What happened to Vasquaria?

Answer 1

I wonder that same thing from time to time. The last I heard, back in 2005, was that the cost of maintaining the server rose, for whatever reason (internet rate was higher, need better equipment, etc...). But it has been a while and this is hearsay because I hadn't been playing when it ended.

On the other hand, I do remember the administrators of the game having plans to build their own engine to break away from the Playerworlds engine they were using. I remember a few of the regular players volunteered/were asked to make pixel art to break away from the tileset as well, so that the game would be all original creative art.

So maybe they have been working on this while the original game is offline, and one day it will return.