>Regular service appointments should be made in order to maintain functionality.
Some anons have speculated that those who play the game at the higher levels have pledged their life to their controllers in a situation where the player's health expires unless the player periodically receives some kind of life extension treatment from the controllers, as a reward for doing what the controllers demand.
>the clock is ticking, and, at a select point in time, that option will be expired
There was a sci-fi film where, in the future, people have a timer clock on their wrists that counts down to death, unless they continually make payments to extend the timer. Or something like that. Anyone remember it?