceasing to be" are very different. Death involves the act of dying. (1/)
pibalo
After your brain and thoughts and self end, your body decomposes and you remain in the memories of others. Death and ceasing to be are (2/)
pibalo
very different things (3/3)
InexplicablyAvailableUsername
You can die without the idea of you dieing.
howaboutthisonethen
Think the question you're looking for is "What happens when you die"
TheType95
Dying is basically just a living system being rendered non-functional, I feel it makes no difference whether a piece of metal has been /
TheType95
fired through your cranium, intersecting with and disrupting your brainstem, or half your body is teleported away, or the Universe you are /
TheType95
occupying has been disrupted sufficiently to destroy you. If your body/mind is represented by a configuration in a memory storage medium, /
TheType95
disrupting that medium is the cause and reason of your death. Plain and simple.
fellowimgurean
I used to play Runescape and this hit home. It never ended but it did in a way when they started making it like WOW and when I moved on.
XplodeOman
I miss playing Old School Runescape but my acc got permabanned for something i didn’t do with no chance of getting it back :/
ionlyhaveonetesticle
Old school runescape is till a thing
lolzomg123
I hear they keep updating Old School Runescape too.... Updating it!
greenking13
It's pretty fun, they are still adding quests and new zones, but with the OSRS feel to them.
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marionic
The user was talking about their own experience. They never said it was the first.
KEVlN
I hated evolution of combat. I almost had completionist cape, now I don't car too much for it.
Munnin41
Old school runescape my friend
Goldenteckel
itrymybesttooffendsomeone
FUCK YOU FOR MAKING ME FEEL MORE
Teevo83
You're mean. :(
JoeTheMadScientist
goldengaia
I was hoping this was here
SweetSweetMemes
..... But bowties are cool
IFriggenLoveBears
MeanWinchester
How dare you remind me of one of the top five saddest moments of my life! ????????
Goldenteckel
Years have passed, yet we still miss D. Tennant...
InqSerena
MrA007
I came here to laugh not to feel but good god my heart
SoftcoreFavorites
What the fuck dude.. that's like posting "Where do You think we are?"
Nathanyel
Fuck, that line alone almost got me sobbing.
Goldenteckel
You're right : that Scrubs moment is also in the top 3, along with Fry's dog Futurama ending (I don't post its gif to spare your feelings).
itrymybesttooffendsomeone
Futurama ending Dr.who Tennant gif scrubs gif and birth
AnActualAustralian
Ed...ward
DetectiveSherlockHolmes
Fuck you...
DaedelusMuse
Fun fact: Allons-y means "Let's go"
chrisat928
When an MMO is dying they should program random NPCs to know it and they start freaking out.
MrBrains
When Planetside 1 was about to end, the dev's integrated an apocalyptic meteorstorm which killed everyone. Epic way to end a game.
MrBrains
https://youtu.be/tOi-vlzRHEw
PikaChunin
(Source: Wronchi Animation - MORGL v TYRANDE)
UnluckyScarecrow
When FFXIV launched it was terrible, so before it rebooted they put a meteor into the game world and it canonically destroyed everything
UnluckyScarecrow
For some time before the servers closed, the meteor hung in the sky of the game world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XU1x2WNmpU
birthdaybaboon
Just wait for real-time brain simulated AI
BH5432
What they should do is bring out a last patch that makes the game playable as a single player.
MikroStalja
When an MMO is dying there are no programmers left.
ProxyPhox
All npcs band together and attack the players, a week before this they short change you in shop transactions and upgrades and put on gear.
samtherat6
Or have the employees manually give them responses.
nyaore
I mean they kinda did that with the original FFXIV? They made the lead up to the shut down part of the story. In this link I'm posting, (1/)
lightningboltkid1
They also flooded the noncombat cities with Mobs of monsters and essentially threw parties watching Bahumat get closer. (I play ARR)
nyaore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsbjLZA6nCk <-- Video in case anyone is curious. This was towards the end of 1.0.
nyaore
Yep! I joined in 2.4 but watching the videos people took of the end of 1.0 was magical. (Nice to see a fellow FFXIV player!)
nyaore
go to the 5 minute mark. They made an entire cinematic for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEg8kXmifo (2/2)
Anarric
So this made it look like the player characters were ported to the next FF game then? Or was it just a pure wipe and shutdown with a sendoff
LiquidMilk
They were relaunching the game, so the current world ended while all essential characters got ported to the relaunch :)
Anarric
That is totally the best way to do it..hats off to them https://media.giphy.com/media/D6WuLOKOpR2fK/giphy.gif
whitewater0034
Never played the game, but that made me choke up slightly!
ZaWithDude
FF is not at all my thing, but when someone isn't trying to shove it in my face, I can appreciate a good cinematic. Was good. 5/7
DogboneJim
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Warune
Or one last event where the the world slowly disintegrates leading up to the capital cities. Or a meteor impact wave
PorcNoStar
Blizzard did that for the final end of the beta of World of Warcraft
WillTheFifth
They did that with FFXI when they did a massive overhaul. Asteroid in the sky getting closer and bigger until the server shutdown.
Dainslaif
FFXIV, not FFXI. They also canonically explained how the world didn't really end when it relaunched.
Oldmemedigger
You mean FFxiv..
FillerNameToFillTheBox
"Or a meteor impact wave" You literally just described when they killed the original FF14. Look up "End of an Era"
Warune
Never played so dis not know
FillerNameToFillTheBox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j5v8jlndM The End of an Era cutscene created for when they took the servers down
rusrsdude
This gave me so much more respect to SE, i played A Realm Reborn and did not regret it one bit. Amazing game, truly.
Worgenmaster
Lets not, I can just imagine that happening with wow and I've been playing that since I was 10 with my father. That would break me.
MagnorCriol
Isn't that basically what the Cataclysm was?
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Nothing to worry about, at least until Blizz comes up with another game that makes them at least as much money each month.
sugarcannolifudgeilisticzabigliodoughnculous
WoW Beta ended with the invasion of the Legion, endless Dreadlord and Infernal spawns in the capitals and generally all around.
MouthSpiders
Haha one of my favorite events was the WotLK event, with the zombies and the plague. That was fun
KanyeWesticularCancer
I can’t remember the name, but there’s a book with a similar idea where people play a mmo that’s actually a real world somewhere else
FirstAidPoetry
NPCs, perhaps?
jeejeejerrycotton
Oh yeah I think I've read it; it was one of the Berenstein Bears books, right?
drwert
Heroes Die by Matt Stover. Good book. I keep meaning to pick up the sequels but I never quite got round to it.
DaedelusMuse
Epic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_(Kostick_novel)
StonesOnTheHill
"Mogworld" is a little like that.
KanyeWesticularCancer
No not quite but close. It’s sort of dystopian. Everyone plays the game and you get taken away if you lose a tournament.
CapitalistFrog
Epic?
KanyeWesticularCancer
Yeah I think that’s it.
ignimbrite
If and when FFXIV dies, there will be a storm of /mdance so strong that a calamity the likes of Dalamud would happen.
ToksanAlpha
The way 1.0 got shut down was amazingly cinematic.
PlesiosaurWithElementsOfAnIdeaOfTheLochNessMonsterBoy
I love the fact that 1.0 is totally incorporated into the games lore, it's such a great game story wise.
leonbloodbane
Like when it was destroyed the first time?
nyaore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEg8kXmifo We can only hope so.
Teevo83
I hope that's not for a long time yet. I just started with 4.0 and I'm loving it.
ignimbrite
Put it this way: FFXI came out in 2002, 2 years BEFORE WoW, and only stopped receiving story updates in 2015.
TheGrayLanternsApathy
Now I'm thinking about City of Heroes, and I'm sad.
BossCedar
ME too, buddy, me too.
junked
@guysamusmontag at Virtue, rode the end out on the beta server .... at the steps of Atlas...
MonsoonGibby
We're coming up on the 5th anniversary of the shutdown. NCSoft can eat all the dicks.
FirstAidPoetry
I still have one of my boxes for it. I wish there would be a new game like it. Don’t even mention Champions.
PandraPierva
I didn't mind champions myself, but that was when it was F2P. CoH was pretty awesome
PSfanatic
Still have my city of villains box kicking around. Made me sad when I found it and remembered I couldn't play.
FirstAidPoetry
I hear you. Put mine in storage after the last move. Have a collage screenshot of my last characters though!
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
Well buddy, have I got some optimistic news for you! https://cityoftitans.com/ Still in production, and likely a ways off, but there's hope.
VivTheKitsune
skarnlonewolf
Its not the devs that killed CoH. It's NCSoft. Devs were still working on it, the game was slightly profitable. The community was strong.
itsybitsyspider
Sounds kind of like what happened to Champions. It got gutted and just kinda sputtered.
Teevo83
I miss my hero. The Blue Scotsman will forever live in my heart.
dakotaraptor
I still think about it every day.
CrazedDrifter
Right there with you brother. Justice server. Username relevant.
Berethian
Ultima Online. City of Heroes. World of Warcraft. Everquest II. And others. Not all are dead, but the... heart... is lost.
Iliekbirbs
I play on a free server on Ultima Online. Wanted to come back but not to what UO is now. I miss COH a lot.
Mooboy2000
I still play Everquest, been there since the Luclin expansion, always go back every little bit. it's my first mmo home.
Berethian
For sure it's still around, but the heart of it is gone. Some with WoW. Millions of players, but no heart.
Mooboy2000
That's actually why I've been playing FFXIV:ARR, love final fantasy anyway, and depending on the server the community is awesome and helpful
Berethian
I miss the early days of MMOs, where you had solid communities and people invested in the game. WoW killed that, sadly.
Berethian
I had trouble finding a good community with FFXIV:ARR - the people I'd bonded with in FFXIV were no longer playing in ARR.
AheagoAmigo
That game died so tragically. Devs being bitter towards one another and everything going downhill fast. I miss Paragon City.
RydWolf
What about the developers? Last I heard NCSoft just came into the office while they were working on the next patch and said to shut it down.
AheagoAmigo
One of the things I heard was "Statesman" and "Positron" had a falling out over the game going F2P and including in game micro-transactions
AheagoAmigo
Then one of them got pissy, left the company and went to found their own and make the Champions Online mmo
RydWolf
It was 4-5 years between Jack Emmert leaving to do Champions Online and NCSoft shutting down Paragon Studios. Game went f2p in 2011.
ThatTransformersDude
It was a fun game, even with the hundreds of DBZ looking players
Counterfit
I'm a little disappointed that I never got to play it, and I found out too late that Paragon City was in Rhode Island
TheBigBadBosh
And then Overlord happens
FlameLeviathan
I didnt really like that show. The first 4 episodes were boring, imo.
SHiNiXiA
Momonga-sama!
TheMovieGalaxyQuest
Time to read the new volume...
thegreatalan
it was great!!
LordAlfrey
KOTAE WA DOKO EIIIEEEIIIEE, SAGASHITEIIIEEEIIIEE, WHERE'S MY SOUL (guitar part)
Mercenarity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwFDH3M57g
mercilesscockhammer
. Leaving this here
Lazaque
Haven't seen this yet. Menu joke was fantastic
jherazob
Oh, very nice! this pleases me :D
TheBigBadBosh
I've seen that way too many times to count haha
RapturedSoul
Shit, season 2 comes out this January. So I've heard
TharrickLawson
Fuck yeah :D
RevanTheJedi
Ding ding, hype train is leaving the station, hop in everybody
BritishBatman
WHAT?! Fuck Yeah!
SaintMaceToTheFace
XD pls
PleaseLeave
I heard it comes out in winter 2018
tzxAzrael
yeak, "winter '18" is jan/feb/march-ish. Jp TV describes it this way. US tv is the same; "fall" and "winter" of the 2017-2018 tv schedule.
tzxAzrael
and then come september, it's the fall/winter of the 2018-2019 tv season.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
You, you stop that right now.
Oldmemedigger
It's true though.
SevenEyesInDarkness
You mean, this overlord?
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
"FOR DE OVAHLOURD!" - Gobbos, definitely
Onlyhereforthelaughs
He was my first thought too...
dinoman9877
I'd much rather have this Overlord than the one the comment was referring to.
neoritter
Nooo this overlord.... http://i2.wp.com/haruhichan.com/wpblog/wp-content/uploads/Overlord-tv-anime-visual.jpg
SaikyoStyle
Is it good? What genre is it?
mokzin
it's called isekai. Where someone goes to another world. Overlord is pretty good.
PandraPierva
Its just alright. Its a MMO power fantasy
neoritter
Objectively, it's alright. Subjectively, it's funny as an MMO gamer.
neoritter
Genre, ANN has it as action, fantasy, sci-fi. It's basically another protag transported to another world anime; game world is alt fad though
neoritter
So think, Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, Grimgar, etc.
gamblingpoet
So...this guy fell in love with a shopkeeper NPC?
OverpricedCrayon
Sounds like a WoW player to me.
Talori
It's clearly Zaboo
TKBarbus
derschweiz
Nobody married Ysolda? Just me? Huh...
gellynods
Westworld style.
dellafiamma
I was hoping someone commented that
DiceyBusiness
neoritter
I just wanna know how this game is dying when the shopkeeper NPCs are as fleshed out as they are.
DiceyBusiness
https://youtu.be/qAIrj_Vqdfc?t=32s
jsnforce
Right? This must be some SAO level shit where mkst games are at least this deep.
imguraptor64
This guy asking the real questions
jsnforce
Well, she was pretty well fleshed out. Thought she was actually alive too.
abc987
*Boten Anna plays on background*
wangtangle
chrisdafish
Yeah who does that *the female dark elf at the college of winterhold*
SaintMaceToTheFace
Amen
Mimsey
Did you mean the orc warrior maiden at Mor Khazgur? Borgakh the Steel Heart was bae.
ShazoomOV
Brelyna Maryon?
lucythefur
Yee, wifed her then she disappeared after some bandits attacked our house
chrisdafish
Also Serana
SaintMaceToTheFace
She is Bae
causality
I married her.
chrisdafish
Same
hamberglar
You can do that? You can just betray Lydia's undying love for you? You monster.
OGsatan
Nah Lydia gets to sit in my house in whiterun while my wife and I live in a house in the middle of nowhere
cutiepatoodiepumpkinbooty
I have no need for a wife who obstructs doorways
Englishisnotmyfirstlanguage
Lydia dies too muuch keeping her alive makes me lose so much time lol
leonbloodbane
We’ve all got one
ActuallyThatsWrong
fak, can't think of one...
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
You're bound to have one, just think of your favorite games, then think of your favorite NPCs from those games. We've all got favorites.
ActuallyThatsWrong
Triss is my object of desire, but she's not a shopkeeper :/
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
But she is an NPC! We don't all adore merchants, but there's always that one NPC we love more than others.
DAREALWARBOSS
Ysolda....
Brigadiertime
Illaoi League of Legends
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
Miranda Lawson. Fuck the reapers, fuck the galaxy, if I had my way she and Shep would have run to the ass end of the galaxy.
manslut
Ulfberth War-Bear.
HowImetyourmumma
Elizabeth
SCHDPRIME
amanda holliday
LuLuPennyAndOdium44
her world hasnt ended.... yet.
ThanksToDenialImImmortal
Moira brown, fallout 3.
SergeantMajorSpoiler
Sarah Weintraub
JungleSinged
Old man dog- League of legends.
kojenk
Numerous ones in WoW, a good number of them died in the Cataclysm. The Nightelf lady at the dock in the white/silver outfit :\
LazyJones1
Camp Taurajo Flight Master. - Filthy alliance.
shiftingillusion
Admiral Taylor :'(
kojenk
i always /saluted his spirit in my Garrison
Ryukaa
Gamon.
Psychomma
Mankirk, killing those Quilboars. Never Forget.
Ryukaa
His poor poor Wife....
PTMdragon
TiGRIOSindustriesRnD
Dammit, Lydia.
Juggernaughtty
At least she's sworn to carry your burdens.
Stolf
The burden is my panus
drksdrlife
The Herbalist with the onion butt in Witcher 3.
PickingTheHiddenNeutralAnswer
Tomira.
JasonForge
Dragon Age, Lelianna.
Ulgoroth
Yeah, was disapointed because there wasn't romance with her
tullerusk
There is, but only lesbian romance
Ulgoroth
That's weird I had female human charecter flirting with her all the time and doing quest for her and nothing maybe you mistook her for Sera