Creepy MMO, abandoned world explored after 20 years by YouTuber

Active Worlds is an MMO from 1995 that nobody really plays anymore. That’s where this story begins.

[shatens]

It feels like it's a bullsh*t. If he was streaming live, I bet that somebody just refreshed old account and login to meet him.

[Malokii]

Could be, but ive seen in many mmo games AI which are "smart" enough to predict your typing, and they have answer to your next question. Maybe programmer wanted to put easter egg in case when nobody played this game anymore and someone after those years login and then this person would show up, anyway who knows.

[shatens]

Give me a title of that games where NPCs are that smart :o

[cmgs]

It says vinny at the end, two posibilities,
1. Troll
2. AI that can access player database and call them with their name, 4th wall breaking basically.

[Malokii]

for example:
Realms of Arkania: Online from 1999 has good ai which you cant really tell if this is npc or real player, but there is many more games with good Ai, at least when it comes to speak between players.

[shatens]

Did you mean Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny? There's no game Realms of Arkania: Online, lol

[frostypants]

The music was cheesy too.

[SuberMedic]

YouTube creator of the video stated that it was just some guy role-playing with them, "rather creepily" he added. No NPC or anything.

[shatens]

Yes. The creepy is why this server is still running? :D

[MrsNesbitt]

How are these servers still running if there's nobody playing?

[frostypants]

@MrsNesbitt, because someone was too lazy to pull the plug on the server and it's just sitting in a room somewhere, chugging away and forgotten. Probably.

[shatens]

I'm wondering how many ghost servers like this one exists in corners of the Internet :o

[TWB]

Not exactly a game server but some months ago I discovered that the original websites for this old PS1 game were still online (from a developer that no longer exists as far as I know), must be another case of a "forgotten/ghost server"

The game is Kingsleys Adventures but I dont remember the URL currently.

Really makes me want to know where that server is physically located. It really must be some forgotten POS server that has been buried behind all the newer machines during the years.

[KamelonGames]

in case anyone was wondering... here is the site for kingsleys adventures... but there aint much left :D

http://www.psygnosis.org/ga...

[Malokii]

How do you know that ? Because some youtuber said that ? lol

[SuberMedic]

The YouTuber who created the video.

[alfaomega]

Who is the author of video?

[ZaWarudo]

No way in hell this wasn't scripted, that's just too creepy to be random.

[Malokii]

I think it was just some kind of easter egg from programmers, its not possible that 2 players decided to play in same time, specially when this game was last played by gamers more than 15 years ago.

[shatens]

All good selling stories must be scripted :P

[Bass_fisherman]

Things that youtubers do just to get viewers these days

[shatens]

But you have to admit that running server of 20 years old game is pretty sick

[Bass_fisherman]

yeah even tough i never heard about this game before

[shatens]

@bass_fisherman I was 8 when this was released :D

[Mr-Dude]

I was 11 when this game came out, good old days. But still, very cool that their servers are still running

[shatens]

Yeah, it shows how they treating the players ;)

[extermin8or]

I was 1 lol...

[WeAreLegion]

Fake, but I love a good urban legend. Especially in video games.

[shatens]

Creepypasta

[WeAreLegion]

Are you part of the SCP Foundation, by chance?

[Deadpooled]

@Legion

Probably a member of the Pastafarians

[Ingram]

@deadpooled I don't get the joke, pastafarians are the flying spaghetti monster followers -which are not related to this- and a creepypasta is a pun on copypaste for a creepy fictional story, hence legion asking for the SCPF; the only common particle is "pasta"

[Lon3wolf]

Not sure I would like to connect to a server that has been running for 20 years with no security updates.

[alfaomega]

Why not?

[jairusmonillas]

It wasn't really creepy. It was long and boring.

[blakstarz]

Apparently on Wiki there was some sort of patch release: 6.2 / November 10, 2014; 16 months ago.

So it seems that maybe its not that "abandoned" after all.

[MasterD919]

Creepy? That shmuck can't even spell right!

[alfaomega]

Hahaha, yes :D

[ScarsOfViolence]

Direct quote from his channel:

vinesauce1 day ago
On a final note about this video, it's been getting shared a lot, which is cool, but it's also frustrating when people give it misleading titles. For the record, I never meant to deceive or trick anyone into believing this was some kind of super AI. At first, it seemed like an NPC, but after a while it was clear I was talking to a person. It was odd how they found me and started RPing in that way, but still obviously a person. That said, it was fun to play along; that's just how I do some of my streams. Some of his dialogue was genuinely creepy and him saying my name at the end was the icing on the cake. I also had a lot of fun editing this video and pairing it with some of my favorite music.

Speculation is fine and I'm glad people are really enjoying the mood of the video and the idea of abandoned internet worlds, but for my part it doesn't go much further than a bizarre stream and an entertaining video. Nothing I say can really convince people that this isn't "fake" or "staged," but if you genuinely believe that, then I guess the video did it's job. Check out the full stream to see some of the other areas I visited and to get further context on what I was doing here. https://youtu.be/MJ3UdgRSa7...

[Nivekki]

That link brings up a 404, this is the one -

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[ScarsOfViolence]

Thank you for that, the link was taken directly from the video page so I don't really know what happened there.

[cerpintaxt44]

nice to hear a good Mars Volta song in the video.

[magus]

Dumb video and this dumb site has the nerve to give me a warning for trolling when they let this nonsense get posted.

[mep69]

Stole the music from Eyes Wide Shut i see.

[MagicBeanz]

20 years later and the servers are still active, damn!

[SquidBuck]

Was this made using Alice? looks that way lol