Inhuman. I can’t believe how they would fire everybody without telling them what’s going on, just shutting off all their accounts and leaving them hanging.

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    I’ve played ESO for a long time now. It was a great game but it’s likely that Microsoft just killed it and it will slowly die or at best they severely crippled it and it will regain its team and continue on. Either way the way MS handled everything was very poorly done and have lost the trust of their employees and consumers. Trust is hard to gain but easy to lose. Personally, I am not willing to invest time or money into a game that will not be able to update or take care of their servers.

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      I never really trusted any sort of MMORPG that wasnt able to be community hosted with my time. It always ends up being a rugpull.

      Edit: For that matter, add survival games/Open world multi-player games without community servers to that statement.

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        Yup. I REALLY hate those 11 year long scams. Hell, WoW is going at 21 years but it is gonna screw everyone over ANY! SECOND! NOW!

        Also jesus fucking christ, WoW can drink.

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          Actually, some talented people have managed to make locally/community hosted WoW a thing, so at least you have that backup plan :)

          No such luck for Destiny 1/2, how much time I spent there…

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            Yes.

            My point is that saying games that have been going strong for over a decade “always ends up being a rugpull” is… it doesn’t make it look like you understand what a “rugpull” is.

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              I suppose, sorry. I meant your progress that was meant to last forever being dragged out from under you (server shutdown). I guess rugpull might be more for something like scams.

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                Yes. Words have meaning.

                Online/live games having minimal support for EOL is very much a problem that most developers will agree with.

                Accusing any online game of being a scam is an inherently combative stance that paints the developers/publisher as the enemy and means no discussion can happen.