A video that came out not long ago and has been popular ever since — in its own roundabout way it speaks for players everywhere, and the last part is deeply moving.

World of Warcraft going offline triggers a “Professor Sheep” career crisis: (Couldn’t find the original author — if you know who it is, please speak up) Click the images below to view them full size

I’ve been playing WoW since the open beta, and after the 9C servers started having frequent, mysterious and unstoppable energy fluctuations that made the game really unpleasant to play, I gradually went AFK. After TBC launched, I went back in and played casually for quite a while, but in the end I left again. I once thought WoW could no longer tempt me, but now that I’ve lost WOW, I feel an unprecedented sense of powerlessness — like the Kaldorei Moon Guard losing the source of the Well of Eternity.