Gary Whitta

No more, you know, you can't buy anything new or whatever.

We're going to start kind of phasing this down.

And then eventually comes the moment where they finally turn off the lights.

And I always find it to be a really, really sad...

Moment when this happens, I've said a million times to me, the games that are meaningful for me, I don't think I'm thinking of them as a game that I play, but as a place that I go, like I go to Arrakis, you know, or I, you know, or I feel like I'm on the Normandy, you know, and I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to, um, the fucking Citadel.

And I just feel like I'm in these places and you get more, I'm in Azeroth, you know, and you feel like you, you feel like you're in these places.

And so when that world goes away, um,

There's something really sad about it.

I'm old enough to remember, back in the day when everyone was chasing EverQuest, this is even pre-Warcraft, I think, Microsoft had one called Asheron's Call.

Okay.

And it didn't survive in the long term.

And that was one of the earliest things I can remember where you always have these really sad moments where they know the end is coming, right?

And there's very few people left, which is why the game is closing down.

But the people that left are the ones that care about the game the most, right?

And that's the saddest thing.

And you'll always see these final moments where everyone will congregate in a town square or whatever.

Yeah, yeah.

say their goodbyes and like, you know, whatever.

And then they finally flip out the lights and it's, there's a sadness to it.

You know, it just inherently is kind of sad.