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The Final Moments of Asheron's Call 2

Posted by Zonk on from the not-with-a-bang dept.

Via Kotaku, the final moments of Asheron's Call 2 in text and images. Highlights include the in-game appearance of a community moderator, and a killable version of a notorious dragon. Then, a lost connection. Gamespot has the story as well. From that article: "Turbine performed a little house cleaning this weekend as it shut down its massively multi-player online role-playing game Asheron's Call 2. Originally released in November of 2002, the fantasy game world met an unceremonious armageddon December 30. As of press time, the Asheron's Call 2 forums were still up for mourning players, and blow-by-blow accounts of the world of Dereth's final moments had started circulating the Web. "

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  1. Game box by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 2, Interesting
    So now that this is over, when will these players be getting back the $60 they forked over for the game initially? I mean, you purchase the game and pay the monthly fee, shouldn't there be some sort of guarantee that you can keep playing the game as long as you want?

    What's that? There isn't?

    I swear, there should be a law that if a MMORPG closes its servers, they open the source to the playerbase so people can create and host their own servers off of it.

    I'm so sick of paying for a game that may not exist in the future. Its the same reason why I'd never sign up for a subscription music service.

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    1. Re:Game box by Cecil · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, public domain is what it becomes. It's actually true that copyright law (used to) require that something become public domain after the copyright period has expired.

      Now, I agree it doesn't require anyone to release the source, unfortunately. But what it does do, is allow completely legal reverse engineering, emulation, and cloning. Trade secrets have never been a problem in the software world. bnetd never used any leaked source code, they simply sniffed the network traffic and figured out what it was doing. If copyright ever expired on the Battle.net protocol, then bnetd would be legal.

      Unfortunately, copyright can now be extended indefinitely, so this is all a moot point.

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  2. it woulda been nice.... by B3AST! · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ....if they went out better than that...something fun for the players, not so sappy

    they shoulda turned it all PvP, and each day for like a month they'd continuously add more mobs.....once you died, you're DEAD...no coming back.....no creating new chars. and then finally they'd come up with a final survivor and he'd win something

    like...a cake