[fx1994]

That happened with WoW, mutated to something after it was bought by ... Activision... so that's why community made their own server. Thousand of players on Lights Hope these days, and now they want to release WoW classic to harvest more money but I think it will fail for good.

[Tecuane]

I've played WoW for something like 11 years, from its peak in around 2008-2010 and through its slow decline since. Logging in now and having the reality that this game is actually genuinely fading away is difficult for me to properly process. The gp comment mentioned how non-transient games such as Pokémon are, and how games that do actually fade away are a new thing. I hadn't really thought about this before until the last couple of WoW expansions and its effects on the playerbase.

It makes me really sad to think about; WoW (and video gaming in general) has been a huge part of my life and tinkering with video games under the hood was the kickstarter for my career. I don't know if I will ever find a replacement for it when it's gone.