Preserve
Archive, document, and restore endangered digital worlds.
Digital preservation · Community continuity
Old worlds.
New life.
We’re building a foundation to preserve online gaming history and help communities keep the worlds they care about accessible.
In development. Programs and hosting are subject to authorization and available resources.
Our mission
No world should be forgotten
simply because its servers went dark.
The Eternal Worlds Foundation is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and continued accessibility of digital worlds and online gaming communities.
Through technical innovation, archival efforts, community collaboration, and nonprofit infrastructure, we work to ensure that virtual experiences of historical, cultural, and communal significance are not lost to time.
We believe digital worlds are more than software. They are places where friendships are formed, memories are created, and communities find belonging.
Our mission is to keep those worlds alive for current players and future generations.
Support
Provide infrastructure and support to keep communities connected.
Sustain
Develop knowledge, documentation, and succession plans so digital worlds can outlive their current caretakers.
Five developing programs
More than keeping a server online.
Hosting, history, restoration, knowledge and the people behind each world.
Eternal Hosting
A permanent home for worlds at risk of disappearing.
Explore programEternal Archives
Preserve the history of digital worlds.
Explore programEternal Restoration
Restore what time has taken offline.
Explore programEternal Knowledge
Ensure preservation knowledge survives.
Explore programEternal Communities
Keep the people behind digital worlds connected.
Explore programWhy preservation matters
When infrastructure disappears,
an experience can disappear with it.
An online game depends on more than its client software. Without the services, knowledge and people that support it, its shared spaces can become inaccessible.
Responsible preservation considers the software, its creators’ rights, its history and the communities that make it worth returning to.
Read our founding principlesFoundation projects
Starting with what we can document.
Initiatives undertaken by the foundation are separate from the broader preservation registry.
Eternal War
Eternal War is the foundation’s associated PlanetSide 2 preservation effort, currently in development. Technical scope, milestones and operational arrangements remain pending confirmation.
The Eternal Worlds Promise
We cannot guarantee that every world will last forever. But no world entrusted to our care should ever be treated as disposable.Read the full promise
Help give a world a future.
Nominate a world
Tell us about a game at risk and why its story matters.
Save a World →Contribute your knowledge
Development, research, documentation and community experience all have a place.
Volunteer →Plan a legacy
Developers and rights holders can explore authorized preservation arrangements.
Eternal Legacy →