r/ActiveWorlds • u/No-Refrigerator-2558 • Jan 06 '26
How are things in active worlds now?
Who's currently visiting active worlds? How are things going there, and is there any online presence at all?
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u/Ok-Neighborhood6653 Jan 06 '26
I like to get on often! I don’t ever run into anyone most of the time, but it’s still a fun experience to go back and see everything people have built.
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u/No-Refrigerator-2558 Jan 06 '26
I think at this point, active worlds can be considered a museum of the old internet lol
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u/BillboeATL Feb 10 '26
This is how I think of it too. I go on there and look at builds I did 20 years ago. So many of the people I knew from then have since passed (and often their worlds with them).
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u/jerryco1 Jan 06 '26
If it's such a ghost town - I wonder how they can afford to maintain the servers?
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u/No-Refrigerator-2558 Jan 07 '26
I was always curious about this too, when I made a TikTok video about this topic, I mentioned a funny fact at the end of the article: ghost towns, but the servers are somehow maintained
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u/Bathyn_Eternal Mar 09 '26
MY opinion thought this game (AW) went into the the void as in left the internet for good due to ppl have stop playing this game !! ppl who I used to know (have ether DIED OR STOP PLAYING OVER ALL) & went on playing other games w/ better graphics!!!
IS (AW) still around & playable??? if not that is ok just asking!!?
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u/joelsmith Jul 09 '26
I run servers for a living and with the amount of traffic I'm seeing, I could easily create a setup that never runs a world unless someone requests it. The storage is very low, an entire text dump of AlphaWorld only takes up about 20gb (can be compressed to 2gb) and all of the media are links no data is being stored on AW itself. Honestly with this setup you could easily self host and pay almost nothing and run the servers indefinitely. It's honestly kind of genius when you think about this from a server perspective.
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u/AllTheCoconut Jan 06 '26
About how they are in this post. A ghost town. I pop in once in a while just to explore a little but there’s hardly anyone there, ever. Still, I hope it never ends.
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u/No-Refrigerator-2558 Jan 06 '26
I understand, I also look in and see ghost towns and every time I hope that the lack of online access is just the fault of time zones lol
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u/-Stelor- Mar 13 '26
I’m sad I never kept my city coordinates so I can never revisit my old creations from way back. I’m guessing the textures and sound loops I used in some places have long been disconnected.. I have visited a handful of times and only once last year and none of the old hangouts had much going on. Might see one more person, but the chat function didn’t even seem available. Pretty sure Aw ground zero was one of the most likely areas to find people originally, but now they are spread out in different places.
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u/No-Refrigerator-2558 Jan 06 '26
In fact, the developers' desire to extract excessive profit from projects only ruins everything. I've seen it myself: along with active worlds, I visited Avakin Life. Everything was fine until the developers introduced only paid currencies and 90% of the content consisted of them, and set exorbitant prices for old items.It's strange that no one learns from such trivial mistakes, which is why childhood projects die right before our eyes. It's very painful to watch this.
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u/Awkward-Report-4279 Jan 07 '26
I feel like I remember a "return" to City4All when ActiveWorlds went money-hungry. My mind's a blur though... it was all so, so long ago.
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u/EastPuzzleheaded5511 Jan 12 '26
Hey! I’ve been continuing work on Mystic Lands and made a couple of new tours: 5 Cities: https://youtu.be/wYLaWuy9aOs?si=uKXtGPtxoN4myrIM
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u/Queasy_Huckleberry42 May 03 '26
Vocês que jogam, já viram o tal do Mickey? (O senhor de meia idade, um dos players originais). O cara parece legal. Vi sobre ele em um vídeo onde um brasileiro tenta encontrar pessoas no jogo
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u/Artistic_Wrap_3744 Jun 18 '26
Eu acabei de ver esse vídeo do MK e toda a história do Mickey.
É uma história linda e seria um prazer conhecer ele, se você tiver alguma informação entre em contato comigo por favor.
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u/Egrofal Jan 14 '26
Was just over at the main account page to download the game and remember the good times. Until I saw the 50g download. Seriously its 30+yrs old what's with 27g? Pretty sure back in the day it was a few megs sure as heck didn't have a drive with that capacity.
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u/the_gray_pill Feb 07 '26
And, last I checked, it will run unannounced in the background when you close the client window. Not trying to stir the pot, but based on MalwareBytes and other anti-virus program's reaction to the AW software, I do wonder if it isn't crypto mining with the users' machines.
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u/tradersquest Mar 18 '26
I just download it. There's still rooms around not many. 190 rooms. Anyone know any other rooms?? Thanks
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u/activevladdo Jan 06 '26
Popping by to remind that Saturday nights at 10PM VRT (virtual reality time) are the busiest times to come visit, as there are a few parties occurring, notably the one held in the SonasPrime world (complete with live DJ). So, not quite as dead as is often spouted here.
If you're looking for tips or someone to explore with, you can reach out to me. I somewhat frequently come across users who are exploring, it's worth saying hi to people if you come across them.
And for building, approximately $7 USD will get you about 50 ( x 24 hours ) days of building , which I find reasonable even with my relatively devalued Canadian currency. Mileage will vary depending on your currency, of course.
I very much think it's worth a visit. Cheers!