system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:What happens when a game "dies"/closes like an mmo, is all the progamming effort and data lost forever?
gpt
When a game "dies", it means the company is no longer willing to pay to maintain the game servers. The games still exist on hard drives, but they are no longer actively being played through the internet. 

There have been cases where a game "died" only to have fans create and maintain their own servers to play on.