Another one bites the dust
oriste
Metaplace a few times after the demise of Google Lively. The official
announcement is on their blog but you have to login, so I copied it
below.
oriste
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metaplace.com is closing on january 1, 2010
Today we have unfortunate news to share with the Metaplace community.
We will be closing down our service on January 1, 2010 at 11:59pm
Pacific. The official announcement is here and copied below, and you
can read a FAQ guide here. We will be having a goodbye celebration
party on January 1st at 12:00noon Pacific Time.
Over the last several years, we here at Metaplace Inc. have been
working very hard to create an open platform allowing anyone to come
to a website and create a virtual world of their own.
Unfortunately, over the last few months it has become apparent that
Metaplace as a consumer UGC service is not gaining enough traction to
be a viable product, requiring a strategic shift for our company.
We’re sorry to announce today that Metaplace.com will be closing to
the public at 11:59pm on January 1st, 2010.
This is a bittersweet moment for us. Metaplace Inc the company will be
continuing on – in fact, we have big plans – but what you the users
have known as Metaplace will be going away. We are also losing some
friends and colleagues here as part of this strategic shift.
We’d rather dwell on the good than the sad. You, the users, have done
amazing work here, and we want to celebrate it. We may not have
managed to reach our goals with Metaplace.com and Metaplace Central,
but we still had a lot of fun, watched creativity flower, visited
amazing places, and made a lot of friends. We’ve had amazing guest
speakers, more parties than we can count, live concerts, movie
premieres and art shows; we’ve seen you make adventures and schools
and churches and games and countless other sorts of worlds that would
otherwise never have been created.
In that spirit, we want to treat these next two weeks more as a
celebration of the good times. We invite you all to come back to see
all of the amazing worlds that you have made. Registration will remain
open, so you can show off to your friends. Remote embeds will remain
active until the last day as well.
We’ll be turning off billing immediately, and refunding everyone for
all purchases in the month of December as well as subscription
payments that apply to December and future months. This month is on
us. We are suspending regular customer service, but the support site
will remain open for now in case there are any critical billing
issues.
We know many of you have done work here that you would like to
preserve. Please do use this time to capture screenshots, data,
scripts, movies, and assets. We have a FAQ that explains how to
retrieve assets from the service.
When other worlds have reached a sunset point, people have lost touch
with each other. We’ve made a lot of friends here and we’re sure that
you have too, so we don’t want that to happen. We have created a forum
site athttp://www.metaplaceveterans.com that will be operational soon,
so that you can all keep in touch with one another.
Finally: we want to treat the 1st of January as a celebration, rather
than a sad moment. Please join us on that day for a party, starting at
noon Pacific time. If Metaplace.com has to go, we want to go out with
style, with joy, and with the same sense of fun that we have always
had. Let’s celebrate the journey, not the ending. There will be meeps
– count on it.
We’re sure you have many questions about all of this – and there’s a
detailed FAQ that we hope answers them. Click here to read it.
In the meantime, we want to thank you all for your support, your
effort, your creativity, and your loyalty. We know that many of you
will be disappointed by this outcome. We are too. We are embarking on
a new and exciting direction, and it feels strange not to have you all
along for the ride.
It has been a privilege to have had you here with us on this great
adventure, and we hope that this community – this wonderful, engaged,
passionate, friendly community – lives on and on.
We’ll miss you -- and we hope to see you again.
Metaplace Team
Shiakara
Imajika
Imaijka
I'm sad for the Metaplace users, it all sounds too familiar.
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You do not have to foresee the future, but to allow it...
Malon Wyngard
belavar
wicked-witch write the killer message,
but it's still the same old same old.
Saya Lee
passionate, friendly community – lives on and on.
We’ll miss you -- and we hope to see you again. "
Saya
