End of an Era.
Turbine announced earlier this year that Asheron's Call would be entering "Maintenance Mode" meaning no new updates would be added to the game and sooner or later the AC Servers would go dark.
With this announcement Turbine made a peculiar announcement in which they will be allowing the Fans to setup Fan Servers to run Asheron's Call after the servers go dark. However no character data would be transferred from Turbine to these fan servers, meaning everyone would be starting at a blank slate. As well the servers would be precompiled meaning there would be little way for anyone to continue the updates of the servers/clients after the Official Servers go dark.
Its been a heck of a run for Asheron's Call, 15 years of running even as the odds for the game diminished, Turbine has been maintaining minimal staffing for Asheron's Call for several years now, even when they decided to relaunch Asheron's Call 2.