Servers are closing. Okay.
Attempts to stave it off won't. Okay.
Lights out presumably tomorrow at midnight PST. Okay.
What will bug me almost more than the game turning off in general, is if NCSoft won't even pony up some form of final (even if trivially scripted) sequence that at least tries to imply that Paragon City is now saved from crime and we can all go elsewhere where superheroes are needed more.
Something like: all the criminal NPCs fade away from the maps at 10 minutes until midnight, and large gatherings of the NPC population to celebrate occur in every zone, or at least the major hubs.
I know, I know, the devs are all gone now and I am sure NCSoft had neither the foresight nor the inclination to give a damn about doing anything other than unceremoniously pulling the plug at midnight. It would have been very easy to have some scripting done for this sort of thing.
Game companies like this one seem to have no awareness at all of the responsibility of not only creating a world to inhabit, but also how to destroy it. At least make a (feeble) attempt to send off the entire player base with an end that shows the city is saved, not just petering out of existence.
