Digital Apocalypse: How Players Faced the End | Retrospect Ep.216
Send us a text In this week’s episode we discussed a fascinating digital experiment exploring how players confront the end of the world, not in real life, but inside the online universe of ArcheAge. As the game’s servers faced a scheduled shutdown, its community transformed the final days into a living laboratory: a place where grief, creativity, nostalgia, and chaos collided. We explore how players coped, connected, and created meaning in the face of a virtual apocalypse, and what their reac...