{"id":97638,"date":"2016-07-05T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97638"},"modified":"2016-07-05T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:41:25","slug":"watch-the-epic-last-few-minutes-before-a-game-world-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97638-watch-the-epic-last-few-minutes-before-a-game-world-dies","title":{"rendered":"Watch the epic last few minutes before a game world dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the saddest parts of gaming is finally saying goodbye to one of your favourite games.<\/p>\n<p>This is what thousands of gamers did on 1 July, when the Planetside servers were shutdown for good.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and foes alike stood side by side for the event, with the 13-year long war (the game launched in May 2003) drawing to a close as a massive meteor shower finally claimed the game world.<\/p>\n<p>You watch the final moments before the server shut down ,and some of the best moments from the final day, in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tOi-vlzRHEw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>How do you feel about permanent server shut downs? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD Radeon RX 480 ultimate guide \u2013 pricing, benchmarks and specifications\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97122-amd-radeon-rx-480-ultimate-guide-pricing-benchmarks-and-specifications.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Radeon RX 480 ultimate guide \u2013 pricing, benchmarks and specifications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Windows 10 launches most intrusive pop-up yet\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/97570-windows-10-launches-most-intrusive-pop-up-yet.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 launches most intrusive pop-up yet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is what you need to know before buying a router\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95631-this-is-what-you-need-to-know-before-buying-a-router.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is what you need to know before buying a router<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the saddest parts of gaming is saying goodbye to one of your all-time favourites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,20094,469,10799,183,18917],"class_list":["post-97638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-die","tag-mmo","tag-server","tag-video","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97642,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97638\/revisions\/97642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}