This is absolutely terrible. No joke. People lost things they have been emotionally attached to for literal decades because some corpos couldn’t agree on a deal. Such bullshit.
Since 2006, I have played on both the Chinese and American servers, and this is a deeply emotional experience for me, bringing tears to my eyes. As one of the druids, I teleported back to Emerald and chose to fall asleep at the bottom of the lake before the shut down, where I will rest forever. Goodbye WOW.
That's heartbreaking. I shouldn't have watched this, and I can still play. I mean life is more important, but what a brutal fashion for it to be taken right out from under all the players. My heart hurts right now for you all.
Whenever I part ways with a game I bring my character to it's starting point or someplace I would have considered it's home to log out, but it's always been my choice to do so, I can't imagine how much this sucks for you and everyone else
Reminds me of the time the private server of an MMO I played shut down. it ran for 6 years. It used to have thousands of players, but by the 6th year, there's only 50 players online left. The admin announced that by the end of the month the server will be shutting down since they can no longer support it. Last day of August, we stayed online had chat with GMs, on that last day, the admin gave everyone all the best items available in the game and we had a final King of the hill type PVP. few minutes before the shutdown, we went to the Island map which is a beach, we all were given swimwear attire just sat around the campfire and we just stayed there talking about what to do next and our goodbyes.
and now since Blizzard faces severe financial crisis, they come up with Chinese players again......they even attempt to compensate with a few codes......
They allowed players to download their characters’ data, so I hope one day wow will be available in China again and everyone will be able to restore their characters. It is sad to see many people losing their hobby, which probably took a significant part in their lives. Especially due to the things completely out of their control.
Thats a spiderweb thin silver lining in a hurricane. Although that is some solace. I would put my characters data on a USB or Hard drive and give it a little display in my home or carry it for a while. That has to be an awful feeling. I hope they can regroup in other games. Then start the joy of another adventure with old friends.
I find it odd that Blizzard themselves don't backup their character for (if) they find a new partner to host their games. Imagine those who did not manage to backup...
This is really sad. A lot of people don't get along due to barriers like religion and nationality but those who are not gamers need to understand that when we play, there are no barriers and some games form camaraderie and friendship. To see the players come together and knowing they are about to disappear is heartbreaking. I'm not even chinese.
I totally disagree. Because of chinese players we have shit like gacha games, lootboxes and 200$ skins in LoL. They love this shit and they love pay to win... what is a huge barrier to me.
Actually Chinese players can always use vpn or legal gaming vpn to play international server. It’s just in Chinese server they have better environment, and they don’t need to pay the DLC ( They subscribe it with a relatively lower price).
watching this caused actual pain in my heart, i dont even play WoW but i cant imagine how it must feel watching your favourite game, all your memories in it, all the friends you've made in game, your guild and what not. All of that gone because corporations and politics can't even stay in its place, it has to ruin even the downtime we have away from it.
As an obsessed MMO gamer since 1999, my heart goes out. I left Everquest with my guild and went to Vanguard. It was sad and depressing when they closed the doors. I can't imagine if I played WoW daily since 2005, and it just abruptly ends.
@@zawiszaczarny1749 Says the person insulting people in RUclips comments, don't you have anything better to do or are you just projecting you lack of a life onto others?
all that celebration of the life they had with the game abruptly stopped to send them back to the familiar login screen but this time is lifeless and everything you had now gone. this was like watching someone hold something dear and having it die right in their arms.. like people huddled together dreading the last moment of an end out of their control. we feel your pain China. I hope 2023 brings something good enough to help you feel better. ❤️
@@MR.BONES007 the servers with their player data are gone. if they play another regions WoW they'd be on a fresh account :( also a VPN would probably get them in legal trouble by using it to bypass china's strict internet laws
I remember when this happened with an MMO from my childhood. All the clan members gathered together and we all took screenshots. I don't have a copy, but maybe my dad does (we used to play MMOs together). It was always so sad.
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
Seeing everyone gathered there for one last time made me feel like the very ending episode of an incredible anime ending forever with no new seasons ever being made. Made me feel like reading the last page of a wonderful book that will never have a continuation or another book. How painful.
I started playing wow since 2005. Lots of things happened in my life and I can no longer dedicate the time to play the game at a level that I once used to. But, I took for granted the fact that.... I can just renew my sub and still play the game that gave me countless memories of a great time of my life. The players in China will never get to go back and that sucks. Especially when people on the other side of the world still get to play.
On April 10, Blizzard Entertainment, Microsoft Games and NetEase jointly announced that Blizzard Entertainment’s game works will gradually return to the Chinese market starting this summer according to the updated game distribution agreement.
@@quinnquinnquinn215 doubtful, Chinese privacy laws prevented blizzard from saving the data. Not sure if Netease was allowed to keep it though. Remember reading that blizzard required players who wished to continue if they returned to download their game data from Netease. There was a lot of talk that they were not able to save the data before it closed down, due servers being overloaded with every player trying to do it.
I know this feeling, i was playing dragon nest since junior high school. I had that account for like 9 years until the server shutting down in 2019 . Of course , i was in that last moment 😊 . It was quite emotional moment at least for me
Dragon Nest. I remember finding that diamond at the bottom of the barrel. I lost way more time on that game that I thought I would. I loved the tinkerer class.
it's one thing to lose an account because the game isn't doing so good anymore, another thing when a game is being stripped because the companies just wants more from each other rather than thinking about the player base. The 2nd one hurts much more I think.
i played dragon nest for about a month, found vindictus, and sank 3+ years into that game instead. when they finally announce the death of that server ill probably log on to wave goodbye
I feel so bad for them. I don't even play these days but if I was to hear the game was shutting down I could only imagine how bummed I'd be, let alone the players that are still loving the game. I hope whatever bs is going on gets worked out, that really sucks for everyone that lost their favorite game
@@zawiszaczarny1749 i dont think thats so easy in china, its fucked up but thats probably all some of them had, i wouldnt be suprised if a few actually killed themselves, just bein honest
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
I think I would have gone to either Teldrassil or Duskwood, my favorite zones in the game. The beautiful fantasy forest of the night elves, teeming with life and nature, and the spooky haunted woods where I well and truly fell in love with the game for the first time while seething as a kid over Mor'ladim farming my corpse. I think I'll have to boot the game up and do that when it inevitably shuts down in general, even if I haven't played in about two years now.
But you wouldn't mind going to those places by yourself when the game ends even though there a bunch of players gathered in one place with fireworks to watch it end together?
Remember you can always just download your own private server and explore the map too, if you missed the places that much. That kinda shit is easy for us. Hopefully when WoW truly dies for us it'll be because we really don't care about it anymore anyway
I've had a similar experience to this one when Freerealms shut down. That was my childhood game, and memories of the shutdown are very similar to what these players experienced here. It's not just about virtual items and progress lost. Games really are an escape for a lot of people. I can't imagine how awful it feels to play a game for a decade and build friendships on there just to lose contact with them once the game dies. I feel that pain 100%. My family and I also played WoW, and it's impacted our lives far more than you'd expect. My dad started playing when WoW first came out. My mom followed once TBC released. During that time, my parents met with a guild to do raids and befriended them. I ended up playing WoW for the first time a little while before WoTLK. After WoTLK, the guild started hosting these yearly irl reunions. It only took a couple of trips to these reunions before my parents fell in love with the area. So we ended up moving, which probably wouldn't have happened if WoW did not exist.
@@Leeches- Dang, that's awful. I can totally understand being wary of maxing out in just any MMO because of that experience. The only saving grace I've had with game shutdowns was the fact I was never super great at them. I always played casually. Hopefully you've been able to find a stable game to replace GunZ. I still play WoW, but there hasn't been a game quite like Freerealms, and there probably won't be again.
Reminds me of being on to celebrate my last minutes in City of Heroes. That little hitch as it freezes and kicks you to the main menu is an absolutely heart-wrenching moment.
One thing playing a niche genre game, is in the back of your head _enjoy it until it lasts_ but to WoW, I mean people adjust/shape their life around it and even found their other half.
Man that City of Heroes was so memorable, the game was so big I feel I could get lost in it, unfortunately I thought it was so big I had to do some reasearch first but just forgot to come back.
@@brunch. yep all accounts are suspended over there not deleted blizzard is still looking for a stable server provider...its not like tera where it died after transfer
Same here. I played parts of the beta when i started my University studies. Then half a year after the initial release I started playing again and played through BC and Lich King. Then I played parts of Cataclysm and I tested Pandaria. Now almost 20 years later I get that "itch" to play again from time to time. I started a trial account a couple of years ago and I was amused (and a bit scared) to see how my old key bindings for mages and druids still were present in my muscle memory.
Man, I don't even play wow anymore but my heart was literally in my chest watching this knowing was about to come. People dedicate huge chunks of their lives to this game and its like losing a part of yourself. This is pure awful.
Some people say poor countries like Haiti are crappy countries, but at the bare minimum you have your freedom in many of those countries if nothing else. China could take care of their citizens if they wanted, they simply have zero regard for freedoms and human rights. That’s a crappy government if ever I heard one. I know it’s just a video game, but this is just one aspect of the terrible stuff the CCP does to their people. Stay strong Chinese people. I hope you gain your freedom one day.
I played WoW from opening day 2004 til 2011. Great memories made with great friends met (some I still keep in touch with to this day) with a heavy heart I quit playing, but at least it was on my own terms. I feel so bad for these guys who had the carpet yanked right out from under them like this. I would be livid. Heartfelt sympathies sent from an OG wow’er from the US of A
Same here. Played a bit less than. You till 2009 but man. Good times. I eventually left the game because it just consumed all my time gathering mats and doing things for raids and stuff.
This happened to my Maplestory2 account 3 years ago. The entire game was shutdown though aside from korea, so ALL regions went through the same thing. I know EXACTLY what it feels like to see the world freeze, watch everyone for a last moment, and get booted back to the login screen. Only to try and reconnect and watch as it fails. I stayed on the login screen for a few days, as the moment I closed it, I could never open the game again. Rest it peace, Alvadi, My Runeblade.
That must be so emotional. Spending all that time on a game and community just to have it pulled from under them. Seeing all them gather to bid farewell. ❤
I hadn't played SWG for years at the time it shut down and I was still sad as hell to know it was gone. Feel so bad for these people, all that time, effort, love, hate... Gone... And for what? Such a shame.
You realize there once was this place called Atlantis, the world has gone through several periods of cataclysms and lost civilizations. This is a videogame that people play for entertainment, if you are that invested in a game then you have a problem.
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
This is the FF14 1.0 shutdown all over again for these guys, and the worst part is there's a high chance there won't even be "A realm reborn" in their case
Play RuneScape, Jagex will just randomly ban you for no reason after playing for 20 years, and there are no GMs. The Jmods will just say "Too bad, so sad, you did it" no matter what they accuse you of.
@TheClipChannel If you spend 10 years on a hobby and suddenly all your work disappears, that's a children's loss? Are you seriously trying to gatekeep being sad right now?!
I really hope Blizzard finds a solution where the players get to keep their characters. I cannot imagine how shitty it must feel to have 10+ years of progress go down the drain because of a botched business deal.
Oh I'm sure it'll come back, NetEase might not want to make a deal with blizzard, but they're not the only player in china that can support blizzards servers. Only thing is, a new deal can take years to get approved by the government over there.
It is supposed to be some feature for saving/transferring your progress, but from what i understood it works not, and Blizzard always carrying most for the customers, doest give a fuck :) Belular gaming was Talking with a dude on this subject
This feels reminiscent of when Asheron's Call shut down in 2017. Losing the ability to even have the opportunity to venture back into the world where so much time was invested and so many memories were made is heart wrenching.
I started to play on Chinese server in 2015 when 6.0 was almost over and started legion until 9.0 what a great memory. I met my Chinese friends from my guild , we was like 30+ people eating hotpot in Chongqing. Played Mythic + 28lvl as my max. My server was Feralas. I’ve stopped around 2019 or something. No idea what happened to that server. It’s just so sad to see WOW is over. I’m glad I left in 2019 to avoid this heart break
That's just heartbreaking for them, I don't play a whole lot now but I would still be devastated to lose all those memories. I'm in Australia and worked with a Chinese guy who was over visiting on a work visa and didn't know English the best, I casually mentioned wow and his face lit up, from that day on we would chat about wow
This hurt me way more than it should. Hell man, i feel like I lost something myself. It s an obi wan feeling thousands voices going exctinct kind of shit.
Man, this reminds me of when the official Ragnarok Online server in our country was shut down. So many people gathered outside of Prontera just saying their goodbyes, talking about the next game to play or moving and starting over to a new server. Sad times.
That's so sad, honestly. Boomers don't understand how important this game is for people... People don't sink thousands and thousands of hours into a game like WoW *just* because they have nothing better to do. It brings people together and let's them have fun with other people, which might not be something they get a lot of outside of the internet... it's especially true for people who don't socialize well, people with huge anxiety issues, etc. WoW was one of my hobbies in high school, and not only did it help me meet new friends from literally all over the world who I still talk to over a decade later, but it also brought me and my IRL friends from school closer together. There were at least a dozen of people that I barely knew despite passing them in the halls every day, and I had no desire to get to know them... but when we started playing WoW together, it gave us chances to talk and interact, and I made lifelong friendships over many hours of hanging out in Org, late night raids, new expansions, etc. Some of these people I don't talk to now, but I formed an informal bowling league with 6-8 of them. I started a D&D group with another 4. I ended up living with two of them. When people say they cried over the news, I get it. People will laugh, or see it as a good thing because "now they can get outside and make some real friends" or whatever, but millions of friendships will end because these greedy fuckers had a petty disagreement over how they should be splitting the billions of dollars they're raking in.
Something like this should never happen...it sickens me when i cant get something just because i live in europe and not in america for example. and i cant even imagine how frustrating and sad this must be...losing so many years of game just because of the region you live in and knowing that its only your region and people in other parts of the world can still play the game you love but you cant
Bruh, it's just that company x in China that was in charge of distributing the game in China couldn't come to an agreement with Blizzard, so they didn't extend the contract. Player progress is saved. Blizzard just needs to find another company to handle the distribution of the game in China..
@@NoGyiEa ccp has been aggressing on gamers worldwide by banning them in their country. they dont intend to bring video games back, they have already banned steam and most of the popular distributors in their shithole of a country.
That is quite the experiment on what people's behavior would be in a case of a comet strike, for example. As you can see nobody is trying to achieve more gold or complete a quest. All are just having fun and meeting the End together.
It's how Life works. If you knew that you'll die in 200 days, you would stop doing most things. You would probably prefer to just make some memories, enjoy the last 200 days and just wait it out. To have a full enjoyable life, we must be unaware of our own end, otherwise all become pointless. Why would they get more gold or do quests? All will be erased in an hour and gone forever. You might as well pass the last hour with people and created some lasting memories!
FFXI was truly amazing but they really messed up and sent the game in a downward spiral with WoTG dumpster fire expansion. The knee jerk game breaking Abyssea reaction revived and kept the game going for another 3 fun years and I basically quit after that. Got ebisu rod and a kraken club the two end game rare items I always wanted and to me felt like I beat the game and left. Voidwatch was a nothing burger. There has never been anything like FFXI. The freedom to play and beat stuff how you wanted with such diversity of choices to me is what made it fun and great. Also how they created the game to force community made it feel more like it's own world. Had so much fun low manning and solo/duoing everything. Pet solo/duoing was one of my most favorite things in the game BST and SMN were such a cool concept. I was so happy I could do so much in Abyssea with them, the 96% damage reduction with gear and atma was hilarious. Tried FF14 over the years but it's nothing like FF11, just a cosmetic chat room game, what really pissed me off was when I like most were gone between patches they stole my house I worked so hard for and everything in it.
The only sad thing here is the fact that people let themselves be connected to a video character so much. That shows how a game that should be focused on community is just a collection of narcisists instead.
Thank god I've never had this happen to me, not yet at least. Worst loss I had was finding out Aion straight up deleted the 4.0 regions, they were my favs.
My account got hacked, and I quit in disgust. I did recover my account, with Blizzard's help. Eight years later, I fired my took back up. My toon was dead, and had spent the last eight years in the cemetary. He's got stories...
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
@@doctorsnakeeater1997DE doesn't allow players to buy in the In-game store if their country's political standing is not good with DE. Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, the Crimea region, and the Donbas region including Belarus and Russia. In response some if not all of these countries banned Warframe outright.
@@Ryder385 he is saying that there is a huge profit loss cutting down development budget. Thus lowering future contents quality, slowly driving playerbase down until the corpos say "fuck it aint nothing to milk here" and put their cash somewhere else. Blizzard/Activison can legit not go broke, but WoW itself could still die as a game. Its honestly just a question when "the next big thing" comes though.
The shutdown of cn servers was due to failure to reach an agreement on profit distribution between Netease and Blizzard. It finally settled down and the game came back online, skipping most of dragonflight, still run by Netease in china. By the way, cn servers are actually on the latest retail build. The legion login screen is just a common trick used by online games in china. As long as your game has the same title, you can add new maps and stuff without resubmitting the game for content review.
This happened to me a few years ago when a Metin2 private server closed after 10 years of being online, was heartbreaking as fuck, it’s not only your character, it’s the people you met, the memories you’ve had.
my heart goes out to these people, this isn't the only form of oppression they face on the daily but I know this one had to hurt. for some people, WoW is a temporary escape and I imagine that goes a long way in china
@@meurumtrain4747 damn dude, you're probably right. What a sad situation, maybe something positive will also happen though. Like somebody will spend more time with their family or go to the gym or do some tai chi or whatever, just like the pandarans.
You know what they should do then? Rise up. It is by being a silent majority that they allow the CCP to oppress them day in and day out. China can only change from within
@@meurumtrain4747 luckily the data is saved, but I almost guarantee some people will off themselves before there is a chance for the servers to come back. Sad reality but some people really live online and that whole side of their life was ruined in one big swoop idk what I'd do in their shoes, and I don't even play mmos.
I played a not very popular MMO but which I personally liked a lot, I invested time in it but I knew that sooner or later it would close, when the population went down I had to prepare myself, when it was finally announced the closure, even knowing it hurt me. I can't imagine the players who trusted WoW and so suddenly lost their accounts. politics/blizzard/neteasy aside, feel bad for the players.
There will always be WoW. It sucks that they lost their characters... but, they can do private servers still. Literally nothing's stopping China from playing WoW again, unless China itself decides to outlaw WoW
@@xxbrkdwnxx and while that's happening, I doubt it will happen. Blizzard's burned bridges with China to the point that NetEase would rather have dirt shoved in their face than to keep dealing with them. Even then, apparently the tool that allows you to download your character prior to the shut down was faulty at best, so some people have to start from scratch anyway if at all. And assuming they do find a partner... How long would it take to get Blizzard games back and running? I would assume it would be far quicker to get a PS of Dragonflight up and running.
This is one of the reason I stopped investing too much time on online based service game, like MMORPG. Eventually, live service will end especially after it's losing it's popularity due to many reasons. You just lost all your hard earned materials and level you accumulated for years. Endless hour grinding day and night. The only thing you could do was probably record video or take photos of it and only can say "it was fun while it lasted". On the other hand, offline sp games? Like Fallout, Skyrim, and Prototype and other SP Offline game, all recent old games I just played back? I booted them up 5-10 years later and my savegame still the same as I left it years ago.
This was beautiful, sad, tragic and resonant all at the same time... I appreciate all the players convening for a Grand send off... Well done, minions. Well done.
@@ValleriaValentineakshually 🤓, a communist society is stateless, china is not actually communist and you fell for propaganda of their government which want people to believe that they are communist
Guys this isn't permanent, chinese players were able to back up all their history and account information with blizzard, and just need to wait patiently while blizzard seeks a new partner to bring the game back. it sucks, but this is not permanent at all.
That's how it would happen if it wasn't in China. Companies can't pick up the contract because they don't get to decide, CCP decides all policies. I don't know why you are imagining this scenario but this is a totalitarian & corrupt dictatoriship without access to the freemarket. Unless blizzard cave and give the correct apology/'volontary contribution' to the party members deciding for this, wow is gone. Look up interview of foreign contractors during the construction of the new Beijing airport, the sheer scale of the corruption is insane. But that's just how it works.
@@akshayakshay2081 why do i get a red flag that seems like you just hate chinese in general. Dont know what your logic stems from tbh and i bet your argument about it will ultimately just result to you hating on chinese people.......wanna bet on it?
This just shows that its not worth getting too attached to pixels and that everything you worked for online can always be taken away. Cherish the memories you made playing the game, thats something that no one can take away from you.
It's not just about getting attached to pixels though. It's about people losing part of their social life. You can argue that if people are friends they can remain friends outside of the game but the game is a thing they share in common and what connects them and brings them together.
Wow players don't play for memories for real. They play everyday and are addicted to it. They go to bed thinking what they should have done, and what they will do when they wake up, and turn it back on in the morning. The amount of people I used to see log in and out to just farm Sha was enough to think shit I'm turning into one of these players that focus on a reset day.
My name is. Professor_baassiri from the game Dream of Mirror Online. I started playing when i was 16. WOW came out shortly afterwards. I never got into WOW. too big. But we had the same experience. I was there for the killing of the Aeria Games server. On that day, the server nearly crashed. In a small 5 gigabyte MMO, 7 hours ahead of America and 7 hours before Australia, it was still packed and everyone was there. My guildies, my enemies, my in game lover, the scammers, the bots. It was heartwrenching. I was attached. I was part of the old guard. A few years later, Steam would put this game on their platform. All hail GabeN.
Funny to see so many people making this political when it comes down to pure capitalism. Blizzard wanted Netease to support its services for another 6 months while it shopped around for a new partner in China. Netease (understandably) called it out as scummy and said no deal, since they would literally just be helping their competitors.
Some will say its just a game. But no, its a part of us. People that have spent 10 years on this game. Making friends, collecting mounts or pets. It has shaped large parts of peoples lives. And I really hope that blizzard can find a way to get these servers back up so that people can have that piece of their lives back.
@@tessier_ashpool Exactly. When people tell me they started around Cata or MoP I think, "Wasn't that yesterday?" No idea why Eon thinks a decade is a long time in terms of WoW's history... I started in Nov 2006, which is very early, especially considering I was thirteen, but I have much respect for those that started in 2004/2005.
@@thitherword i think china had wow + it's expacs released after the rest of the world got theirs (hence why they're still on legion), however i think this was still admittedly longer than 10 years though i don't know how long
Wow is not just a games ... its the experience you made over the last 15 years ... the friends , the Quests, the Dungeons, the Raids ... all the funny and all the sad Moments. You cant compare This to a 40 Hrs Game
ive played ff14 off and on for the past couple years and i already have literal months of playtime i can only imagine how much time i would have if i played wow since it came out. rip.
@@Epolusgaming-gl2wn the times where you could just say "its a game chill" are gone man, this is peoples jobs now. whether in esports or streaming somewhere out there is a chinese asmongold dieing inside because years of work and effort are gone and he just might lose a huge chunk of his viewers.
image having a spectral tiger of 10k and losing it because of the servers shutdown lol you never safe with the items you buy in any online game if the servers shut down you lost that money.
This is a huge point most people aren't aware of. Blizzard would've absolutely stuck around if they weren't required to partner with a Chinese firm. Pretty disgusting too, because we know those firms get a HUGE amount of access to sensitive trade secrets and are able to reverse-engineer American and European products and sell an inferior ripoff for cheaper. Hurts everyone.
@@Mennion3 Oh look someone that doesn't know anything their talking about. Is Tesla a gaming company? No it's not. But guess what? Activision-Blizzard is and guess what? There are laws regarding those kind of companies in China. But I guess that's too hard for you to look up or understand.
@@Boo-jk3ii Thats factually inaccurate. Most firms are not operating independently and some firms have been able to buy their way out to operate independently. The fact you are defending this implies to be you have ties to the PRC. Ive done business in China and they are the least trust worthy country ive operated in.
@MrOutPerform I wasn't defending them. I was calling out the guy named Mennion3 who thinks that what you said was wrong. I know that for sure gaming companies must be partnered up with a Chinese publisher if they wish to do business in China.
Reminds me of the end of City of Heroes and the amazing send-off they players gave it amidst crashing meteors. *sniff* No matter what others think about the MMO you play the most, we all (players with a big time investment in a MMO) understand and connect with the sadness of something like this happening. My go-to MMO has places where I don't even do anything, just chill and admire the beautiful landscapes to escape from the urban madness of the real world. Losing that would be horrible. I hope that this can be resolved in the future.
@@du4lstrik3 i think its okay to get attached , everyone knows everything end (sometime suddenly). It makes no sense to live without getting attached to things just because you know it has a finite time. (also mmos have a community aspect as well so you lose that too)
I fear for the mental health of those players.. Logging on after a rough day to pvp is one of the few things that can calm me down when shit gets bad. Game helped get me through my parents divorce and a host of other things. Sorry my foreign brothers and sisters, even if it comes back one day not everyone will return. Good or bad you decide.
We laughed ourselves when we wiped by silly mistakes, we shouted together when we won our first battleground fight, we patted Mr. Bigglesworth for good luck and we of course strip danced in goldshire. Today our world dies with all of our memories, I want to thank everyone that was a part of this great journey, it was a good run.
@@CoachJohnMcGuirk I'm sure they meant the event fireworks from all the different years. over the years during events different types of fireworks have come out, if you've been hoarding long enough i'm sure you'd be able to cycle through the entire progression of fireworks
@@StarLight-kz9dq yes they have ! and idk exactly why but its kinda their network company could not deal with gaming companies as well as Iran does ! we really love to play this game but we can not (:
@@StarLight-kz9dq VPN will slow your connection and of course make your ms worse and also they are not cheap for us ! normal ms : 190 and still we like to play but sure cant enjoy
I have met the nicest people on the planet in wow, i’ve raided with idiots and the best in wow, i’ve had adventures with randos at 3 in the morning, and I have met my fiance in WoW. My heart will be broken and a piece of me gone if ever this would happen to me. It isn’t just a game. RIP to those characters and may the players find happiness once again.
This is heartbreaking, look how much they care to come on and wait like that giving their characters and the world a final goodbye 😢
This is like watching Universe 7 get erased in Dragon ball Super
@@jasonu3741 I can't give that a thumbs up 🥺 but yeah
Not even joking I felt more grief about this, then the whole Ukraine war thing.
@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly damn ngl same lmao.
it's not. it's a good thing probably one of their best life decisions.
This is absolutely terrible. No joke. People lost things they have been emotionally attached to for literal decades because some corpos couldn’t agree on a deal. Such bullshit.
Oh no. Chinese people are sad... anyways...
I think it's great. Tired of game companies always pandering to one continent.
@@tordb Continent? not even, to A COUNTRY!
proof that anything owned online has no value
It's because China wants their population playing Chinese made games so they force worse and worse deals on foreigners while stealing their tech
Since 2006, I have played on both the Chinese and American servers, and this is a deeply emotional experience for me, bringing tears to my eyes. As one of the druids, I teleported back to Emerald and chose to fall asleep at the bottom of the lake before the shut down, where I will rest forever. Goodbye WOW.
Wow!!! That‘s insane dude, wishing your druid all the best!
That's heartbreaking. I shouldn't have watched this, and I can still play. I mean life is more important, but what a brutal fashion for it to be taken right out from under all the players. My heart hurts right now for you all.
Whenever I part ways with a game I bring my character to it's starting point or someplace I would have considered it's home to log out, but it's always been my choice to do so, I can't imagine how much this sucks for you and everyone else
sad story :(
Don’t tell us that 😭
Reminds me of the time the private server of an MMO I played shut down. it ran for 6 years. It used to have thousands of players, but by the 6th year, there's only 50 players online left. The admin announced that by the end of the month the server will be shutting down since they can no longer support it. Last day of August, we stayed online had chat with GMs, on that last day, the admin gave everyone all the best items available in the game and we had a final King of the hill type PVP. few minutes before the shutdown, we went to the Island map which is a beach, we all were given swimwear attire just sat around the campfire and we just stayed there talking about what to do next and our goodbyes.
What game was this?
@@SkiddyBeef must be good, old L2
🥲🥲
RO?
and now since Blizzard faces severe financial crisis, they come up with Chinese players again......they even attempt to compensate with a few codes......
One of the best memories from my teenage years was playing WoW. Just remember they can't shut down the memories, friends.
well maybe someone there rams you with his car and you go into a vegetative state when you cannot remember your time playing wow :(( just saying
alzheimer's has entered the chat
Cringe
Yet
They'll certainly try you can bet on that
My heart goes out to all the poor players losing their accounts forever because of things out of their control. You will be remembered and missed.
Its not out of there control though. It's the Chinese population fault for having a government that screws over the gaming industry.
Imagine wasting your life on a video game
Or weak trolling on RUclips 🤡
@@pete531 is it worse that wasting it in youtube comment section ?
Blizzard made a tool for netease to archive these acc's. So when a new provider is found they may be reinstated
They allowed players to download their characters’ data, so I hope one day wow will be available in China again and everyone will be able to restore their characters.
It is sad to see many people losing their hobby, which probably took a significant part in their lives. Especially due to the things completely out of their control.
Nah, China made their own wow.
I mean literally they re skimned the game and released it.
@@grosslittlegoblin1358 tarisland? its nothing like wow. just looks like a generic fantasy game
Thats a spiderweb thin silver lining in a hurricane.
Although that is some solace. I would put my characters data on a USB or Hard drive and give it a little display in my home or carry it for a while.
That has to be an awful feeling. I hope they can regroup in other games. Then start the joy of another adventure with old friends.
@@itsKayzur with a lot of WoW knockoffs. Bitch even stole deathwing.
I find it odd that Blizzard themselves don't backup their character for (if) they find a new partner to host their games. Imagine those who did not manage to backup...
This is really sad. A lot of people don't get along due to barriers like religion and nationality but those who are not gamers need to understand that when we play, there are no barriers and some games form camaraderie and friendship. To see the players come together and knowing they are about to disappear is heartbreaking. I'm not even chinese.
the barrier between us is if im horde and u are alliance :P
@@sandra7190 kid 🤡
I totally disagree.
Because of chinese players we have shit like gacha games, lootboxes and 200$ skins in LoL. They love this shit and they love pay to win... what is a huge barrier to me.
Actually Chinese players can always use vpn or legal gaming vpn to play international server. It’s just in Chinese server they have better environment, and they don’t need to pay the DLC ( They subscribe it with a relatively lower price).
@@JesiAsh "Because of Chinese players"
watching this caused actual pain in my heart, i dont even play WoW but i cant imagine how it must feel watching your favourite game, all your memories in it, all the friends you've made in game, your guild and what not. All of that gone because corporations and politics can't even stay in its place, it has to ruin even the downtime we have away from it.
everyone blaming capitalism but if we had socialism the lights wouldn’t even be on past 6 PM 😂
@@BigHotSauceBoss69 i cant really see anyone blaming capitalism? and I definitely can't see anyone advocating for socialism... are you alright?
They're just addicts. This is good for them.
@@BigHotSauceBoss69 ah great another person utterly obsessed with politics
This has nothing to do with either.... Get a grip man
I went through this with City of Heroes. Thankfully there have been private servers running and NCSoft has allowed them to exist.
As an obsessed MMO gamer since 1999, my heart goes out. I left Everquest with my guild and went to Vanguard. It was sad and depressing when they closed the doors. I can't imagine if I played WoW daily since 2005, and it just abruptly ends.
time to get a life incel bois lmao
I think some of them are going to be happier. I think playing wow (or any videogame in general) DAILY is like having 30 boxes of cigarettes every day.
Close your computer Chinese spy or we are gonna talk about 1989 tiananmen
@@zawiszaczarny1749 Says the person insulting people in RUclips comments, don't you have anything better to do or are you just projecting you lack of a life onto others?
@@zawiszaczarny1749 kek
all that celebration of the life they had with the game abruptly stopped to send them back to the familiar login screen but this time is lifeless and everything you had now gone. this was like watching someone hold something dear and having it die right in their arms.. like people huddled together dreading the last moment of an end out of their control. we feel your pain China. I hope 2023 brings something good enough to help you feel better. ❤️
Momento Mori
Could they use a VPN to continue playing
@@MR.BONES007 the servers with their player data are gone. if they play another regions WoW they'd be on a fresh account :(
also a VPN would probably get them in legal trouble by using it to bypass china's strict internet laws
@@ashxxiv man that sucks 😞
Their country doesn't fight for freedom so you get what your given... every company should ban china and other countries
I remember when this happened with an MMO from my childhood. All the clan members gathered together and we all took screenshots. I don't have a copy, but maybe my dad does (we used to play MMOs together). It was always so sad.
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
Seeing everyone gathered there for one last time made me feel like the very ending episode of an incredible anime ending forever with no new seasons ever being made. Made me feel like reading the last page of a wonderful book that will never have a continuation or another book. How painful.
Goodbye cowboy beebop my heart still crawes for more.
ok bro
They're just addicts. This is good for them.
cringe weeb takes
Look at some of the vids of ffxiv 1.0 shutdown...
I started playing wow since 2005. Lots of things happened in my life and I can no longer dedicate the time to play the game at a level that I once used to. But, I took for granted the fact that.... I can just renew my sub and still play the game that gave me countless memories of a great time of my life. The players in China will never get to go back and that sucks. Especially when people on the other side of the world still get to play.
Maybe if ccp goes down in your lifetime you can restart on other servers.
CCP are sucking the life out of China. One day they will take everything.
down with the ccp
I wonder if anyone will move to a different country just to play WoW again
Same here started in 2005 and nowtoo much going on in life to find the time, but this makes me want to start back if even for just an hour a week.
Damn... I feel so bad for them.
its funny i didn't feel anything hearing about this, but watching this clip now, it was actually pretty sad
This is what happened when you give the government unlimited and unchecked power.
The government isn’t your friend and they don’t care about you.
China 1 World ? xDD common 😂
Lmfao fk them all. little gold farmers and disgusting online cheaters
i dont feel the least bad, its a video game they will get over it
On April 10, Blizzard Entertainment, Microsoft Games and NetEase jointly announced that Blizzard Entertainment’s game works will gradually return to the Chinese market starting this summer according to the updated game distribution agreement.
hope their players data is saved on some nasa level harddrive
@@quinnquinnquinn215 doubtful, Chinese privacy laws prevented blizzard from saving the data. Not sure if Netease was allowed to keep it though. Remember reading that blizzard required players who wished to continue if they returned to download their game data from Netease. There was a lot of talk that they were not able to save the data before it closed down, due servers being overloaded with every player trying to do it.
Nasa lost the moon landing tapes..
NetEase allowed them to download their data.
So the users can retain their data and play again?
I know this feeling, i was playing dragon nest since junior high school. I had that account for like 9 years until the server shutting down in 2019 . Of course , i was in that last moment 😊 . It was quite emotional moment at least for me
Dragon Nest. I remember finding that diamond at the bottom of the barrel. I lost way more time on that game that I thought I would. I loved the tinkerer class.
Just for them to come back later and give us the sin of DN mobile 😭😭
it's one thing to lose an account because the game isn't doing so good anymore, another thing when a game is being stripped because the companies just wants more from each other rather than thinking about the player base. The 2nd one hurts much more I think.
let's just hope that dragon sword would bring back those DN moments back in the day
i played dragon nest for about a month, found vindictus, and sank 3+ years into that game instead. when they finally announce the death of that server ill probably log on to wave goodbye
I feel so bad for them. I don't even play these days but if I was to hear the game was shutting down I could only imagine how bummed I'd be, let alone the players that are still loving the game. I hope whatever bs is going on gets worked out, that really sucks for everyone that lost their favorite game
Yeah Imagine u play something everyday for 10 hours this is ur life u love it and than its gone i not even play wow and feel sad about it
time to get a life incel bois lmao
@@zawiszaczarny1749 i dont think thats so easy in china, its fucked up but thats probably all some of them had, i wouldnt be suprised if a few actually killed themselves, just bein honest
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
I think I would have gone to either Teldrassil or Duskwood, my favorite zones in the game. The beautiful fantasy forest of the night elves, teeming with life and nature, and the spooky haunted woods where I well and truly fell in love with the game for the first time while seething as a kid over Mor'ladim farming my corpse. I think I'll have to boot the game up and do that when it inevitably shuts down in general, even if I haven't played in about two years now.
As a gamer who have witnessed a lot of online games' deaths first person, trust me, you would want to be with the community.
@@bronzejourney5784 I second this. But, everyone has their own way
But you wouldn't mind going to those places by yourself when the game ends even though there a bunch of players gathered in one place with fireworks to watch it end together?
Remember you can always just download your own private server and explore the map too, if you missed the places that much. That kinda shit is easy for us. Hopefully when WoW truly dies for us it'll be because we really don't care about it anymore anyway
Barrens or Tanaris for me, maybe because I was horde player
this is why single player game is better. MMO shutdown feels like one just wasted some much from their life time for nothing but a short memory.
I've had a similar experience to this one when Freerealms shut down. That was my childhood game, and memories of the shutdown are very similar to what these players experienced here. It's not just about virtual items and progress lost. Games really are an escape for a lot of people. I can't imagine how awful it feels to play a game for a decade and build friendships on there just to lose contact with them once the game dies. I feel that pain 100%.
My family and I also played WoW, and it's impacted our lives far more than you'd expect. My dad started playing when WoW first came out. My mom followed once TBC released. During that time, my parents met with a guild to do raids and befriended them. I ended up playing WoW for the first time a little while before WoTLK. After WoTLK, the guild started hosting these yearly irl reunions. It only took a couple of trips to these reunions before my parents fell in love with the area. So we ended up moving, which probably wouldn't have happened if WoW did not exist.
@@Leeches- Dang, that's awful. I can totally understand being wary of maxing out in just any MMO because of that experience. The only saving grace I've had with game shutdowns was the fact I was never super great at them. I always played casually. Hopefully you've been able to find a stable game to replace GunZ. I still play WoW, but there hasn't been a game quite like Freerealms, and there probably won't be again.
Reminds me of being on to celebrate my last minutes in City of Heroes. That little hitch as it freezes and kicks you to the main menu is an absolutely heart-wrenching moment.
One thing playing a niche genre game, is in the back of your head _enjoy it until it lasts_ but to WoW, I mean people adjust/shape their life around it and even found their other half.
City of Heroes is still playable! Search CoH Homecoming if you didn't already know!
Cities of Heroes sucked. All you could attack was large groups, and it was impossible to solo any level of reasonable content.
you can play CoH now
Man that City of Heroes was so memorable, the game was so big I feel I could get lost in it, unfortunately I thought it was so big I had to do some reasearch first but just forgot to come back.
Bro I literally almost cried... Feel really bad for them. Seeing how they all came out and were celebrating one last time was just incredibly sad.
@franciscomontiel113 100%
now blizzard can focus on the correct consumer
@@weirdyoutubechannels Yea definitely not, your content is pedo clickbait lol.... Very weird muh dude.
You almost cried? You forget to take your hormone blockers or something?
@@brunch. yep all accounts are suspended over there not deleted blizzard is still looking for a stable server provider...its not like tera where it died after transfer
That sucks man. I've played since BC, not as much lately, but I can't imagine just getting cut off like that. Kinda sad 😢
screw those nerds!
wtf! They should get a life by now.....
this actually gave me goosebumps i used to play wow from 2004 until 2010 i got to talk to so many people people from different cultures it was insane
FACK AMERICA!
Same here. I played parts of the beta when i started my University studies. Then half a year after the initial release I started playing again and played through BC and Lich King. Then I played parts of Cataclysm and I tested Pandaria. Now almost 20 years later I get that "itch" to play again from time to time.
I started a trial account a couple of years ago and I was amused (and a bit scared) to see how my old key bindings for mages and druids still were present in my muscle memory.
screw those nerds!
wtf! They should get a life by now.....
Man, I don't even play wow anymore but my heart was literally in my chest watching this knowing was about to come. People dedicate huge chunks of their lives to this game and its like losing a part of yourself. This is pure awful.
Dont spend a chunk of your life in video game like total loser.
Wow was the most boring game ever played. But I felt for them, so much grind and they losing it because they were born in wrong country.
@@bunnyfreakz I have spent a chunk of my life in VideoGames in general, this applies to me?
go more outside man
Everyone's heart is "literally in their chest" ?
hits you right in the feels. i hope one day they can get their accounts back
I think all the accounts are saved they just need someone to be the Chinese company for blizzard going forward.
Yeah i hope they can migrate to new server with their account. Loosing accounts and all progress bcs of server closed are sucks
nah who gives a fuck ,it's a video game and a shit one at that
Same!!! 😢😢😢
Says the Americans who are responsible for it.
Some people say poor countries like Haiti are crappy countries, but at the bare minimum you have your freedom in many of those countries if nothing else. China could take care of their citizens if they wanted, they simply have zero regard for freedoms and human rights. That’s a crappy government if ever I heard one.
I know it’s just a video game, but this is just one aspect of the terrible stuff the CCP does to their people. Stay strong Chinese people. I hope you gain your freedom one day.
I played WoW from opening day 2004 til 2011. Great memories made with great friends met (some I still keep in touch with to this day) with a heavy heart I quit playing, but at least it was on my own terms. I feel so bad for these guys who had the carpet yanked right out from under them like this. I would be livid.
Heartfelt sympathies sent from an OG wow’er from the US of A
Well said brother well said
Same here. Played a bit less than. You till 2009 but man. Good times. I eventually left the game because it just consumed all my time gathering mats and doing things for raids and stuff.
time to get a life incel bois lmao
Why did you quit.
This happened to my Maplestory2 account 3 years ago. The entire game was shutdown though aside from korea, so ALL regions went through the same thing. I know EXACTLY what it feels like to see the world freeze, watch everyone for a last moment, and get booted back to the login screen. Only to try and reconnect and watch as it fails. I stayed on the login screen for a few days, as the moment I closed it, I could never open the game again.
Rest it peace, Alvadi, My Runeblade.
The game had a terrible community. Full of elitists and crappy people at the top.
@@NeoShinobi every game to ever exist does. Some more so than others
That must be so emotional. Spending all that time on a game and community just to have it pulled from under them. Seeing all them gather to bid farewell. ❤
I hadn't played SWG for years at the time it shut down and I was still sad as hell to know it was gone. Feel so bad for these people, all that time, effort, love, hate... Gone... And for what? Such a shame.
Having an mmo world die is always sad. Gives me some sort of existential dread as if a world is really being deleted. Anyone else?
You realize there once was this place called Atlantis, the world has gone through several periods of cataclysms and lost civilizations. This is a videogame that people play for entertainment, if you are that invested in a game then you have a problem.
@@krel3358 wrong. I have multiple problems.
@@IKIGAIofficial I guess reading comprehension is one of them.
@@krel3358 wrong.
@@krel3358 🤓🤓🤓🤓
that freeze before ejecting you to the log in screen is such a heart ache.
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
This is the FF14 1.0 shutdown all over again for these guys, and the worst part is there's a high chance there won't even be "A realm reborn" in their case
Yeah, at least with FFXIV though when the servers came down they got an awesome cinematic.
They can still play in Taiwan Hong Kong servers thought you can kick them all out by saying tiananmen square masacre or Winnie the poo.
@@marlonyo Winnie the Pooh! [It's a teddy bear...] Yeah, a bear!
wow < ff14
@@Enclave. it was a promise of a return and second beginning; something chinese WoW is more than uncertain of.
back to real life OMEGALUL
This is actually insane. I couldn't imagine losing something for no reason after years and years. My heart goes out to them.
The less we do business with China the better.
Calm down
@TheClipChannel 10+ years of people lifes gone for no reason tho
Play RuneScape, Jagex will just randomly ban you for no reason after playing for 20 years, and there are no GMs. The Jmods will just say "Too bad, so sad, you did it" no matter what they accuse you of.
@TheClipChannel If you spend 10 years on a hobby and suddenly all your work disappears, that's a children's loss?
Are you seriously trying to gatekeep being sad right now?!
I really hope Blizzard finds a solution where the players get to keep their characters. I cannot imagine how shitty it must feel to have 10+ years of progress go down the drain because of a botched business deal.
didnt they add a savestate or something for if/when they resume service?
A lot of them went private server. A lot more went us servers
Blizz own the data, much like users payment details etc.
Oh I'm sure it'll come back, NetEase might not want to make a deal with blizzard, but they're not the only player in china that can support blizzards servers. Only thing is, a new deal can take years to get approved by the government over there.
It is supposed to be some feature for saving/transferring your progress, but from what i understood it works not, and Blizzard always carrying most for the customers, doest give a fuck :) Belular gaming was Talking with a dude on this subject
All this moments will be lost in time... like tears in the rain.
Blade runner😊
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"
This feels reminiscent of when Asheron's Call shut down in 2017. Losing the ability to even have the opportunity to venture back into the world where so much time was invested and so many memories were made is heart wrenching.
I wanna give you a high five, daym AC takes me back
@@philmehrart Solclaim here
Damn Asherons Call was still going in 2017? 😮
@@philmehrart Same…was my first MMO. Good times.
@@jw70467 Harvestgain here!
I started to play on Chinese server in 2015 when 6.0 was almost over and started legion until 9.0 what a great memory. I met my Chinese friends from my guild , we was like 30+ people eating hotpot in Chongqing. Played Mythic + 28lvl as my max.
My server was Feralas. I’ve stopped around 2019 or something. No idea what happened to that server. It’s just so sad to see WOW is over. I’m glad I left in 2019 to avoid this heart break
That's just heartbreaking for them, I don't play a whole lot now but I would still be devastated to lose all those memories. I'm in Australia and worked with a Chinese guy who was over visiting on a work visa and didn't know English the best, I casually mentioned wow and his face lit up, from that day on we would chat about wow
Can't even state it's like Destroying a planet with a death star and calling it just business.
Feeling the Nostalrius vibes... it's always so cool when a huge group of WoW players are together essentially RPing
This hurt me way more than it should. Hell man, i feel like I lost something myself. It s an obi wan feeling thousands voices going exctinct kind of shit.
Man, this reminds me of when the official Ragnarok Online server in our country was shut down. So many people gathered outside of Prontera just saying their goodbyes, talking about the next game to play or moving and starting over to a new server. Sad times.
They were all hoping for that magic isekai moment to happen, like 'overlord'.
Alas 😢
This reminds me of so many childhood games that shut down over the years... always an unwelcome goodbye
That's so sad, honestly. Boomers don't understand how important this game is for people... People don't sink thousands and thousands of hours into a game like WoW *just* because they have nothing better to do. It brings people together and let's them have fun with other people, which might not be something they get a lot of outside of the internet... it's especially true for people who don't socialize well, people with huge anxiety issues, etc.
WoW was one of my hobbies in high school, and not only did it help me meet new friends from literally all over the world who I still talk to over a decade later, but it also brought me and my IRL friends from school closer together. There were at least a dozen of people that I barely knew despite passing them in the halls every day, and I had no desire to get to know them... but when we started playing WoW together, it gave us chances to talk and interact, and I made lifelong friendships over many hours of hanging out in Org, late night raids, new expansions, etc. Some of these people I don't talk to now, but I formed an informal bowling league with 6-8 of them. I started a D&D group with another 4. I ended up living with two of them.
When people say they cried over the news, I get it. People will laugh, or see it as a good thing because "now they can get outside and make some real friends" or whatever, but millions of friendships will end because these greedy fuckers had a petty disagreement over how they should be splitting the billions of dollars they're raking in.
I know boomers who play the game and are more than enough emotionally attached to the game.
@@rudy951 yeah that's true... I'm using it more in the colloquial sense though. I mean out of touch old people who don't understand the internet.
@@Master_Twango who the fuck do you think made the game KID. stfu. im so tired of hearing the word boomer used by RETARDS.
You kids need to find something better to do. Like go touch some grass.
The og wow players are boomers now 😉
God speed Chinese WoW fans. I hope to see you in Azeroth again some day!
they are playing on the taiwan servers now
I don't.
golds gonna get expensive now they're gone
@@Puretea4711 well majority dont
Said nobody with functioning brain cells
Look at what WoW players look like irl... They're making the right decision
Something like this should never happen...it sickens me when i cant get something just because i live in europe and not in america for example. and i cant even imagine how frustrating and sad this must be...losing so many years of game just because of the region you live in and knowing that its only your region and people in other parts of the world can still play the game you love but you cant
Bruh, it's just that company x in China that was in charge of distributing the game in China couldn't come to an agreement with Blizzard, so they didn't extend the contract. Player progress is saved. Blizzard just needs to find another company to handle the distribution of the game in China..
@@NoGyiEa yeh, that's not going to happen cause ccp
die of capital game
@@NoGyiEa ccp has been aggressing on gamers worldwide by banning them in their country. they dont intend to bring video games back, they have already banned steam and most of the popular distributors in their shithole of a country.
That is quite the experiment on what people's behavior would be in a case of a comet strike, for example.
As you can see nobody is trying to achieve more gold or complete a quest.
All are just having fun and meeting the End together.
It's how Life works. If you knew that you'll die in 200 days, you would stop doing most things. You would probably prefer to just make some memories, enjoy the last 200 days and just wait it out. To have a full enjoyable life, we must be unaware of our own end, otherwise all become pointless. Why would they get more gold or do quests? All will be erased in an hour and gone forever. You might as well pass the last hour with people and created some lasting memories!
As a long time player of FFXI and WoW. This hits deep. Some of my best memories in gaming history all took place on those MMORPGs.
Lmao Runscape servers outlasted Chinese wow servers. Never would I have ever thought.
FFXI was truly amazing but they really messed up and sent the game in a downward spiral with WoTG dumpster fire expansion. The knee jerk game breaking Abyssea reaction revived and kept the game going for another 3 fun years and I basically quit after that. Got ebisu rod and a kraken club the two end game rare items I always wanted and to me felt like I beat the game and left. Voidwatch was a nothing burger. There has never been anything like FFXI. The freedom to play and beat stuff how you wanted with such diversity of choices to me is what made it fun and great. Also how they created the game to force community made it feel more like it's own world. Had so much fun low manning and solo/duoing everything. Pet solo/duoing was one of my most favorite things in the game BST and SMN were such a cool concept. I was so happy I could do so much in Abyssea with them, the 96% damage reduction with gear and atma was hilarious. Tried FF14 over the years but it's nothing like FF11, just a cosmetic chat room game, what really pissed me off was when I like most were gone between patches they stole my house I worked so hard for and everything in it.
The only sad thing here is the fact that people let themselves be connected to a video character so much. That shows how a game that should be focused on community is just a collection of narcisists instead.
Thank god I've never had this happen to me, not yet at least.
Worst loss I had was finding out Aion straight up deleted the 4.0 regions, they were my favs.
When Tera shut down, this is how I felt too. It hurts to lose a game you spent so much time in, challenging yourself and having fun with friends.
Tera deserved to be shut down
My account got hacked, and I quit in disgust. I did recover my account, with Blizzard's help. Eight years later, I fired my took back up. My toon was dead, and had spent the last eight years in the cemetary. He's got stories...
Find the Lord Jesus Christ repent of sins and turn to God. Games that open doors to demons are not worth it! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
It's like watching people hug each other and hold hands while they die together
If you are a nolifer gamer, then this is literally what happens.
This is heartbreaking. Truly. I just play Warframe, but if I lost it all like this… I can’t imagine. My heart goes out to them all.
There are countries banning Warframe. Its truly sad because of DE's decisions.😥
@@Desolator-ny7cb more like US government decisions force upon DE.
@@Desolator-ny7cb Wait, what decisions? Why are countries banning warframe?
@@doctorsnakeeater1997DE doesn't allow players to buy in the In-game store if their country's political standing is not good with DE.
Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, the Crimea region, and the Donbas region including Belarus and Russia. In response some if not all of these countries banned Warframe outright.
tencent get warframe it should be safe no ?
Seeing WoW end like this feels like a grim omen for the game overall.
Yeah my thoughts too..
100% yes. They lose billions of revenue now and of course this will affect the budget for further developments.
@@PiratDunkelbart Its actually not that much of a financial lose. NetEase made most of the money.
@@PiratDunkelbart Are you saying you think Blizzard will go bankrupt now?
@@Ryder385 he is saying that there is a huge profit loss cutting down development budget. Thus lowering future contents quality, slowly driving playerbase down until the corpos say "fuck it aint nothing to milk here" and put their cash somewhere else.
Blizzard/Activison can legit not go broke, but WoW itself could still die as a game. Its honestly just a question when "the next big thing" comes though.
The shutdown of cn servers was due to failure to reach an agreement on profit distribution between Netease and Blizzard. It finally settled down and the game came back online, skipping most of dragonflight, still run by Netease in china. By the way, cn servers are actually on the latest retail build. The legion login screen is just a common trick used by online games in china. As long as your game has the same title, you can add new maps and stuff without resubmitting the game for content review.
This happened to me a few years ago when a Metin2 private server closed after 10 years of being online, was heartbreaking as fuck, it’s not only your character, it’s the people you met, the memories you’ve had.
Wait, your nickname is Diogo. Are you not Turkish?
Berlin’deki yangında data serverları yanınca kapanan sunucudan kapanıyor galiba baya popüler bi sunucuydu
@@kurosu-samaklipleri7090 no, I’m Portuguese
@@diogo.3711 ronaldo
@@kurosu-samaklipleri7090 he's portuguese, every male in portugal is named Diogo or Pedro
it gives me goosebumps seeing all the ppl there just knowing this is their last day of playing the game..
my heart goes out to these people, this isn't the only form of oppression they face on the daily but I know this one had to hurt. for some people, WoW is a temporary escape and I imagine that goes a long way in china
Some might commit suicide
@@meurumtrain4747 damn dude, you're probably right. What a sad situation, maybe something positive will also happen though. Like somebody will spend more time with their family or go to the gym or do some tai chi or whatever, just like the pandarans.
@@bobloerakker7010 maybe some? But I bet the latter will offthemselves, go into depression, or struggle to find something else.
You know what they should do then? Rise up.
It is by being a silent majority that they allow the CCP to oppress them day in and day out.
China can only change from within
@@meurumtrain4747 luckily the data is saved, but I almost guarantee some people will off themselves before there is a chance for the servers to come back. Sad reality but some people really live online and that whole side of their life was ruined in one big swoop idk what I'd do in their shoes, and I don't even play mmos.
I played a not very popular MMO but which I personally liked a lot, I invested time in it but I knew that sooner or later it would close, when the population went down I had to prepare myself, when it was finally announced the closure, even knowing it hurt me. I can't imagine the players who trusted WoW and so suddenly lost their accounts. politics/blizzard/neteasy aside, feel bad for the players.
Wildstar?
Silk Road?
SWG :(
That looked rather special, it's amazing seeing the gaming community come together and express themselves.
There will be always a last day for us in WoW, but it breaks your heart when you know that day has come
There will always be WoW. It sucks that they lost their characters... but, they can do private servers still. Literally nothing's stopping China from playing WoW again, unless China itself decides to outlaw WoW
@@kyotanaka920 blizzard is exploring new partners in China.
@@xxbrkdwnxx and while that's happening, I doubt it will happen. Blizzard's burned bridges with China to the point that NetEase would rather have dirt shoved in their face than to keep dealing with them.
Even then, apparently the tool that allows you to download your character prior to the shut down was faulty at best, so some people have to start from scratch anyway if at all.
And assuming they do find a partner... How long would it take to get Blizzard games back and running? I would assume it would be far quicker to get a PS of Dragonflight up and running.
This is one of the reason I stopped investing too much time on online based service game, like MMORPG. Eventually, live service will end especially after it's losing it's popularity due to many reasons. You just lost all your hard earned materials and level you accumulated for years. Endless hour grinding day and night. The only thing you could do was probably record video or take photos of it and only can say "it was fun while it lasted".
On the other hand, offline sp games? Like Fallout, Skyrim, and Prototype and other SP Offline game, all recent old games I just played back? I booted them up 5-10 years later and my savegame still the same as I left it years ago.
作为中国人，我感谢你们这群善良的有正义感的人类同胞谢谢你们给予中国玩家的支持！
❤❤
这B啥成分啊，你这是反串么。笑死
@@tolshinzhang3947 我是你爹
Totalmente de acuerdo bro.
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This was beautiful, sad, tragic and resonant all at the same time... I appreciate all the players convening for a Grand send off... Well done, minions. Well done.
Sorry that this happened to you guys. We welcome all of you on private servers
One of them is still logged in the game, and this is how Overlord has born
Overlord was Japanesse, not commie
@@ValleriaValentineakshually 🤓, a communist society is stateless, china is not actually communist and you fell for propaganda of their government which want people to believe that they are communist
Guys this isn't permanent, chinese players were able to back up all their history and account information with blizzard, and just need to wait patiently while blizzard seeks a new partner to bring the game back. it sucks, but this is not permanent at all.
Hopefully that's not the case we have to stop pandering to the chinese
That's how it would happen if it wasn't in China. Companies can't pick up the contract because they don't get to decide, CCP decides all policies. I don't know why you are imagining this scenario but this is a totalitarian & corrupt dictatoriship without access to the freemarket. Unless blizzard cave and give the correct apology/'volontary contribution' to the party members deciding for this, wow is gone.
Look up interview of foreign contractors during the construction of the new Beijing airport, the sheer scale of the corruption is insane. But that's just how it works.
@@akshayakshay2081 What do you mean by pandering to the Chinese? To have access to WoW? You sound like a flipping racist.
@@akshayakshay2081 CHYNA
@@akshayakshay2081 why do i get a red flag that seems like you just hate chinese in general. Dont know what your logic stems from tbh and i bet your argument about it will ultimately just result to you hating on chinese people.......wanna bet on it?
This just shows that its not worth getting too attached to pixels and that everything you worked for online can always be taken away. Cherish the memories you made playing the game, thats something that no one can take away from you.
For real. People think they are just going to keep everything. Unless its a hard disc with no internet required than it's not yours.
It's not just about getting attached to pixels though. It's about people losing part of their social life.
You can argue that if people are friends they can remain friends outside of the game but the game is a thing they share in common and what connects them and brings them together.
Wow players don't play for memories for real. They play everyday and are addicted to it.
They go to bed thinking what they should have done, and what they will do when they wake up, and turn it back on in the morning.
The amount of people I used to see log in and out to just farm Sha was enough to think shit I'm turning into one of these players that focus on a reset day.
Very true
@@nickpurdy69 so you wasted time after all.
It's almost surreal seeing "server final moments", only it's World of Warcraft.
My name is. Professor_baassiri from the game Dream of Mirror Online.
I started playing when i was 16. WOW came out shortly afterwards. I never got into WOW. too big.
But we had the same experience. I was there for the killing of the Aeria Games server. On that day, the server nearly crashed. In a small 5 gigabyte MMO, 7 hours ahead of America and 7 hours before Australia, it was still packed and everyone was there. My guildies, my enemies, my in game lover, the scammers, the bots.
It was heartwrenching. I was attached. I was part of the old guard.
A few years later, Steam would put this game on their platform. All hail GabeN.
Funny to see so many people making this political when it comes down to pure capitalism. Blizzard wanted Netease to support its services for another 6 months while it shopped around for a new partner in China. Netease (understandably) called it out as scummy and said no deal, since they would literally just be helping their competitors.
Some will say its just a game. But no, its a part of us. People that have spent 10 years on this game. Making friends, collecting mounts or pets. It has shaped large parts of peoples lives. And I really hope that blizzard can find a way to get these servers back up so that people can have that piece of their lives back.
10? What are you talking about? You do realise WoW was released in 2004, yes?
10 years is baby numbers
@@tessier_ashpool Exactly. When people tell me they started around Cata or MoP I think, "Wasn't that yesterday?" No idea why Eon thinks a decade is a long time in terms of WoW's history... I started in Nov 2006, which is very early, especially considering I was thirteen, but I have much respect for those that started in 2004/2005.
@@thitherword i think china had wow + it's expacs released after the rest of the world got theirs (hence why they're still on legion), however i think this was still admittedly longer than 10 years though i don't know how long
@@_Lis25 they might be on shadowlands then or the shadowlands prepatch and never got around to changing the login screen
Wow is not just a games ... its the experience you made over the last 15 years ... the friends , the Quests, the Dungeons, the Raids ... all the funny and all the sad Moments. You cant compare This to a 40 Hrs Game
Game
ive played ff14 off and on for the past couple years and i already have literal months of playtime i can only imagine how much time i would have if i played wow since it came out. rip.
@@Epolusgaming-gl2wn the times where you could just say "its a game chill" are gone man, this is peoples jobs now. whether in esports or streaming somewhere out there is a chinese asmongold dieing inside because years of work and effort are gone and he just might lose a huge chunk of his viewers.
@@clindsell6111 very, very few people actually play games for a living. Having a video game get shut down is pretty insignificant.
@@EK-rr2md tell that to the thousands of Blizzard employees who just lost their jobs
image having a spectral tiger of 10k and losing it because of the servers shutdown lol you never safe with the items you buy in any online game if the servers shut down you lost that money.
what loser puts money into games?
Blame their government for not allowing companies to operate independently.
Tesla runs the giga factory in Shanghai independently. That rule has been outdated for years.
This is a huge point most people aren't aware of. Blizzard would've absolutely stuck around if they weren't required to partner with a Chinese firm. Pretty disgusting too, because we know those firms get a HUGE amount of access to sensitive trade secrets and are able to reverse-engineer American and European products and sell an inferior ripoff for cheaper. Hurts everyone.
@@Mennion3 Oh look someone that doesn't know anything their talking about. Is Tesla a gaming company? No it's not. But guess what? Activision-Blizzard is and guess what? There are laws regarding those kind of companies in China. But I guess that's too hard for you to look up or understand.
@@Boo-jk3ii Thats factually inaccurate. Most firms are not operating independently and some firms have been able to buy their way out to operate independently. The fact you are defending this implies to be you have ties to the PRC. Ive done business in China and they are the least trust worthy country ive operated in.
@MrOutPerform I wasn't defending them. I was calling out the guy named Mennion3 who thinks that what you said was wrong. I know that for sure gaming companies must be partnered up with a Chinese publisher if they wish to do business in China.
Reminds me of the end of City of Heroes and the amazing send-off they players gave it amidst crashing meteors. *sniff* No matter what others think about the MMO you play the most, we all (players with a big time investment in a MMO) understand and connect with the sadness of something like this happening. My go-to MMO has places where I don't even do anything, just chill and admire the beautiful landscapes to escape from the urban madness of the real world. Losing that would be horrible. I hope that this can be resolved in the future.
City of heroes was so much fun.
I don't even play wow and it still hurts seeing this.
Please OSRS never shut down
All online games will one day shut down. That's why you should never get overly-attached to your characters in MMOs and live-service games.
@@du4lstrik3 i think its okay to get attached , everyone knows everything end (sometime suddenly). It makes no sense to live without getting attached to things just because you know it has a finite time. (also mmos have a community aspect as well so you lose that too)
@@leahsavoie3528 well spoken
@@du4lstrik3 yeah and our pets also will pass away one day, so you shouldn't get overly-attached to your pets
@@kringsom You shouldn't. You should grow a pair and learn to accept the inevitable.
I'm interested if some successful chinese player got transported into world resembling WoW the moment the access was lost
Never played WoW but y’all have my support that’s definitely heartbreaking
damn man this hit me alot harder then i thought it was going to. just the community these people built ripped away
My heart goes out to them, that really is terrible, hopefully there's an avenue in the works.
2024.8.1, WOW was back in China and all old account can still normally use.
Reminds me of the few last days on Nostalrius after the shutdown anouncement ! The whole server gathered in capitals and just hang in there helplessly
Atleast vanilla servers were all about the reset
as someone who loved City of Heroes, I feel this in my soul.
From the many MMO's that i have seen close down, being there till the final hour, City of Heroes was by far the most hurting one.
Broke my heart too. I'm glad CoH homecoming came around although it took several years for the code to be released to the public.
I fear for the mental health of those players..
Logging on after a rough day to pvp is one of the few things that can calm me down when shit gets bad. Game helped get me through my parents divorce and a host of other things. Sorry my foreign brothers and sisters, even if it comes back one day not everyone will return. Good or bad you decide.
Whats worse is it pushed all of them onto NA and EU servers so the hacking is 10x worse than it was when they were at least semi contained
We laughed ourselves when we wiped by silly mistakes, we shouted together when we won our first battleground fight, we patted Mr. Bigglesworth for good luck and we of course strip danced in goldshire. Today our world dies with all of our memories, I want to thank everyone that was a part of this great journey, it was a good run.
I can imagine myself being in such a situation and busting out all those fireworks that I saved up over the years.
It's lunar new year in wow, the fireworks vendors are everywhere
@@CoachJohnMcGuirk I'm sure they meant the event fireworks from all the different years. over the years during events different types of fireworks have come out, if you've been hoarding long enough i'm sure you'd be able to cycle through the entire progression of fireworks
Damn this hurts so much to watch i cant imagine the pain, rip for all chinese players
now imagine the iran !!! we even didn't access to this very game !
Why this happening? They chinese ppl have lost their accounts?
@@StarLight-kz9dq yes they have ! and idk exactly why but its kinda their network company could not deal with gaming companies
as well as Iran does ! we really love to play this game but we can not (:
@@salehfn1439cant use a vpn?
@@StarLight-kz9dq VPN will slow your connection and of course make your ms worse
and also they are not cheap for us !
normal ms : 190
and still we like to play but sure cant enjoy
You know there was at least 1 gold farmer still spamming until the last second
I have met the nicest people on the planet in wow, i’ve raided with idiots and the best in wow, i’ve had adventures with randos at 3 in the morning, and I have met my fiance in WoW. My heart will be broken and a piece of me gone if ever this would happen to me. It isn’t just a game.
RIP to those characters and may the players find happiness once again.
maybe the real loot was the friends you met along the way
Dang. All online MMOs will shut down eventually. For a lot of people out there it's like their whole world.