The Weekly Raid: What Shut Down MMO Do You Miss?

Each year myriad MMOs are added to an ever-expanding library, while older games are sentenced to the graveyard. Some MMOs are kept alive by their communities, or re-licensed to a new publisher, but others fade into the void where almost no trace of their virtual worlds can be found.

In 2015 a few game's server lights blinked off for the last time:

Soldier Front 2
Archlord 2
RaiderZ
Ether Saga
Hellgate: London
Dragon's Prophet
Asda 2
Triad Wars
Wrath of Athena

There are many games I remember fondly.  Looking back I was disappointed when Battlefield 2142's official servers were shut down (I'm a sucker for mechs). And while Star Wars Galaxies has innumerable private servers nothing quite captures the original giddy excitement of entering a galaxy far, far away. But the perfect basement LAN game was GunZ: The Duel. Unfortunately its sequel wasn't the same.

Exteel's shut down left the deepest wound. I had a blast gliding across maps in a pseudo-Gundam while jealously looking at players who could afford to rent better weapons. It was a blast to play locally and I spent hours grinding matches just for fun.

What's your favorite MMO that shut down? Let us know in the comments below!

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