In Mourning for Mourning

As noted by a previous post, I'm a big fan of MMORPGs (that's Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games... Games you play with hundreds of others on a common game server). One I had been looking forward to for well over a year... heck, almost two years, was the oft renamed Mourning. (Was Realms of Torment, then changed to Realms of Krel, then changed to Mourning.)

Anyway, it seems Mourning is now FUBARed. It was supposed to release back in February, but I never heard what happened to it. Looking up the websites reveal nothing but a blank black page. So I turned to everyone's favorite source of information: Wikipedia!

In February, the game was "released." That is to say, those who preordered it received a craptastic buggy Beta version on a CD-R. After that, the game was "searching for new funding." In other words: It's dead, and screwed over some customers on the way out.

I'm rather quite sad. The features it was supposedly going to present would have been mildly revolutionary to MMORPG's, a genre which sadly receives little innovation due to the high risks of presenting such a game.

So basically, I'm in mourning for Mourning. It's quite the bummer.

Rock on, kids.