I've known for a while that zOMG! would eventually have to come down. I just figured they'd let it be and continue to ignore it so that it might have lived on to close with the rest of the site. I'm glad they didn't just keep ignoring it, though. It deserved so much more than the slow, undignified death Mike Sego subjected it to by appropriating the people and resources he wanted for developing Facebook games and disposing of anyone he didn't need by handing out pink slips. If there's one good thing that I'd say came from the new CEO's direction, it was Gaia finally coming around to take a dying game off life support, at the very least.
I'll always feel like something is missing now that it's gone, and I'll never forget it or experience anything quite like it ever again. That doesn't mean I get to be angry at Gaia for making the best possible decision for it they could have, or that I should sink into denial and insist they killed it with the worst of intentions when it could have been saved. It also doesn't mean I have to leave the site. I'll just continue to make my peace with losing it until I'm ready to move on, and then go back to what I had been doing on Gaia before it happened - dickering around in the Barton Town roleplaying forum, most likely.