By now, we all know that Nintendo, mercilessly, pressed the button that shut down the servers for Nintendo 3DS and WiiU, leaving anyone who wants to play online without services to games like ‘Mario Kart 7’, ‘Pokémon X/Y’ or ‘Xenoblade Chronicles X’. It has been three weeks since, indeed, the curtain closed on a good number of games, but that hasn’t stopped a few players from staying connected, against all odds.
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There are currently nine players connected to Nintendo’s online service checking out something fascinating: what happens when a game dies. Lcd101, for example, is the only online player of Splatoon since day 9. And their determination is to last there as long as possible, in an tireless search for people on the other side that will never come, exploring until they find out when it will stop being updated.
Another user noticed that on April 30th it was planned for the maps of Splatoon to stop rotating, after doing so every four hours for years. And, of course, Lcd101 was there to witness it. They can’t currently go to the lobby because that server closed, but they can still see how the maps have remained frozen in time (and will continue to do so for the next ten years). The store, for some reason, still changes the items every day.
Yesterday, after 24 days completely alone on WiiU, Lcd101 gave a rather brief report on Twitter: “No news”. And everything points to it continuing like this for ten years, enslaved among four maps that will never rotate again and that he will never be able to play again. How long will this lonely Nintendo Robinson endure? According to him, he is prepared for the experience to last a lifetime. We’ll see if he can handle it.