When 18 years of war and adventure came to an end, the final moments were of peace and retrospection. At midnight, “when the servers were shutting down and you couldn’t even get to the screen with all your characters anymore; in that moment I did feel a little sad,” says long-time player Hu Yun, a 28-year-old office worker from Beijing, who took no screenshots of his last in-game moments because of the sadness he thought he’d feel if he ever looked at the images again. Some revel in nostalgia, sharing screenshots on NGA of their old in-game characters or videos of their last few moments before server shutdown