The worst thing to a game you love isn't if it is abandoned by the players, it is if it was shut down with no alteratives to play it at all.

@CrispyTurtl3

4 ай бұрын

Fuuuuck. I miss chromehounds.

@thatboringone7851

4 ай бұрын

This. There's an old flash browser game I used to play, Horse Isle, that still regularly gets about 30 players on one server (used to be normal to see around about that many on all of the servers when it was still new-ish, for reference). The people running it haven't shut down the servers despite discontinuing official support some time in 2020, so there are still workarounds that allow people to play it. Honestly, it's kind of better playing it now. It's less laggy and the people still there skew older, so there's less "I am 13 and everything is very serious" drama. With how the community around horse games is, it probably won't end up abandoned until the servers are shut down for good.

@nikoto9481

4 ай бұрын

I'm gonna be showing my age.. Earth beyond mmo in 2003 and auto assault car combat mmo 2006, Loved them both, sure Earth beyond has a private server but it's not the same as before. but both have had no good alterntives to play

@alexdhamp

3 ай бұрын

@@nikoto9481 I used to LOVE a game called Earthseige 2...

@eustace2c2

3 ай бұрын

@@nikoto9481 Showing my age in no chronological order. Asheron's Call, Star Wars Galaxies, Earth and Beyond, Tabula Rasa, City of Heroes, Necocron, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. All games I played before they were shut down.

This feels like a video from a 1+ million sub channel.

@phewiss3066

4 ай бұрын

Which is what he should be. But unfortunately, KZread doesn't favor infrequent uploads. No matter the quality.

@stevensalinas1994

4 ай бұрын

fr. He is a great editor.

@wildphilgaming

4 ай бұрын

Except for the 6 minute intro dissertation that really says nothing.

@Benzinilinguine

4 ай бұрын

NakeyJakey really did inspire a lot of people.

@shadowfax743

4 ай бұрын

Hey that means he will be huge when his channel pops off.

"I was surrounded by idiots and i felt right at home" Never has a single sentence described my MMO experiences so well, sometimes i just want to go back to a time when the internet wasn't so serious, and sometimes some MMOs still provide this feeling.

Playing games that are dead kind of sends a nostalgic feeling to you even if you never played it in the first place. You can hop into empty servers and think of the potential of it and how it was like for players who played it. It reminds me of the beauty of destruction. Everything around you is destroyed, sure there is nothing left but there is still a kind of peace that you can feel and the sense of there is nothing to look forward to gives you a feeling that honestly nothing else can replicate. Or maybe I am just yappin' too much.

@aiodensghost8645

4 ай бұрын

Go play Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Beauty in destruction indeed

@sharkx8176

4 ай бұрын

its definitly something i eager to experience and have experienced. its a weirdly beautiful experience

@bendytheinkdemon3949

3 ай бұрын

it does. i recently went back and played all the 360 versions of halo and seeing the old classic graphics of halo 1 and 2 brought back memories of playing the games with my brother. i had so many forge maps i built on halo reach and i wasn't able to transfer any of them to Master Chief Collection...i was only able save 7 of them from 2 other games...i miss the racetrack i built spanning the entire forge world map...the fun infection maps i built. all the clan maps i built for a long disbanded halo clan...and in all that time i even lost a close online friend...

@user-dw6xh6rt9n

2 ай бұрын

Yes you're definitely yapping too much.

tbh I think the best feeling is when you go back to a game, get that sad feeling because its dead and then find out theres still a very passionate fanbase keeping it alive either on one official server or on a private server and you get riled up all over again

@Kristopian

4 ай бұрын

I know right, this happens surprisingly often to me

@acronym.4328

4 ай бұрын

That's been happening a lot as of recently, and honestly, I want that to go further. Stuff like Quake 3 still being online and available on an old system like the Dreamcast is a good example.

"Born too early for Star Citizens final release" LOL.

@BreandanOCiarrai

3 ай бұрын

I love Star Citizen, but gotta admit that was funny as hell :D

@bftwdsj

2 ай бұрын

Take my up vote 😂

@mrsmith5114

2 ай бұрын

@@bftwdsj ♥

@GlidingBoulder

2 ай бұрын

Sick Burn 😂 3.18...... *Shudders

@alteans

Ай бұрын

well Star Citizen was built upon Chris's bullshit lies that is still kind of persist today, sort of🙄

Ah, an extrovert problem. All the games I feel nostalgic for from back in the day are single player and are just as lively today as they were then.

@Barret161

4 ай бұрын

Yes. I have rarely played games with others, even MMOs, and don't feel as nostagic towards those. I cherish the experience I had back then rather than the community that used to exist. However undeniably changed myself as well and find it hard to recreate the feeling from the old days. Also growing up in a small town with nobody around who shared the same interest in gaming only increased the feeling of isolation and now looking back the feeling of to have missed out. Love to the introverts

@PaulGuy

2 ай бұрын

Yep. I don't feel any need to show off my armor or fancy mount to anyone else. I don't think fun doesn't exist unless it's shared. I'm perfectly happy on my own.

@leechowning2712

2 ай бұрын

Honestly, as an introvert... I am more than slightly tempted to explore these near dead games, now that I will not be ambushed by bullies and factions wanting wars over my small piece of land.

Man seeing Archeage cuts me deep man! My favorite memory was using the grappling hook from our ship and dragging it all the way to Marianople! We even had game devs come and chat with us about managing to get our ship inside the city and had it strung up from a arch in the city! It was wild! Breaks my heart to see what happened to that game!

@ThornAmidstRoses

4 ай бұрын

I...think we were in the same guild actually. Or guilds with the same idea, I remember doing this VERY clearly.

@larannassalenthani7516

3 ай бұрын

Methinks everyone has done this at one point or another XD it's a rite of passage@@ThornAmidstRoses

@exodore2000

3 ай бұрын

Could never get archeage to run on my pc never did figure out why.

@psionicdreamer3302

3 ай бұрын

Not much has happened is the problem. Ive played archage for 8 years, still have patron actually. It got bad when the old company sold to a new one a few years ago, and now in the last few months they had a merge combining Archeage and Archeage unchained into one big server. Still see a bunch of people on, you can tell by the houses placed... but it truly isn't what it used to be.

@Eishallenfuchs

2 ай бұрын

Archeage was a great game with so many options and things to do. I liked diving for treasures (though I was a Firran ^^)or just flying around with my glider. Ok, the grind was sometimes a pain but with the right people it was still fun. Sadly it ended for me, when it was sold to Kakao Games and I could not get their game launcher started, no matter what their support suggested me to do, it didn´t work

What strikes me about the fall of Lotro as described from the eighth minute is that it mirrored how Tolkien described his phantastical world, the past is always more glorious, more noble, more pristine. The passage of time always comes with decay.

5:53 "Born to early to play Star Citizen's Final Release.." If I ever have kids, then my great-grandkids will be born to early to play the final release.

Empty, old, and/or forgotten games is a topic I love. There's just something about being the only person (or one of few) experiencing something like that that brings certain feelings. This video was a great watch diving into some of that.

It’s always bittersweet playing these games and just as sad trying to find videos on them. The only ones left still making videos are new people finding them with 100s of views at most or the old videos from when they had many players

@Kristopian

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, although sometimes you find great people in almost empty games, most of the time it's this feeling of bittersweet dread

Was genuinely sad when I realized the video was over. Nicely done!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

that’s such a nice compliment:) thanks Mr oven

I spent upwards of 1,000 hours in Lord of the Rings Online over around 10 years. I remember playing on an RP server (with my only experience of RP until that point being Garry's Mod servers, and a few encounters in World of Warcraft), and loving the atmosphere and interactions with other players. Like you said in the video, listening to midi files of popular songs both old and new from various player bands in game, all syncing themselves to the same song, drinking beers and everything outside and in-between. Lotro was great. I remember the lifetime sub going half price before the free to play the transition, and I immediately bought it. Still reaped the benefits years after doing so, had every expansion for free, and was able to enjoy the game a lot more until I finally stopped properly. Have even logged in as recently as 2023 just to update my account with the latest expansions and purchase new cosmetics should I ever return.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

I’m so envious of your lifetime sub! The game is in a great spot right now - it’ll be there waiting for you when you want to return. I’ve been enjoying the legendary servers lately, but Arkenstone has been my main live server for a while. Hope to see you around some time!

@chriswheeler8143

4 ай бұрын

@@merakimerakimeraki I have lifetime, but I was on an EU server that got closed, and I've been waiting (intermittently) for years for server transfers from it to be fixed.

When you talked about MW3 it hit me in the chest. So many memories, such simple yet entertaining game play loop and modes... Hopefully one day people will get fed up with the new garbage coming out and go back to the classic CODs and BFs

@Rinesmyth

3 ай бұрын

I remembered when it happened, Advanced Warfare came out, players where there in droves on MW3 one moment, and gone the next. It was heartbreaking in a way, just to see a game die so quickly like that.

i always forget how well made youir videos are but im glad every time i see a new video of yours in my recommended. you are truly a master of putting nostalgia into words. also another childrens mmo that came back to life from the community is fusionfall. got the axe cartoon network just as club penguin and toon town did with disney. sometimes bringing these things back to life can feel a bit like resuscitating a corpse, as happened with archeage, but i love that a lot pf these old childhood mmos are still alive and well in some form

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

I’m really glad it resonated with you! I’m not familiar with fusionfall but it looks awesome. I’ll go watch some gameplay now 😎

Similar to Club Penguin, another MMO called Clone Wars Adventures (CWA) was shut down back in 2014 - by Disney if I remember correctly. It had a very tight community that shared both a love for the game and the Star Wars The Clone Wars TV show that the game was basing itself on. It has now been revived and rebuilt as the “Clone Wars Adventures Emulator” with the old community slowly pouring back in as they become aware of it. They even have a very active Discord server for everyone. Some games don’t deserve to just die, and some communities are not willing to let go.

Your description of the empty Lord of the Rings Online perfectly describes why I've felt depressed when considering trying the Pirates of the Caribbean Online and Lego Universe revival projects. I feel it'll just make me terribly sad to see either of those games so empty and devoid of others. All player creativity, interaction, and friendliness gone. Especially were I to revisit Port Royal in Pirates Online, where I remember every single player converging for the final davy jones battle event on the day of shutdown.. Never again will I see the folks who showed me ways out of bounds, or set sail to do ship combat, as all that will be left for me is roving bands of NPCs to board. PVP battle arenas will be entirely untouched, unplayable. Every story beat meaningless, as there will be not a soul to talk about it with. No more confusedly trying bane shot on dire wasps and no more feeling like I was really fighting off a spreading undead horde in port royal. As for Lego Universe, I got into it in the last few vibrant years of childhood wonder towards games. It was the last world that really felt alive to me, and I feel it would genuinely hurt me to see it empty and lonely. All the convincing landscape and world building reduced to nothing and many thousands of players' houses and hours of building removed eternally. No other games have carried these feelings on, no other world has so sucked me in. Because unfortunately, I am extremely technically minded. The type of person to figure out exploits for flying using janky physics engines without even thinking about rather or not it should work, only knowing that it will based on my feel of the game. Almost always being right.. Unfortunately. I can't be sucked into these worlds anymore, I can't feel that sense of wonder. I only see a designed space with hardcoded mechanics and can't grasp how it used to seem so magical, so real. I used to be the kid who thought there was so much more hidden behind the closed static doors in video games, now I can't help but break it all down in my mind. I'll always miss those days, but I can still try to turn my brain off and get lost in games again. It's getting easier with the more complex newer titles. But it'll never quite be the same again. I'll always see individual models and how they interact on a mechanical level. Maybe one day I'll be able to relax and get lost in a handcrafted world once more, maybe it'll be magical again. I don't think I'll ever stop trying. Thanks for making this video, it really helped me put my thoughts on this in order.

@LegendaryTCLEMGaming

3 ай бұрын

I used to play POTCO it was fun it's back and active that I know of should go back to it

@rainbowbunchie8237

3 ай бұрын

@@LegendaryTCLEMGaming I wound up trying it. It's definitely very active, but not alive in the same way. Still fun, still worth playing, nostalgia did not rose tint this game for me. It's actually just as good as I saw it as a child, and is still one of the only MMORPGs I don't hate! I'm happy to say that my wife enjoys it, as well as some of my friends. It takes the edge off of seeing so few players in the world. :)

@LegendaryTCLEMGaming

3 ай бұрын

@rainbowbunchie8237 I've thought about going back to it I know Free Realms was another childhood game that got a remake same with Need for Speed world and I play them both too

Free Realms was also a game that was murdered. It could've lasted another 20 years.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

i have been looking for this exact game for over 10 years. thank you. I played this as a kid and still remember the smell of the flowers that were on my mom’s desk while I played. Wow, I’m going to dive back in to videos now

@MrJoeBlaze

4 ай бұрын

@@merakimerakimeraki Free realms died so early on too. Even though it was beloved by players, I played it as a kid too, I remember a lot about glitching into the outside of the free realms map multiple times, Finding secret areas and being in awe of the things I would find, and having a blast at player homes, messing around. The developers unfairly shut down free realms and let down the community.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

@@MrJoeBlaze ugh, sounds like a sad story. I’m going to need to watch the nerdslayer video on it :)

Bro, this video was immaculately executed. I was shocked to see you are still on the rise. Keep it up!! I've been working on a liminal games video (probably why I was shown this) and this was very inspiring. Can't wait to see what's next!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so so much! Best of luck on your video, that sounds like a great topic

Really good video man! Playing abandoned games that I used to love just fills me with the deepest sense of longing & nostalgia. Also, I could listen to you talk about these games for hours despite having not played most of them :)

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

glad you enjoyed, thanks apu! and thanks for the kind words :) more of me talking about games you don’t know soon!

"We are living in a long ago forgotten era. Time has moved on without us, like everyone else. Despite the fact the world you knew five, six or ten years ago are still intact. No further decayed or maintained than the day you and everyone else left it. Its still there...waiting for you." A quote i read from an old Call of duty 2 video discussing old abandoned maps. Sadly i dont remember the name of the author as he too, has been lost to time.

@TheL1arL1ar

4 ай бұрын

It’s a natural part of life…as much as it hurts.

This tugged on my heartstrings. Lotro i picked up but never even maxed. I just farmed. Man the memories of running around and seeking pipweed seeds just to smoke them in the shire as soon as i harvested. I never was good at fighting in Mmos. I left wow because i couldn't get anything right. So when i found out i could farm its all i did. But i left soon after i picked it up because of real life stuff. I miss that game. Thank you for making me remember.

@joe77andino

4 ай бұрын

LOTRO just released a expansion , in Nov, I doubt it's actually dead , the High end players are probably all raiding dungeons .

This is a good lesson in moving on with life. There are real people who get caught up in nostalgia and never move on. Never build anything new.

@TalesOfWar

4 ай бұрын

Kind of sounds like Simon Pegg's character in The Worlds End.

@_dh

4 ай бұрын

dont talk about H1Z1 like that bro.

@ubcroel4022

4 ай бұрын

I don't know, I enjoy nostalgia.

@azizalfa752

4 ай бұрын

I don’t want anything new i like my old time new things are trash most time

@SolThax

4 ай бұрын

The older you get your past memories grew even more important than the present. This is why old people simply stuck in time.

That was genuinely beautiful, I look forward to checking out more of your videos

Such an amazing concept for a video pulled off beautifully. Nice job man!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, it really means a lot

This vid just pop off on my feed. Is amazing. Great job and that nostalgia you made me feel. Damn. Im actually thinking on making a video myself about my exp with gaming. And doing research i feel the same as you rediscovering that games i grew up with. Great video my man. New sub

From 2008 to 2010 I used to play FarCry 2 online on PS3 every day, it was amazing playing on player created maps or even having fun on the standard maps, helping my team carry the flag to our base. Today the servers are still online but it's a ghost town walking the maps alone, maybe getting 1 lobby going on a weekend and the player created maps hasn't been working for years and never been fixed as the developers abandoned the game years ago. I wonder what all those people who used to play are doing now. It feels like the end of an era lost to time, never to return.

@hollybouchardsmith4941

3 ай бұрын

Loved the map maker

This is a masterpiece, it’s engaging all the way through and just really well made in general. This is awesome!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

thank you!

yeah this is wildly high quality i’m subbing!! awesome work

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! More to come

Another beautiful video. Feels like this should have a million views!

They need to make a wreck it Ralph 3 where this is shown as the reality

An old MMO I played back in high school I'm amazed is still going strong is RuneScape. The original Runescape as I understand isn't around anymore but an updated version is still thriving. I could be wrong on that.

@ericaj922

4 ай бұрын

There’s actually Old School RuneScape, which saved the original and you can play it. It’s actually still active! There’s even a mobile app.

@mellowasiam

3 ай бұрын

I kept thing of Runescape when I saw lotro, talking about the dead friends list. I also played Lotro very briefly with a college friend, but WoW owned my soul at that point.

@FuraFaolox

23 күн бұрын

RuneScape currently has two versions. OldSchool RuneScape is a re-released 2007 RuneScape 2. Then RuneScape 3 is the other one.

As a fan of niche franchises I can relate to this, thanks for sharing your experience with us it always nice to hear about others journeys in gaming Since this is the comment section though I do have one piece of advice, can you put the music used and games featured in the video as small text in the corner? Some of the music and footage is really familiar and I hate not knowing where its from 😅. Thanks and keep making great content!

These empty multiplayer maps are always my argument for why bots should remain a part of shooters, multiplayer or not. It's nice to have something of an impression of what these maps looked like when they where alive. And growing up in your first MMO is one of the gaming experiences I'll always remember.

@mavericksetsuna7396

4 ай бұрын

I have no problem with that as long as its a toggle.

@FuraFaolox

23 күн бұрын

The way the WW1 Game Series handles bots is one of the reasons I like it so much. The games aren't very popular, so the bots are necessary. They fill up empty spots so the games are still full and fun.

I just want to say thanks for mentioning Modern Warfare 3. To this day I can't understand why that game is so forgotten. I LOVED MW3 so much, everything about it was so good from the campaign to the addictive survival mode to multiplayer. I just can't let go of the old cods, a symptom of living in the past perpetually i guess

@MrRed_2205

4 ай бұрын

I sometimes still play survival mode with my GF, it's just too fun, it also had a great ending to TF141's story

@zzBaBzz

4 ай бұрын

cod 2 and 4 are the best cod games to this day, so i get what you mean.

@TheL1arL1ar

4 ай бұрын

MW 3 was the last call of duty I sank hours into.

I very rarely comment to appreciate a video but this is an exception. I can't wait for your channel to get the attention it deserves

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

thanks so much, I appreciate the kind words

The MW2 and BO ones get to me. the rooftop one was amazing. One of my favorite levels and crazy to see it empty.

This video hit me with bittersweet emotions. Honestly... thanks.

fascinating video. but the whole time i was thinking "wait LOTRO is on steam" but guess you were just unlocky to always be online when noone else was.

woke up to this absolute banger of a video and did not disappoint!! can always count on meraki to make absolutely incredible vids :D

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much :) glad you liked it

Your channel reminds me of Internet Pitshop, I like these kinda videos. Keep up, subbed.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Good to have you here :)

I enjoyed your calm well placed narrative.I looking forward your other content as well.

this was a great video, despite me having not played majority of the games you mentioned i could understand everything you were describing, it's truly a shame for games that had so much going for them lose what made them so great or just be abandoned altogether

How does a video like this only have 931 views. Like what @nikatname said, this is not the quality of work I expect from a small channel. Watching this reminds me of a few games I use to play. ASTA online was my first MMO I really got into. Sadly that game is now gone. Doesn't even have a steam store page. Though looking at the community tab, every now and then a new post will crop up about someone saying they miss the game. The game had its issues, but I enjoyed it. I played as a healer, despite playing solo for the later half of my experience there. Fights would take awhile since I didn't have much in the way of DPS compared to other classes, but I never worried about dying. I couldn't die.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

thank you so much for the kind words! and ASTA… that’s a trip down memory lane. I’m not sure I ever played, but I’ve definitely watched videos about it before. Wow. Add it to the list of abandoned games!

Mabinogi: Released 2007, still played by thousands of people regularly. Maybe not _many_ thousands, but it's very much still an active game and active playerbase, especially in Korea. Even if parts of the game are abandoned, I'm glad it never quite died like these games did.

Having recently gotten back into gaming, after a long absence, I'm happy to be gaming with my old friends. That said, I've lost many along the way and I find myself longing for old MMOs I used to play such a LOTRO and SWG. But sometimes, even yearning for old shooters I used to play to pass the time, back in a time when the potential of the gaming industry seemed limitless. This was an amazing video essay and I'm glad to have gone along for the ride. Please keep up the good work...

This might've been the fastest I've subscribed to someone, it's really well made, keep it up!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

So glad you liked it! Thanks for subscribing :)

I have played MW3 for so much time as a kid/teen, I know *perfectly* what you talked about the game! What a great video! 👏👏👏

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

Liminal space in gaming, no other people in a multiplayer game world is haunting

I understand how you feel about the emptiness of what used to be once great games. For me, I grew up in a time where LAN parties existed in addition to online play. For me, the world I miss the most is Defiance (2013-2022). I was a fan of the game and show. Right now, the fans are trying to bring Defiance back, because the fanbase is still there, but the numbers got split between two different copies of the same game. We've managed to be able to access the world once again without NPCs, enemies, missions and other players. One user is using the game's assets (models, textures and sounds) to recreate the game so that players cna play again (it's still far away from being released, but they're doing their best). But all I can say is to not ever forget those memories. Hold onto those times you played.

Absolutely beautiful script. 1000% poetic. Best way to start the new year, thanks Meraki!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

thanks so much :)

This vid was excellent.. keep on trucking bro 💪

i loved this video alot, it made me think hard about the past and all the games i used to play with people i may not talk to or may not even be around anymore and i would never know because i only knew them from the games.

You, sir, are a poet. Fantastic video. This describes what we all feel about our first games and I was imagining EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot and City of Heroes as you wandered through your favorites. Fortunately EQ and CoH are both thriving again from fan based servers. Watching your nostalgia triggered mine. Games truly are living worlds unto themselves and when we become part of them, the people we share them with are family. When that world dies it's like losing a loved one. Thanks for sharing this with us, very well done.

Awesome man, great job on this!

I will never forget the day my dad and I could afford our first boat in Archeage. Seafaring in MMOs is an underutilized mechanic. I still play WoW to this day with him but I haven't touched Archeage since 2016~

Every gangsta till he puts a quickscope montage on a video about abandoned online games

All cods on Xbox always have full lobbies and theres a big community revolved around them its almost like they have always been the most recent cod

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

That makes me happy :)

This video was amazing and really well made. Had me taking a trip down memory lane with all the games I grew up on and that are no more. Gaming truly isn’t what it used to be but I’m hopeful another golden age will come.

Amazing video !!! amazing quality ! you deserve more subs and views!

One of the causes of games being abandoned is the planned obsolescence by the studios. They throw massive support behind "the new multiplayer" and quickly phase out support for "the previous game(s)" to get players to play the new game. The other cause is that even if the studio keeps supporting the game, eventually players lose interest in a game that is no longer being developed and therefore you end of doing the same things over and over again.

Nice quickscopes, bro. 😂 Great quality video, too. I usually check the description of videos with titles like this to see if there will be a list. Sometimes I know the titles, and even more often I don’t, but it’s still fun to look.

I was never a fan of MMOs and thus never played them, but I still did get to experience the loneliness of abandoned servers that were once meant to hold thousands of people. When I was a kid, I played on various Minecraft servers with friends for hours upon hours every day. The maps were so full of people, you had to spam click to get into a round of SkyWars and even than you’d constantly get kicked off again for breaching the player limit. It was insanity with how overrun all the minigames were and how many players basically battled each other to even get the chance to actually play any of them. Unfortunately, since the Bedrock Edition of the game started gaining traction, the servers on the Java Edition started to die rather quickly, the player base dwindling year after year, until even the most famous of all Minecraft servers became a wasteland. Now don’t get me wrong, Minecraft still has millions of people playing it and some servers just moved over to Bedrock and only shut down their Java counterparts due to the lack of players. But it still hurts me to see the maps that I once encountered so many people in be so desolate and abandoned. Most minigames have become unplayable, as no players ever join and it feels so lonely to apparently be the only person left waiting. Some servers just outright don’t exist anymore, like Mineplex, which literally just disappeared over night with no explanation whatsoever, leaving the small player base it still had confused. And to think it was once the biggest and most beloved Minecraft server of all. Not being able to go back to even just look at the map anymore is heartbreaking. All we have now are our own screenshots and old KZread videos to remember it by.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

That’s so sad to hear - thank you for sharing. I would love to have included that in the video.

Oh man new video always feels like an event! Thanks fellah

I had a friend when I was 7 years old and we played Minecraft together. He was 3 years older than me but him, me and my older brother had great times together. When a new year started and I sat in class, I realised my friend wasnt here anymore and I had no way to contact him or anything like that. I am now 16 years old and I miss those Minecraft times so much. I made great memories. But to this day, I never met my friend again...

LOTRO, and by studio association, D&DO, suffered a sad fate, which was Turbine's incompetence in how to run MMOs. With several server merges and splits and merge agains, they ripped guilds and friends apart, messed up transfers and told players to pay to have their characters restored or repaired. it was a total desaster. after having to rebuild our guild in D&DO for the third time and them announcing another server merge, we decided to say goodbye and split up in all kinds of directions. They were great games with an incredible story and quest writing, destroyed by bumbling fools of managers. Archeage was kinda sad too.. I was playing there with a handful of friends, and after a few weeks I couldn't log in anymore. Contacting support, I got told that an account with my name doesn't exist, and nobody could be bothered to actually find out what had happened.

This video was amazing, just found ur channel ❤

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

So glad you liked it :)

Archeage was really something else. Most stressful MMO to play a healer in and that was sick. My favorite story from it was raiding an island owned by a french guild with my friends. After killing the farmers we found a tiny plot of purchasable land they had missed, bought it, planted a flag on it and uploaded an image of the american flag for it. Then we dragged our harpoon ship onto land and used poisonous cannonballs to gas the players forming up to resist us in their homes. One of those stories you can't really tell people offline.

Good video man. Well put.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Meraki the videos you make are so high quality, ever since the c14 video ive been hooked to your style. Please do not quit youtube.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

I won’t! I love making videos, I don’t do it for the views

@Diamond-zd1cl

4 ай бұрын

@@merakimerakimeraki That explains the quality over quantity, can't wait for the next banger.

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

@@Diamond-zd1cl 😏 already in the works

I appreciate all that went into this man, good on you

Your video is always a treat. Keep it up 😁

I’m Glad that TitanFall 2 isn’t Abandoned

@sl4sshh

4 ай бұрын

bro same its my main game rn

@jacobcarpenter5309

2 ай бұрын

But it is alot smaller than it was and it hurts a bit lol

Absolutely great video, hit my nostalgia too. Lotro section made me feel like I had nostalgia for it even though I never played it, I was playing vanilla wow. But I do find the idea of being surprised they aren’t updating the old cod game odd. Games back then (aside from mmos) were never supposed to be live service, couldn’t do it with a disc. And that’s the way games should be (again aside from mmos) and is why partially why bg3 had the success it did. Again absolutely killed this video good job dude, gonna go cry in the corner over Star Wars galaxies

Never heard of most of these, but damn they all looked so beautiful

This video made me sad because I've lived the exact same thing, but with different games. Hearing music from Final Fantasy XI Online really brings the feels. Same with Battlefield 2/1942 on the PC around the same time. *sigh* Time sure does fly...

awesome video! You're delivery had from word one. GREAT JOB!

i never played archeage but reviewing it’s systems i got really intrigued. now with ashes of creation being in open development i‘m looking forward to playing a game as open like archeage was in the future.

You'll have Deja-Vu later in life. The empty lost feeling. All your friends, family, entertainers, and people you use to know passed away.....that's lonely.

Great video brother 🤙🏽🔥❤

Incredible video, thank you!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

thanks :)

"As soon as the game becomes pay to win, the community abandons it" War Thunder would like to speak with you.

This was a well made video. Whenever I think of dying games, I think of LOTR online and playing it during the steepest decline in it's player base before they merged the servers. I think of matchmaking in Star Trek Elite Force, a game that wasn't killed by it's player base, but rather by core gameplay code being incompatible with a windows update. I think of my return to WOW, finding my once massive guild of tens of thousands of people empty. Not a single player online in months. Going through the once packed streets of Stormwind nearly empty, the NPCs outnumbering the players 10 to 1 in Orgrimmar, the shockingly empty market of Ironforge. Just like LOTR Online, yeah those game still have players, but they're pale shadows of what they once was. I grew up in the American Southwest, and it literally gives the same feeling you have when visiting a ghost town. And this video conveyed that feeling beautifully.

Sup man nice to see y’all again

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

same to you!

Meraki, I don't know if you are reading this or ever will but the summery of what is below this is: I think this is the best video I've ever seen. With that being said I will now try to encapsulate my thoughts about this video without writing what may as well be a book. The first thing that comes to my mind when watching this video is the pacing. Most of the other videos I watch are fast paced but this video was in my opinion was slow paced. And I don't mean that in a bad way. It is refreshing to me when I see a video like this in terms of pacing. Its pacing is more like a movie than a KZread video. Most videos on platforms like KZread Shorts are very overstimulating and after watching them I feel in a sense empty and like I gained no knowledge or in a sense "good feeling" from it. But after watching this video, while it is definitely not educational left me with a feeling like I gained something from it. The Second thing that came to my mind was the Music. The placement of songs like subwoofer lullaby was very well done to me adding more feeling to the video and emotion. Placing the quiet bit of subwoofer lullaby with the part of the video where you were talking about lotro having 0 players online and being alone in the world was amazing well done to me. Placement like this of the music continued through out the video and before it giving it a intentional ambiance of emotion. The last thing I'd like to talk about is the jokes, S tier jokes (in my opinion) like the Wii having mental trauma after playing Call of Duty: Black Ops, You talking to a very receptive wall, Robert Baren wondering when the next comically large pie will be throw in his face, offering mmo toxicity to kids, those jokes and others are amazing. ps nice quickscopes

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

thank you so much for the kind words :) I’ll come back to this later

always love your videos

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I’d have given some gold to your tractor in a heartbeat

I love the idea of conflicts in game being solved in court by the players

This hit me hard with melancholy about games I used to play and enjoy. Even some trash ones. It was a more careless time with less todo and less other distractions. Today so many games feel soulles and will be easily forgotten and still they try to be these infinite timesinks. I feel depressed, but in a hopeful kind of way. Thank you.

Awesome video that hits me heavy with the liminal and melancholy!

Very very very good at story telling. Keep it up =)

THis is fascinating, thanks for putting this out.. digital liminal spaces are trippy. I generally play single player, so it doesn't much change for me and I can't have this nostalgic experience, but I appreciate it for those who can.

your channel so underrated!

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Hey Meraki, nice quick scopes

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

YES THANK YOU

good o have u back meraki

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

thanks homie 😁

It's crazy to me to listen to him talk about MW3 2011 like that, I remember having the same feelings about Halo 2....in 2010 when the servers were shutting down and being outright depressed.

Great video. I felt the same as you for a MMORPG, not LotRO but a cheap clone of Dark Age of Camelot called Regnum. I tried logging in many years after its popularity had faded and it was literally a ghost town. All my clan members "last online: 8 years ago". A sad memorial to our dead childhoods.

16:00 looking at those maps... i have memories from LAN parties in the late 2000s - was that the game where you can cheat your player profile to 50 or so to get all guns?

Also a good day when Meraki upload's ❤

@merakimerakimeraki

4 ай бұрын

Always a good day when bungalowo comments!!