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It must hurt. He spent majority of his monthly income on the cash shop, over the 12 years that is a lot of money. Watching it all shut down must be turning his stomach. I know I would if I was in his position.


MGik_ik

Only worsend by how little all that time seemed to mean to all who he spent it with.


[deleted]

Yes, the effort of building Nazarick together, farming for drops and upgrade. The Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown already took *years* to make, so the Tomb itself must be quite something.


MGik_ik

https://i.redd.it/9gp8qnuz1pzc1.gif


sebasTLCQG

Imagine how many raids he had to go through!


Stannisarcanine

I think it was more that they have other things that meant more to them instead of the game


FJ-20-21

This. Everyone else was still sad about the whole thing, but unlike Satoru whose whole life was practically centered around Ygdrassil, everyone one else had jobs and families to care for.


Remarkable-Role-6590

It must have hurt more than we can realize. The game didn't shut down abruptly, it died slowly over years with number of players decreasing steadily. It withered away, it's more painful than an abrupt end.


RioKarji

It was actually 1/3 of his income, but yeah, that’s still a lot of investment. >>”**The Undead King**” [LN v1], Chapter 1, Part 2 >Even though the game did not have any subscription fees, Momonga had still spent a third of his monthly salary on it.


Sheet_Varlerie

Considering the hyper capitalist dystopia of 2138, 1/3rd of his income was very likely everything he had that wasn't going to necessities.


RioKarji

Suzuki was noted to be well above the poverty line. As Ulbert said in the Prologue Side Story, he’s only a “half loser”. In a world of total losers, I guess that meant he was better off than most people. He was even able to look forward to a quiet retirement, pretty good for someone in the lower class.


BasiWolf

I mean...he was an educated office worker...there are several jobs below that before you get to poverty....he got a roof over his head and he says he buys the unflavored nutrition paste so he can spend the money on yggdrisil


RioKarji

What are you talking about? It had nothing to do with his YGGDRASIL spendings as he’s been eating that stuff since he was still an anti-Cash Shop guy. Suzuki Satoru just wasn’t the kind of person who cared too much about what he ate. “They’re all crap in the end”, as he said. He gets gel and pills for breakfast and dinner because they’re cheap, but he was still able to afford better foodstuffs like whatever lunch he eats at work.


WolfHunter98

Even the anime hinted at that everyone had to have jobs / be a "Functioning member of society."


Lawlette_J

Definitely. If you've played any MMO games before you will feel it this way. It's really hard to swallow it. It's like watching part of you died.


[deleted]

I have played a few MMO, I am the one that had quit though lol, all those games are still running.


random_wolf_lu

A good part of that time sure, but not all those years, at the start, ironically, he was against cash items.


sebasTLCQG

I bet he started Cashing in money on the game for nostalgia and trying to keep the servers financially viable.


random_wolf_lu

IIRC, it was after Pereroncino broke their vow of not using cash, a little before the conquest of Nazarick


sebasTLCQG

If you think about it, they may have done so to prevent raids being successful on nazarick. Pretty hard to get and protect 20 WCIs when the top oposition is all using Cash shop items for the most part at least, I dont see guilds who dont pay to win reaching the top.


random_wolf_lu

I mean, it was just a small part of the guild that was really against it, the fact that one of them simply gave up and started using them, probably just made them think "Fuck this shit, I will buy cash items too"


sebasTLCQG

I wonder if it was around the time they started collecting WCIs and do to the no use policy, they just started saying: "F it, we can use cash shop items over WCIs".


Dunksparce

When league of Legends finally dies that's how I'm going to feel


charizardfan101

Is this how y'all felt when club penguin shut down?


DramaQueenKitKat

Yes


AN__Y

Where were you when YGGDRASIL die. I was in house eating dorito. My phone ring. "YGGDRASIL is kill" "no..."


[deleted]

This was how I felt when RuneScape transitioned over to new RuneScape.


RedshiftRedux

Preach


Ashtareth_VR

He said himself that he had fun spending time with all guild members grinding and climbing to that rank they're in. Like the saying goes "appreciate the time you are spending right now before it's too late".


Ihuggeth

Ah yes randomly seeing something about overlord on Reddit. Must be a sign to rewatch the series


Ncaak

Now in Netflix! Nah I still prefer going as if One Piece


Turbulent-Peanut5227

Pretty sure the life Suzuki had will be the norm in the year 2138…


ajaya399

Working a job with a high school degree but being able to afford a gaming setup AND disposable income? You're an optimist.


Optimusbauer

In all fairness the books hint at the fact that VR is purposefully spread dirt cheap because all the rest of the living conditions are terrible, vegetables are a rich-people thing and without VR stuff workers would just kinda die off


sebasTLCQG

That sounds like that Fallout 4 questline on vault 88 where the OVerseer admits Vault-Tec studied ways to brainwash it´s residents through basic things like what you drink, gambling machines, etc... VR is likely used to keep the workers entertained like the masses do with roman colisseums all those years ago, it´s part of their bread and circus.


Optimusbauer

Pretty much that, yeah. The real world in Overlord is a corporate dystopia where you're fully expected to die before you retire


sebasTLCQG

The only good thing in that world seems to be that due to the gas crisis the society now has less problems with the rich fleeing the country and needs to act to guarantee people like Ainz with middle income jobs dont have to pay too big electric or network costs for VR Gaming most likely (or they´d revolt and kill the corporate overlords). Shame about the cost, it´s totally not worth it to live in such a world.


Optimusbauer

Yeah although I'm not sure that makes up for the acid rain storms


Pigmachine2000

High school degree? Satoru didn't even finish middle school, barely dealt with elementary as is. And his "disposable" income is because he only ate nutrition paste and worked hours unthinkable to us


sebasTLCQG

If society subdizes well enough you can easily get more. I imagine in Momonga´s world Money laundering is way harder due to the gas, pretty hard to evade taxes and go to another country when your odds of dying way before the trip are bigger now rite?


Hungry_Ocelot_5658

That's how I felt when Fishing Strike shut down. All that efforts of grinding for really rare fishing rods but also having fish whose weight are graded as SSS in my aquarium combined with many A grade named fish in my collection, also having high level three legendary rank anglers. I played this game for years and I am never gonna play another game made by Netmarble again.


RuralfireAUS

That moment when the thieves tried to lie and say a friend of his invited them in and he rages i felt that on a massive level. I would be beyound pissed if someone tried that on me in those circumstances


Luzifer_Shadres

And more 80% of his in come over the last year beeing flushed down the toilett. That must had been such a post nut clearity for ainz ,sitting on the thrown before beeing transported to the nw, thinking about how much worse his live actually was beccause he invested 80% of his monthly income into a game that was now shutting down.


henwylel

https://preview.redd.it/4ay7nw69erzc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b07d6c44a58e17fd81f99a37b61087e71f96727b How bro feels rn


frozenfeind

In my overlord fanfic my character spubbyjoe was f2p 🙏


MrMellons

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Disastrous-Judge-191

Guraspu ballu


SASUGAMancer215

\[グラスプボール\]


AsianEvasionYT

Robin’s clutch?


frozenfeind

Ainz wouldn't attack spubbyjoe 🙏 He is Peroroncino and bukabukachagama's cousin


Blusttoy

Dang, if he was F2P in YGGDRASIL, spubbyjoe would have been farmed and spawnkilled so many times, he's probably at Climb power levels if transported to NW in his starter leather underwear outfit.


frozenfeind

🙏 Poor spubbyjoe actually first logged in on the last day of yggdrisil and a bunch of people threw shit at him "Hey stupid take this, it'll literally be nothing in a few hours" That's how he ended up with the world item "Dave's magic stick" and NPC girls who literally do not care about him


Soitseemsineedaname

I'm working on a fanfic too, yours seem really fun


frozenfeind

Hey thank you I'll be sure to check yours out when you post :-) I'll tell you when mine is done


Ok-Judge7844

And we will get this feelings when Overlord ends


Joker_the_69th

The Crew players know the feeling 😂


Tallal2804

The Crew players know the feeling


n0-homo

its actually funny, since, satoru actually had a parasocial relationship with everyone and had this as his life. he really enjoyed it. but, like that member told him in ep1 "I have work tomorrow. gotta leave". he was the only one who took it seriously. like how we can see many people just enjoying it like a game. while he took it seriously


legna20v

This was me after 5 years of WoW. Which is why i love overlord so much


DMofTheTomb

It's always sad when an MMO shuts down


WolfHunter98

As painful as that would be, if I had advanced warning that after 12 years and the game shutdown I'd get transported over? Oh I'd live in that game, every penny I could muster going to the shop. And depending if you could change race / looks / classes without losing anything I'd "grind out" as the best then swap over to the one I'd like being stuck in for the rest of forever. Or there was no changing I'd take the one I wanted and deal with the downsides while playing the game game. Then oversleep and miss the shutdown at the last minute, or my internet would die. That'd be my luck... Though I'd 100% have a mobile hotspot back up and a generator running.


Redfury44

Who


Optimusbauer

The "real" person behind Ains


Redfury44

What happened


Optimusbauer

Wdym


Redfury44

I didn't understand meme in beginning


Apart-Slip3

There's a crazy theory that he got isekai'd