At closing I made a joke about having a support thread for all of us who may be going through withdrawal from VMK. While I was joking, I also know that there are some out there who will be left with a huge hole when it comes to opening time for VMK in the morning. I want to reassure all the addicts that we are here to listen and to help out in any way we can. It really stinks that Disney did not have another game ready for all of us. My only hope is that we will all be able to find another game where we will be able to continue hanging out with each other and keep our friendships going.
So if anyone just needs to vent or needs to talk about missing VMK feel free to post here.

Argh, if there's one immediate thing for me to vent it would be that I should have planned my last day better and started messaging friends earlier, not during the final minutes and then end up missing out on what was going on in the rooms. Not only that, it didn't hit me until the last minute that I could have been in different rooms at the same time with two different characters so I wouldn't be missing out on the other. It seemed like everyone was poking fun of bay bes during the final minutes and I was missing out on that also.

Sorry you missed out on a lot JL. I really wish they would have turned off the limits for the rooms so we could have all been together for closing. I think that the closing of this game is so frustrating to me because I have never been able to get into any other MMO like this.
One of the great things was that I did not have to be a toon, a fairy, or a pirate. I could be a little virtual version of myself and dress up like those things. It was almost as if we were all in a little Disney movie. If Walt made all of us as cartoons I imagine VMK is what it would have been like. I just can not believe that WDIG could not see that.

I blame my computer for my unhappiness.

I didnt get to log on yesterday because I needed flash player and it wouldnt even get to the home page! I have tried downloading it 500 times AND so has my dad.



Ugh. Thanks alot darn computer.

I just wish I could spend my last days with my friends..

Hmm. Not sure what to do. I am sitting here staring at the VMK home page (wearing my "real" VMK baseball cap & t-shirt) with no place to login. All I can think about is my avatar's pixels sitting scattered around on some server that's on a bench waiting to be formatted.

Somehow, I knew the "day after" would be worse than the "last day", if only because I could spend that last day with my friends.

Hopefully all of our pixels have moved on to another (if not better) virtual place. Thanks to everyone who helped make VMK such a fun part of our lives for several years.

Well, I started playing VMK when I first moved to a new town and I had no friends. VMK was a place where I could come home after a hard, friendless day at school and meet some friends and have fun. I then moved back to where I used to live and had all my old friends again. However, I had VMK still to, so I had even more friends. The good thing is that that isn't a problem anymore.



Okay, I am done venting.

Yeah today pretty much stinks. I have things I can do and games I can play but all I really want to do is log in Magic Willow and chill in my rooms.

As for last night I am in the same boat as Idea. I managed to catch a few non Addict members earlier that day and say my goodbyes but in the last hour of VMK I was pretty much in a state of chaos. I spent most of that hour crying (which made it really difficult to type) messaging as many people on my friend list as I could to tell them how much I will miss them and how glad I was that we met. At the same time I was trying to read all the replies hoping I did not accidently delete any before reading. With all of that going on I was totally missing things being said in the room I was in with friends. Arg. Very frustrating indeed. I also agree with Fish that they totally should have done something with the room limit so EVERYONE could be with their friends. I feel bad that we were all over the place and yet you were afraid to room hop since there was so much lag or you couldn't get in then your stuck not getting in the room you just left... What a mess.

I'm sure everyone was having these issues so I know there can't be any hard feelings out there, everyone did the best they could to see and talk to everyone within the limits we had.

I woke up this morning, still sad after dreaming of our VMK selves walking through the lands trying to find a safe place to go together.

And I agree with the previous two points - it would have been nice to have the room limit relaxed, and it would have been nice for there to have been some type of "special" happening to acknowledge the love we all had of VMK, though I don't know what that should have been. However, I did spend time noticing how much detail went into all the public and private rooms and mini-games. VMK was a wonderful feat of creativity and effort.

Well, the last night I wasn't on. I at my cousins graduation. I wasn't thinking of VMK. I had gone the day before to all my favorite rooms in all the lands and said goodbye. I said goodbye to my best buddys an went to school. I want VMK back for all of us. But, the last minutes of VMK I was happy. I feel not sad, but not happy. I'm ok though. I think tonight I'll just sit back and relax. Maybe I'll be more socialable without VMK.


I will Miss VMK.

I really do not know why, but I feel bad for my little avatar. Over the past few years he really became an extension of me. He kept me in touch with the lighter side of life. It was great that I could log on and pretend to be a space pirate roaming about the kingdom. It was as if the world stopped for a little bit of time and I got to load up a cartoon version of myself and hang out with friends all over. It was always nice to know that even if there was nobody on, there were still friendly faces throughout the game.
Almost every player in VMK had at least one thing in common: they had a special place for all things Disney. No matter if you were a parent who trusted that Disney would keep your child safe, or a child who loved the adventures Disney always took you on, VMK had something for you.
I know that there were times when VMK made all of us very mad, but I think those were the times that we felt the operators of the game were being very non-Disney. Things like unfair distribution of prizes or quests that brought tears to children's eyes are what upset us all. VMK was our little part of Disney and we always spoke up when we felt the operators needed a reminder. I think that WDIG thought our negative feedback was just because we did not like the game. I don't think anything could be further from the truth.
When I think of playing VMK now it reminds me of that commercial Disney has where the Mom or Dad ends up turning into a little kid as they run through the park with their son or daughter. It is crazy that a MMO can bring that kind of feeling to so many people.
Now I just picture our little avatars sitting on the curbs of Main Street. I feel like they are stuck in constant night time with the soft glow of the street lights overhead. I just hope that from time to time Mickey orders a fireworks show at the castle to put a virtual smile on their faces.

Fish you make a great point. Adaie has been a wonderful way I could just relax for a while and talk to friends. When things were wrong all my friends were there wether I know them for real or not. Vmk was a place for regular people to have an alter-ego in an avatar and trust in others without worrying about being put down. Vmk had its rough patches but we all got through them and look how far we've come.

Thank you all for an amazing Vmk life. I hope we can find another game to latch onto

Hugs to everyone! I miss you all.

I thought about you when I had my churro tonight.

I will need therapy when I get home.


P.S. Fish maybe our avatars found a way into Club33 and are having a party that will never end! At least they are all there together.

I first learned about VMK at Disneyland, but was (at that time) one of those people who often said they would Never get into an online game. More than that, I had never been in a chat room, or used an IM. I was determined not to get involved with people online. A couple of months later, I read The Kingdom Keepers and was fascinated by the images of VMK in the book, but still maintained my attitude of avoiding people online.

But then I had a couple of opportunities to travel for work. I decided finally to look into VMK as a safe place to visit with my kids while I was away. I created accounts for the three of us, and it worked out really well. We were able to talk, walk, visit and play games while miles apart. But those times were temporary.

One day while waiting for my son to log on, I met Splunge-Idea. Soon after KPCool made her way into my life...and the rest was a snowball.

VMK's second Christmas was a difficult time for my family. Money was extremely tight, I had some medical issues, Inogota got in a car accident - all the things you don't want to have happen at Christmas time. I was blessed to have such wonderful friends on VMK that were always there to listen and to cheer me up. And I found it was much easier to be cheered by my avatar friends who could not see me cry. Many of them even got together in real life and sent a very generous gift to my family. I will never forget that.

In the times that followed, many of my VMK friends had issues of their own, and it was a delight to be there for them. I knew just how much it meant to just be there for my virtual friends, now that the situation was reversed.

The ritual of the closing dance became almost a lifeline for so many of us. I think I will have a difficult time sleeping tonight, without it.

Yes, I will miss my little avatar, and I certainly will miss the closing dance. But, I am ever so thankful for this site. If I could not keep in touch with all of you, and follow the stories we began together through to the end, it would be devastating.

So keep in touch everyone, we'll find something new eventually. In the meantime we have VMKaddict, and we have each other.

Well, I happen to know for a fact that you are still where you closed, frozen in time. Me, I am still in Tom Sawyers with everyone. My sister has a really weird, (and very cool) bug that she is still on VMK. She never got the closing message that night, and she never exited VMKPal. She can go to some rooms still, and there are no avatars if you just click the room from the map. Other rooms say "Area not available." If you go to advanced mode, you can see how many people are in the room. Tom Sawyers had all red mickeys in all of the rooms. Castle Forecourt had all red mickeys except for one room that has 3 yellow mickeys. She cannot follow people into private guest rooms, like where Adaie was. (LOL you are still in "Goodbye my dear friends ) She can send messages, but obviously doesn't get a response. But when she goes into a room, she cannot enter text. The music is still playing for the map. When she follows me into the island, you can see all of us, frozen. There is no text and there is no message, nor are we dancing. We are frozen in dancing position. Kind of comforting (to me anyway) to know that we are all still "dancing" on the island together. I find it kind of funny that we can still see our last visit and our signatures too. It's just very funny. I think that if she is still on, there is still hope that MAYBE something good will happen involving VMK. Don't worry, I've been saying good morning and good night to all of our avatars. I think they miss you all.

I just know my little avatar is sitting on main street in front of coke corner holding signs and waiting for the parade to start! Superchibi and Ginnia are there too...and maybe shape and her family stroll by, and magic willow and danger and zackoid, and even bear shows up once in a while! I am so happy that vmk made meeting each of you in real life possible. Heck I even got a virtual son out of it! I bought su-bak-na for a gloden snowman and met the whole darn family too. Thanks friends, we'll see each other soon...right back there on coke corner.

I don't know if anyone noticed, but I was dc about two minutes before the close. I sure hope my avitar was still there dancing on Tom Sawyer Island, next to jcatsby. I was okay the following day and night because I was busy with work and other things, but tonight, I figured that I would log on to VMK to start the holiday weekend (especially since the weather is still cold and rainy, for 19 out of 23 days this month).

I wonder if there is a way for us all to chat together at once, like a scheduled event in some chat room. I don't know much about that sort of thing, but maybe someone does and can look into starting a VMK chat room??? Just wondering.

Have a terrific holiday weekend, all (just wish there was a new holiday item to buy with credits !)

I am depressed and happy today - sigh - I am just sitting here waiting for vmk to open again like it is only closed for the day but i will be ok over the weekend i am driving with my family to Disneyland tomorrow morning