He was nineteen and had 4,112 hours in a game six people at his school still played. He was the second-ranked support on the server, which meant nothing anywhere else and everything at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday, when the raid group needed him and said his name out loud in voice chat, twice, and waited for him to answer.

The sunset notice went up in March with ninety days' notice. He played every night until the last one. At 11:59 the screen resolved into a thank-you card set in the studio's brand font, and his character stood there for a moment and then did not. He left the client installed for a year. He opened it sometimes to watch the connection fail.