It’s a tale we’ve heard and possibly experienced all too often. You meet someone in a game lobby or during a match. Maybe it starts off heated, with both of you gunning for each other. However, by the end, you realize you two may be long-lost siblings, now connected through some sketchy network that keeps dropping. You become gaming buddies, having each other’s backs through thick and thin. But then, one day, they just don’t come online anymore.
We never know when it will be the last time we ever play a match with an online friend. Maybe they just got bored of the game, they got busy doing other IRL stuff, or perhaps their console spontaneously combusted. Regardless of the circumstance, what do you do with that feeling of losing someone like that? Well, now you can go to the Gamer Graveyard.
For those looking to enter someone into the graveyard, click the “Bury a Friend” button. You will then be asked to enter the person’s nickname, the rough day when they went offline, and a few words for an epitaph. You can then pick an optional theme and hit “bury” to forever inter them into the digital soil.
Those who wish to browse the various graves and pay their respects will see a small number of clickable graves appear on the screen, and there is also a search option to find a specific gamer’s grave. Pressing F to pay respects will light a small candle on the grave and show the number of respects that particular grave has received.
Now, you don’t have to die for a grave to be placed. Any level of absence from the gaming scene is enough to warrant your tombstone. This could be because you got a real job that helps you enjoy the finer things in life, you felt the need to run off into the woods and live in a cottage, or just realized that maybe Warzone isn’t worth the sleepless nights. You could post a name here for no reason at all too. The graveyard is very inclusive.
Aside from being a resting place for digital lives lost, the graveyard is also a promo site for Opera GX, a “browser for gamers” that features integrated Discord, Twitch support, along with CPU, RAM, and network usage limiters to help you keep PC resources free for your gaming needs. Keep in mind other browsers may face some problems with this website. The tombstone candles are not persistent on Firefox, whereas the search function is missing on Chrome.
No doubt, this graveyard is a bit gimmicky and will probably be forgotten in a week or two. But it’s a fun way to reminisce about the good ol’ days or tease your friend for not joining the weekly Sunday session because they had real-life stuff to do. But beyond that, it’s nothing major and certainly not some metaverse as it keeps being labeled.
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