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My old favorite online game site, FunOrb is shutting down.

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A bit of gaming news that hits me really close to home. RuneScape was my first MMORPG back in late 2006, some time into my RS adventure I found FunOrb which was Jagex's other online game website. All the games were made with Java essentially like Runescape originally was.

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http://services.funorb.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=13838

 

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"It is with great sadness that we have taken the difficult decision to say goodbye to FunOrb, which we will be winding down over the next 3 months. It has been amazing to see such dedication amongst those of you who have kept coming back to FunOrb over the last 10 years. However, advancements in software and hardware have made it increasingly difficult to access and play the games on the portal, and that’s ultimately led to our decision."

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"Over the next 3 months we’ll be slowly winding down FunOrb. After 8th of May 2018 it will no longer be possible to purchase new FunOrb membership, and after 14th of May 2018 it will not be possible to create new FunOrb accounts. However, we’re not turning the lights out just yet. To make sure that everyone has a chance to enjoy these games one last time, we’ll be keeping the servers online until 7th of August 2018."

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FunOrb was kind of like what Steam is to me now back in my RuneScaping days. I remember my favorite games were Armies of Gielinor and Steel Sentinels. These two games to me are highly unrecognized and under-rated to this day and I've never found a game just like them ever since. If I ever had the opportunity to create an indie game those two would probably be role models I would base mine on.

 

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Arcanists tho. That shit needs to be released on Steam and PSN/XBL with cross platform. So many hours of fun.

 

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I wonder why it died. /s

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4 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Arcanists tho. That shit needs to be released on Steam and PSN/XBL with cross platform. So many hours of fun.

 

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I wonder why it died. /s

I've heard there are games out there similar to Arcanist though it wasn't my personal favorite. So many of these games would've made for decent Steam/mobile/console releases. Miner disturbance was another good one. I'll treasure my times playing the games on this site forever.

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I remember when they started it... I wasn't a big fan of it back then, still not now. Truth be told I'm surprised they kept it open for so long...

 

Hell... It's been abandoned for at least 3 years... I guess they finally realized the servers where still running and decided to stop them.

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If you want to add it to the list of dead/dying games, contact Ross Scott over on Youtube (Accursed Farms). He's trying to document as many cases as possible - trying to see if the developers would let people host their own servers.

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2 hours ago, Okjoek said:

I've heard there are games out there similar to Arcanist though it wasn't my personal favorite. So many of these games would've made for decent Steam/mobile/console releases. Miner disturbance was another good one. I'll treasure my times playing the games on this site forever.

Same playstyle as Worms but I felt the different spell books allowed you to create your own play style. I had a ton of fun, put a lot of hours in to it in my free time.

2 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

I remember when they started it... I wasn't a big fan of it back then, still not now. Truth be told I'm surprised they kept it open for so long...

 

Hell... It's been abandoned for at least 3 years... I guess they finally realized the servers where still running and decided to stop them.

 

7.5 years.. They haven't made any updates since Sep 2010.

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3 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

I know (I saw that too), but the last time they even bothered doing anything to FunOrb facewise was the copyright back 3 years ago.

 

Seriously how lazy do you have to be to not do this:

https://blog.templatetoaster.com/auto-update-copyright-year/

They definitely forgot about it I guess.

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NOOOOOOO

 

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To make sure that everyone has a chance to enjoy these games one last time, we’ll be keeping the servers online until 7th of August 2018.

Go play those games while you still can.

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The membership for FunOrb used to be the same plan as OSRS/RS2/RS3 membership, meaning you didn't have to pay twice... Sadly they eventually made FunOrb membership standalone, killing off more of the userbase :(

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On 5/12/2018 at 11:55 AM, ManIkWeet said:

The membership for FunOrb used to be the same plan as OSRS/RS2/RS3 membership, meaning you didn't have to pay twice... Sadly they eventually made FunOrb membership standalone, killing off more of the userbase :(

what user base? 

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22 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

what user base? 

The last, tiny bit of enthusiasts...

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it says 2018 not 2019 is that a typo or is it already shut down? Im pretty sure this already happened

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Aren't FunOrb games run on Java? There shouldn't be software advancement problems since java is updated regularly.

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6 hours ago, John_Trollinski said:

it says 2018 not 2019 is that a typo or is it already shut down? Im pretty sure this already happened

Na NateCompProblems is being a necromancer.
Okay let this post die everyone

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