Final Fantasy XIV deserves a mention here too. Though it came back some months later, the original version was a massive failure, so they ended up remaking the entire game. They planned out a whole apocalyptic event for when the original servers went down, with a meteor visible in the sky and slowly getting closer in the months leading up to the shut down. They story behind it was pretty interesting, and it made the world a lot more believable when they brought it back for the new version.
Much like the article says of Star Wars Galaxies, everyone gathered for the server shut down, and at the end a video played of the impending apocalypse.
Much like the article says of Star Wars Galaxies, everyone gathered for the server shut down, and at the end a video played of the impending apocalypse.