DAoC: Phoenix Falling
On Saturday, July 24, 2021, the long-running and also very preferred _ Dark Age of Camelot _ freeshard Phoenix was introduced to be closing by the end of August. In a Phoenix discussion forum article labelled "The Sky Is Really Dropping This Time", gruenesschaf, one of the designers behind the freeshard, clarified the thinking behind the decision as well as the continuing to be timeline for the server. Eventually, gruenesschaf clarified in an instead fatalistic style, every online game-- freeshard or otherwise-- reaches a point after the hype has actually waned and also gamer passion has wound down when the player populace is just also tiny to necessitate the server's continued presence. Certainly, to contradict this point, the official live _ Dark Age of Camelot _ ( DAoC ) servers are still running and also have been up since the video game was initially introduced in 2001. When Phoenix was launched in 2017, almost four years earlier, the server was hailed as a fres...