Adventchildren.net is… totally gone

[X-SOLDIER]

So, since the Final Fantasy VII Remake is officially dropping in about 6 hours, I was poking around for the first stuff that was released back during TGS 2003. I remembered being in my last year of high school and dreaming about the idea that one day there would be a version of Final Fantasy VII that looked this good, and remembering how crazy it was to think that a high poly film would ever be possible to have in a playable game:

So, while hunting around for the original press releases and whatnot, I just went to see if I could dig through all of the old AC news archive, and... it's just a Huawei HG8245H Login page now, and I assume that the none of the default admin creds don't work, though I haven't tried more than a couple of them, since I was really just looking for the above images. I don't remember the last time I went there, but I think that the old site was still just old and lingering some time in 2019 even though a lot of the content and links were broken. Super weird to think that the place that sort of kicked off everything about my online presence totally based on FFVII didn't actually make it to the release of the Remake – but that the Remake of ac.net made it to the Remake.

So yeah, extra glad that TLS exists so that we've still got a ton of the hard work and stuff that got put in to everything back in the day living in a more healthy home, since in our own way this site's sort of like a Remake. Figured it was worth a thread at the very least.


RIP ac.net

(and long live TLS and the FFVII Remake )



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[looneymoon]

i am sure we can still see it in the astral plane

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Tons of that stuff is preserved on the Wayback Machine, though, blessedly.

 

[Makoeyes987]

In the end all of it's memories and knowledge joined...

The Lifestream

 

[ForceStealer]

The final final end of the era, then.

In the end all of it's memories and knowledge joined...

The Lifestream

 

[Octo]

I dunno I think it's good personally. Like knowing the time you shat your pants in public has been erased from consciousnesses.


That said RIP

 

[Russell]

Shame, but if nothing ended nothing new could begin.

 

[Master Bates]

In the end all of it's memories and knowledge joined...

The Lifestream

After long months of being offline, I purposely logged in just so I could like this post.

 

[Ryushikaze]

In the end all of it's memories and knowledge joined...

The Lifestream

Does that mean all its utter insanity has been released into the internet again?
We might want to be concerned about that.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Rip in peace.

 

[Master Bates]

Does that mean all its utter insanity has been released into the internet again?
We might want to be concerned about that.

HOLY SHIT YOU'RE BACK!

You know what they say: when one door closes (ac.net), another one opens (Ryu).

 

[SailorStarDust]

I didn't browse much fansites back then (just fanart) but end of an era, indeed.

Also, watching that initial initial AC trailer after going through Remake....talk about chills, with just how far VII's come along

 

[Tennyo]

It has returned to the planet...

 

[cold_spirit]

Looking at the banner image in the Wayback Machine is making me real nostalgic. Gotta admit, the web design was pretty good for the mid-2000s.

 

[Rydeen]

Looking at the banner image in the Wayback Machine is making me real nostalgic. Gotta admit, the web design was pretty good for the mid-2000s.

It really was. I actually think SY designed it herself. I'm morbidly curious as to what she's up to these days.

 

[Lestat]

Dry humping her sephiroth love pillow into oblivion most likely.

 

[Rydeen]

Dry humping her sephiroth love pillow into oblivion most likely.

I hope not. That whole parasocial "exclusive" relationship with Sephiroth was really sad.

 

[Lestat]

Weirder than when she flipped it from an imaginary male videogame character to another obsession with the monster in cloverfield?

 

[SocraticMethod]

I was nostalgically looking on the Wayback Machine and stumbled on this gem.

 

[Tetsujin]

Man, they said some shit back in the day. The latter is obviously true but "we only do it if it takes a year" is like...what? You high or something?

 

[Prism]

That second portion is quite the accurate foreshadowing, despite how wrong the first part ended up being. It’s funny to have that juxtaposition.

But I feel like, for better or worse, that stuff happens all the time in the games industry.
For example, a game director saying “Oh, this entry will be my last” followed by them making many more. This is somewhat of a similar vein.

But hey, mindsets can change a lot in five years, I suppose.

 

[Fangu]

My thought is that was probably just a very polite (Japanese) way of saying "it's not happening (right now)"

 

[Erotic Materia]

Weirder than when she flipped it from an imaginary male videogame character to another obsession with the monster in cloverfield?

Oooookay then. I'm really glad I never got involved in FF forums back in the day, I would have gotten banned in a heartbeat.

 

[Lestat]

Oooookay then. I'm really glad I never got involved in FF forums back in the day, I would have gotten banned in a heartbeat.

In the last 6 months of acf everyone got banned for one reason or another.

Kinda the norm when you have a mentally ill pair of co-owners.

 

[Erotic Materia]

I wish it was still around so I could sift through all the drama