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Break open a dead MMO and find what goofs and horrors await in Gorgon’s Garden

Break open a dead MMO and find what goofs and horrors await in Gorgon’s Garden

MMOs are a strange facilitation of games because they are, ostensibly, dead on arrival. Not dead in the sense of “lol dead game,” that exact comment you see littered in the comments of articles, videos etc. about literally any online game, no matter how popular it is. Dead in the sense that it will die, as all things do, because one day the servers will go down and there will be no (legal) way to play it anymore. I put the legal in brackets there because there are many a fan effort that allow you to play a range of “officially” dead MMOs, but what would a game about a Frankensteinian revival of such a thing look like? Probably, Gorgon’s Garden.

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