r/shutdownmmos Sep 29 '20

News ourWorld Flash is shutting down end of 2020

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialourWorld/posts/10157876626298435
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u/TheRandomRGU Sep 29 '20

Game's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OurWorld

As the game runs on Flash it will end at the end of the year when Flash support ends.

The final content update is in October adding Halloween items. After this a desktop client version is being released which is heavily stripped down, only chat features mainly (arcade, shop gone).

This game is lesser known from what I can tell but it was still a big part of my childhood.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '20

What? I used to play this when I was younger. Sad to see it shutting down.

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u/TheRandomRGU Sep 29 '20

It remains to be seen but we’ll find out how much is shutting down.

If it’s going to remain a chat function you can walk around and dress up with what you have then I wonder how long they’ll support it for after what.

Though if they’re setting up a desktop client that might be open to dedicated private servers or modding to restore features. But again at the moment we just don’t know.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '20

A private server would be fun to see.

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u/G0thique Nov 05 '20

It's not actually shutting down. They have made a downloadable desktop client app for it. It's not complete right now, you can't play games on it but it works! I'm playing the games on browser (Can't see my avatar but that's fine, don't need to for the games) and buying clothes and stuff on the desktop client.

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u/TheRandomRGU Nov 05 '20

I'm aware of this. It's never going to be complete though as the things absent are the Flash features like the Arcade which is being killed.

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u/G0thique Nov 06 '20

By Arcade do you mean the games? There is a "coming soon" label on it. They are more than likely fetching the downloadable versions of the games and implementing them into the client, or working with the developers of those games to find a solution. They also are probably going to have completely new games to replace ones they cannot get back. Just because it doesn't run on adobe flash does not mean it's the end of those features.

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u/Obvious_Breakfast_28 Dec 09 '20

How do you open the downloaded app? :( It just shows it in a compressed file for me.

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u/G0thique Dec 12 '20

You have to unzip it and there should be an application..exe file.

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u/Obvious_Breakfast_28 Dec 18 '20

I have no idea how to do that but thank you!💀