{"id":389,"date":"2005-12-19T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T21:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/12\/the-end-of-the-world-as-they-know-it\/"},"modified":"2005-12-19T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T21:23:24","slug":"the-end-of-the-world-as-they-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/12\/the-end-of-the-world-as-they-know-it.html","title":{"rendered":"The end of the world as they know it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a slight taste of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/games\/0,2101,69848-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1\">this<\/a> in CoH, since CoV came on &#8212; especially in the weeks immediately afterwards, when Paragon felt like a freaking ghost town.  I mean &#8212; arriving at the Talos tram station, or the Steel Canyon Yellow Line, and having them <em>empty?<\/em>  Yeesh.  Things seem to have picked back up a bit, of late.  Mercifully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;Anybody out there?&#8221; I type, but I already know it&#8217;s pointless. There&#8217;s nobody anywhere near me. For almost an hour, I&#8217;ve been wandering around a desolate plain: Gray clouds scud slowly over rough quartz mountains, while a few birds wheel in the air near mushroom-shaped trees. I never see another living soul. It feels like the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>And in fact, it is. I&#8217;m inside Asheron&#8217;s Call 2, an online game that is scheduled to die in two weeks. It never acquired enough players to make it self-sufficient, so the game&#8217;s owner &#8212; Turbine &#8212; is going to do something that only happens rarely in the world of online play: On Dec. 30, it&#8217;ll flip the power off on the remaining servers, and an entire world will blink out of existence.<br \/>\nInteresting.  And disturbing.<br \/>\n<small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collisiondetection.net\/mt\/archives\/2005\/12\/_wired_news_jus.html\">Collision Detection<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a slight taste of this in CoH, since CoV came on &#8212; especially in the weeks immediately afterwards, when Paragon felt like a freaking ghost town. I mean &#8212; arriving at the Talos tram station, or the Steel Canyon Yellow Line, and having them empty? Yeesh. Things seem to have picked back up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/12\/the-end-of-the-world-as-they-know-it.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The end of the world as they know it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}