Those who regularly and extensively play online games have often seen many people come and go. Sometimes friends simply disappear and no longer come online. Now there is a Gamer Graveyard where you can mourn the missing.
What exactly is it? As macabre as it sounds: The “Gamer Graveyard” is exactly that – a virtual cemetery for gamers. Accordingly, it is designed in the retro style of 8-bit games, complete with appropriate music that reminds you of the Game Boy era.
What’s the point? Those who spend a lot of time in online games like MMOs often form virtual friendships. But sometimes it can happen that people you’ve been playing with for months or even perhaps years simply disappear.
The cemetery is mainly aimed at the “survivors” who want to mourn their missing friends: “The final resting place for all the poor souls who turned their backs on gaming for ‘more important things’. Bury your friends here to let them know they are missed online.”
The site itself grandiosely refers to itself as part of the metaverse. This is what the actual site looks like:
“Press F to pay respects”
This is how it works: It’s quite simple to “build” such a resting place. You just need to go to the appropriate page (via gamergraveyard.gg).
- There you can simply select the option “Bury a friend”.
- Then enter the player name and the date when the person disappeared.
- You can also choose an epitaph.
- Finally, you can select an optional theme.
- Then you just have to click “Bury”.
If you want to visit the grave again, simply enter the username of the person in the search function.
You can of course also just wander through the cemetery and view the graves of the missing gamers in the eternal halls of the immortal. To pay respects, you just have to press “F”. Then you light a small candle on the grave.
For a grave, a player does not have to be completely missing or dead. Anyone whose activity in the respective game decreases could receive such a grave.
What is the point behind it? Ultimately, this is also a large marketing campaign for Opera GX, which markets itself as the “browser for gamers”. Interestingly, the site has small rendering issues in other browsers. (via PCGamer.com)
It’s definitely a creative but also macabre marketing action. It is also possible that the cemetery will be misused for pranks. After all, you can just bury anything and anyone there.
