Could an era be about to end?įortunately, players are already swinging into action to work around the shutdown, keeping their worlds alive and detached from GameSpy's umbilical cord. For over a decade now, players have poured creative energies and roleplaying enthusiasm into these micro-MMOs. Because of this, Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 will find that their persistent player-made and -run worlds are in danger. When GameSpy Technology goes offline on May 31st, dozens of EA games that relied on the platform for multiplayer functionality will lose their online components by June 30th. It's a online apocalypse the likes of which we have not seen in quite some time, although you might be forgiven for not having heard of it before now.
At the end of next month, dozens of online worlds will flicker and vanish with the flip of a switch.
