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Shout out to everyone that used to play Runescape Classic, Starwars Galaxies and even Club Penguin. I'll miss the online friends I made back then. To where ever you are now.
rivenmyr
Watching videos of players gathered as Dalamud fell as the FFXIV 1.0 servers ended made me sad. But now the game is great at least
OrdinarilyBob
I haven't played many MMOs, but my first was Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom, and I was there the night that went offline. That was rough.
Precastbubbles
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Yahtzee Croshaw's "Mogworld" yet. An interesting take on AI in video games.
Ryanator50
proof that you can make a compelling virtual world story without having the "If you die in the game you die IRL" BS.
CapnAndy
Or, Why Turing-Capable AIs in an MMO Would Be an Ethical Nightmare
HitandRyan
Ross Scott has tried to raise awareness of publishers killing games. Worth a look I'd say.
iluvdis
This reminded me of that heart fixer comic. Haven't seen that one in ages either
ashesnghost
Wild star, man. If only wildstar had come out a year or two ago, instead of 2014
OnlyZileanNA
I still miss it!
Velisity
Everquest and Everquest 2 are still running and making expansion add ons
LefthandedLink
https://youtu.be/wBzqOa9y02I
NaughtButOne
Wisperer
My first PC Ran ME. I was too young to really know it was bad. Had a blast playing the few games i had on it.
PixelSprite64
Making the transition to a new mmo
Asadsadsadclown
The fact the BE has to be edited in SFM vs the Mikote have base emotes to get by kinda says it all.
Thranx
SWG dies long before they shut the servers down. RIP you gem of a game.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
Yep. People wandered off to DAoC, EQ2 and WoW. I just couldn't get into a grind game after the NGE killed the greatest sandbox MMO ever.
PolarHailStorm
Maybe when you close your eyes for the last time in this world, friend, you'll wake up in the Inn room in Eorzea.
Arkonnos
I can remember the end of Planetside 1. Such glorious sadness
TheVerrucktMan
At least with Planetside, the sequel was already up when they shut down the servers. Maybe not quite the same, but better than nothing.
xizar
This is how Overlord starts.
TarrkertheNewt
I feel that. I've left a few worlds behind in my day too. Like the ones my friends and I made while playing D&D every summer.
OrangeFlavours
I love this artist. They've done stuff like the heart smith too.
GoldenLarsen
Frame 1, If you can accurately name it you can have it, also, what in that shop WOULDNT you want?... GO!
ghsdkgb
Relevant SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-best-day-ever
DekoWolf
Fuck. This was deep
qtRaven
I miss Guild Wars.
theduckening
GW1 was amazing. Wish I could go back to finish some of the expansions I never had the time to.
TrueShoba
The GW Defs stated they can let the GW1 servers run indefinitely since they need little to no resources (compared to a modern mmo).
saintbrun
It's still there. There is still an active, albeit small community that still plays it.
Blake242
Source (as I can't see it in comments) https://imgur.com/user/Midnightradiocomics
bogitt
Thank you :)
StamosatmyFuneral
I am 100% convinced that someone read this, loved it, and wrote Free Guy.
Endocrom
So Mogworld?
Lumpyguy
I'm pretty sure if NPCs had agency and awareness like that this would count as murder. Like goddamn, that's a real person.
Asadsadsadclown
Sure by today’s standards, but if you were raised in a time where you toaster had that awareness would it be more than a toaster to you?
Aathole
This artists stuff is hella deep. And mostly very disturbing. While I suggest it. Read at own risk.
NacLac
Good deep or concealing flaws by trying to be deep?
LordNergal
Good deep.
KsuviKhor
Fantastic deep. I own a printed copy of their works and I cherish it as equal to my C&H hardback collection.
Aathole
The shame at the end of wicked man always gets me.
DaftSkunk
That’s high praise…
KsuviKhor
Here are more of their works: https://imgur.com/user/Midnightradiocomics
icookfoodandfightfire
ohhhh where did you get it??
KsuviKhor
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onthemark/midnight-radio-comics-by-ehud-lavski-and-yael-nath/description
DickMercenary
I miss the early days of EQ2. Was my first MMO.. somehow managed to make friends in it.. got into a great guild.. then they drifted away..
Akseptance
I played on Befallen for a long time. All the way through Velious. It was a beautiful game for a long time imho before it became what it is.
DickMercenary
Antonia Bayle. Wasn't an RPer but they were friendly. Played a Dark Elf paladin named "Darkly" cause I was like.. 13. 1/
DickMercenary
Guild I was in was led by Scott Adams (old school video game dev... not the Dilbert douchebag) he was known as the "Hydra" on the server 2/
DickMercenary
He'd play 4 characters at once. If ya ever asked for help he would always be willing to bring his merry band. 3/
emptyother
Warched Free Guy recently. Same-ish plot.
mutedia
I've yet to finish the movie, I feel like they picked the wrong main character.
andrewrankin1087360
I was thinking the same
LoudAngryJerk
This basically is the plot, but less (a lot less) serious
AtmaDarkwolf
*knowing Ryan Reynolds was inspired by. I am betting he played, or knows someone close who has played, a now dead virtual universe.
researchonyourown
Long shot but I watched a anime probably 10-15 years ago were in the last episode they all cried because they knew they would no longer
researchonyourown
Exist the moment the last episode stopped. I think they were teenage girls but honestly only remember them begging to keep living.
superkavi
Do you remember the name of the anime?
HoneNathan
Jesus Fucking Christ! Series endings are hard enough without them piling that shit on me! WTF are you trying to do to me writers?!!
NecroNikolai13
Right? I started tearing up at Gravity Falls, fuck i don't want to watch that show he's talking about!
HoneNathan
Yeah, God! Can you imagine?
EverNotRelevant
Iain Banks touched on this in his Culture novels: there's a point at which simulations become so real that shutting them down...
Hoarderofsecrets
I don't remember this. Which book?
EverNotRelevant
Hydrogen Sonata, I think, but Surface Detail also talks about simulations (albeit from a different angle)
Lieto
Hey I have it in my bookshelf but haven't read it yet! Thanks for the reminder, some Banks will surely be good fit with my depression - oh..
EverNotRelevant
Becomes equivalent to murder. And so the AIs that host them are obligated to continue them indefinitely.
tavinjer
Ted Chiang has a similar one in his short story collection Exhalation called The Lifecycle of Software Objects about digital pets.
m4uboy
SUCH a fantastic book.
travisflagg61411
I imagine the most humane way would be to run simpler and simpler programs around the sentient ones until all the sentient ones die off natu
CapnAndy
But why would MMO NPCs have been programmed to age and die? And isn't going back and patching it in just to enable that just slow murder?
EverNotRelevant
Well, if they were designed to be human, then aging and death would be par for the course, but you're right, patching it...
EverNotRelevant
Would be a huge ethical question. Alternatively, assuming tech permits, embodiment in the real could be an option.
TresusIbor
Yeah but the Culture doesn't believe in aging and dying naturally. To them, immortality is just the standard.
MstrES
Isn't that prison then?
TresusIbor
More like a universe simulation.
Onlyhereforthelaughs
I suppose it's kind of a Garden of Eden type thing. Without players, the NPCs wouldn't know anything was wrong. But if they bite the apple..
LoudBirb
In the same way that Earth is a prison, I suppose. But, nevertheless, plenty of people manage to be happy on it.
Ryanator50
Ask Moriatry
sili
Funny enough, some species start using simulations to realize their cultural ideas of hell.
Asteriacites
That was so terrifying, mostly because I know of far too many people who would think that was a perfectly OK thing to set up.
EverNotRelevant
I suppose it depends on how much freedom the AI grants the agents, and whether they're aware of their simulated nature.
gilliamv
One of those Reddit/YouTube "humans are space orcs" stories was about our world being a simulation where humanity becomes the /
gilliamv
2/ virus. We realize our reality is a simulation and figure out how to break out of our sandbox, use the "god' " 3d printers to /
zechstyr
In this case they are literally simulating hell and a lot of people are trying to shut the Hells down.
EverNotRelevant
The instance I was thinking of was about predictive modeling.