bilb

Yeah, he's pretty hot

Kind of a drama lightning rod. Fair warning.

Agreed, and I don't intend to stop at the moment. When I wrote "close it" I meant registration, sorry about the ambiguous language.

I'm aware of the risk, but so far the captcha seems to have prevented any mass sign-up, and none of the few other existing accounts so far have any activity. That said, since I have no intention to support a user base anymore, I probably should close it anyway.

I run my own instance that technically does have open registration, but I can't really recommend anyone actually sign up to use it. It's not running on very powerful hardware, and my commitment to keeping it running 24/7 is "as long as it stays convenient and interesting." There are probably many, many of those. But there are a good collection of second and third tier instances now as well, I'm not to worried about .world's popularity so long as they don't do something like switch to a federation allow-list rather than a block list.

Personally, I think it's okay for things to disappear sometimes. Nothing is permanent. I have no anxiety about this.

The bigger deal is that development by this team has been halted, not that it will be a little harder to find a trustworthy download of the most recent version.

I think I'm remembering this early patch that finished several questlines that seemed to just end:

https://www.bandainamcoent.com/news/elden-ring-patch-notes-v1-03

Several side quests were unfinished or broken at launch, weren't they?

Oh, that wouldn't be the same! I'll have to supplement my vehicle with incredibly smug bumper stickers.

(I don't mind being downvoted, but I think I should point out for the sake of not making someone's depressive mood worse that this and my previous comment in this thread were meant to be humorous and I'm not actually this insane. I don't expect my Bolt EUV to seriously impress anyone. I do like driving it though!)

I drive an EV and I always tell people not to buy one for this or that reason. The truth is that I don't want too many other EVs on the road because I bought it just to feel superior to others, and I can't do that if everyone else also drives an EV.