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Auto Assault Goes Sunset Tonight
Mytob writes "Today is the last day of service for NCSoft / Net Devil's Auto Assault. The game, which has never proved that popular, will have its service terminated at midnight central time. Refund emails have already been sent out, and end-of game events have been happening since last week. From the Auto Assault Website: 'We are now in the final week of Auto Assault and to mark this occasion on Friday night we'll be doing all sorts of nutty things in-game — whatever you request, we'll try to make happen. Most of the fun will be in and around Ground Zero (don't worry if you don't have a high-level character, we'll boost you), but we'll be doing other stuff all around the game. We plan on starting around 9PM CDT (if not before) and should last right to midnight when the servers are shut down for the final time.'"
There will be just two. The last player and last GM in the game when they pull the plug. They will have been the only two people in game for the last 2 years the game is running. The developers actually planned on taking it down December 2010, but the GM was the big boss's nephew. To keep him going they kept one player in the game with the final expansion released in January of 2011 raising the level cap to 400. The next two years the one player spent grinding 35 characters on 7 different realms to the level cap. Got half of them into wormhole riding mounts. And was just about to finish soloing She-ra (level 300 raiding boss) when the plug was pulled. Thankfully, they will only really have committed suicide in-game. It will take them nearly three weeks to realize this, however. The player will finally figure it out when his 90yo mom breaks down the basement door because the smell has gotten into the kitchen again. The GM will figure it out when the Blizzard janitor turns on the lights to mop up the urine stain the GM left when he thought it was all over.