


As the game jumps forward from release to release, thousands upon thousands of characters and maps can be lost in server resets and file format changes, rendering entire societies of player characters dead and whole worlds completely destroyed in their wake.
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If you’ve ever played an early beta of any massively multiplayer or persistent world game, then you’ll know that they basically consist of a series of apocalypses.
