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In the past two days, I have seen an interesting news, a report from the extranet Gamesradar.
It happened on the US server. It is said that after Nintendo officially closed the 3DS and Wii U servers on April 9 and stopped new players from logging in, there are still 4 loyal players who have stubbornly insisted on being online, which can be called "cyber nail households".
（简介写着“The final Splatoon 1 NN player”）
The most famous is probably Lcd101, a Sprague player. For nearly 40 days after announcing the official shutdown, he reported his "survival status" on Twitter every day, just like the coercive brother in the seclusion.
Yesterday, when he tried to match online, the game didn't respond for a few minutes, which scared him a lot: "I was shaking and thought it was finally over, but suddenly the game started loading again." ”
Now that he has lasted 41 days, he is already a little tired, and he will soon have to prepare for his birthday tomorrow.
There are currently three other players in different games:
Fishguy6564 in Mario Kart 7 (3DS), SlitherySheep in Super Mario Manufacturing, and Omoroid in Xenoblade X.
In short, the gang intends to stay until the day when they are kicked off the line by the authorities.
Before 9:55 p.m. ET on May 14, there was actually another player named Marioiscool246 in the lobby of Mario Kart 7, but unfortunately his 3DS account was finally "frozen".
Marioiscool246 withdrew from the cyberathon after leaving a posthumous photo on Twitter, and Fishguy6564 became the last living player of Carriage 7 (US server).
On the other side, Fishguy6564 also deployed 2 robots to try to make the game lobby look a little lively.
This reminds me of a very popular light animation called "Overlord" at station B a few years ago.
The story of "Overlord" is a VRMMORPG about to be closed, and the protagonist is reluctant to wait for the system to force a logout in the game, but he travels to another world with his character and NPC.
Don't talk about the plot, just talk about the setting. When this kind of game is about to be closed, the scene of the ashes player "boxing" himself and silently waiting to be kicked offline is quite common in online games. Players of the national server "World of Warcraft" must be quite familiar.
Of course, national server games generally have to be closed when their operations expire, and the official will kick everyone offline at that point. But in the U.S., I don't know why, as long as there are people in the servers of many games, they will continue to hang.
This 3DS Nintendo network falls into the latter case, and players are always online, keeping the servers running - I don't know if there are relevant laws or regional customs, I don't know much about this.
A closer example is also in the United States. Around 2018, "Star Warframe" had a very out-of-the-circle meme on the Internet, called Fortuna 69 (Fortuna is the goddess of fate in Roman mythology).
At that time, the game's massive DLC "Fortuna" had just been launched, attracting hundreds of thousands of players to the new Orb Vallis, which quickly overwhelmed the servers.
Since each server can only carry 50 people online at the same time, this server is full, and a new server will be automatically opened, and the number of servers in the United States reached more than 180 at the peak of the online scene.
Of course, this number quickly began to drop with the heat, until it stopped at 69 - because server 69 is always logged in, and there is no such thing as a server disappearing after all players leave.
For example, if you have 17 servers, then it's 1, 2, 3...... 16、69。 If there is an 18th server, then the 18th is still "Fortuna 69".
Because there are always players logged in to keep it alive, always busy. Later, Fortuna 69 became a meme, similar to a "never-stopping" cyber nightclub, with people online 24 hours a day.
每个进入的玩家都会互相打招呼说“Nice”“Very Nice”——既有庆幸挤进了服务器，又有对Fortuna 69屹立不倒的感叹。
The biggest enemy to keep Fortuna 69 up to date is the system update — you need at least 1 player to be online, and then the other person will be on the server as soon as the game is updated. It's a pity that the middle force failed once, and 69 is gone.
Before 2023, the local server list in the United States had a maximum number of 36 for about 1 year, and players couldn't hold on for long, until the new expansion went live and the number of people was enough to renew to 69.
"Star Warframe" also has a lot of player relays. Nintendo is different, after the official announcement of the closure of the 3DS and Wii U servers, the only 4 players left belong to the Lonely Warriors, and I don't know how long they can last.
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