December 2011 is the end

[Alerith]

So youve been playing by yourself all this time? Or with friends?

It sounds like you're trying to take the Massive Multiplayer part out of the MMO.

If all his friends didn't play, he'd just make new ones with other players. It's a perpetual thing.

You're basically asking "If there was no human life on the server, would you still play?"