MV Haven

**MV Haven** was a forum that aimed to be a successor of sorts to Miiverse, created by and administered by King-X, a former Miiverse user. He proposed its creation after the announcement of Miiverse's closure, and received a positive response from various members of the Miiverse community. Nintendoer especially had been a strong proponent of MV Haven, to the extent that he was recognized specifically by King-X for advertising MV Haven in the twilight days of Miiverse.

A number of members of the ZNG (e.g. Nintendoer, Justin86, Ray) made accounts and were active on MV Haven, but, of course, not all used the site. The first instance of the forum existed from September 2017 to March 2018, for 6 months, before all posts, comments, and accounts from before March 20, 2018 were wiped from the main forum. After approximately a month of being unavailable, they were re-uploaded as a view-only archive before being permanently deleted in the summer of 2018. On March 21, 2018, a second version of the forum at the same web address replaced the first, requiring users to sign up again and build up a new post history. Soon after the second MV Haven forum opened, registration was closed to new users and all posts were hidden from view by anyone who was not logged in, and following that, the discontinuation was announced.

## Discontinuation

Because the hosting for the site was solely paid for and maintained by King-X, he had stated that he was unsure whether he would keep the forum around if activity was below his expectations, and indeed, he announced plans for the discontinuation MV Haven after running it for one year. On May 31, 2018, King-X announced that the forum would be shut down three months from that date, on August 31, 2018. However, he changed stance on June 10, stating that the service would instead be operational until the end of August 2019. The reason given was that allegedly King-X desired to discuss the new *Tales of Vesperia* enhanced port with the community on MV Haven before MV Haven shut down. A second extension brought the closure date of MV Haven to April 27, 2020, at which point it shut down entirely.

See List of Archived MV Haven Posts for some MV Haven posts from ZNG members that were preserved here on the wiki.

Below can be found some pertinent quotes from King-X's post on MV Haven regarding the service's purpose and discontinuation.

*"‪Do I miss it [Miiverse]? I'm going to say no. I got everything I wanted out of it and had it continued I believe it would have descended into a worse state of being. It's a sad thought to consider that 5 year old friendships forged on there were ended, and that's part of why **I bothered making this place, even if only long enough for people to establish more permanent channels of communication.**"*

 —King-X

*"**MV Haven to close on August 31st 2018***

*There are some here to whom the following will be no surprise. ... Thanks for your interest and understanding of this matter!"*

 —King-X

*"There has been a development:*

*…Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition has just been announced for Switch… I realised I want to talk about that, and I want to talk about it "here"… I'd like to see how the game fares with this community.…
So enjoy a closure postponement until the end of August 2019!"*

 —King-X