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Lyrical DejaVu
I've thought the same thing many times. Closing the game, seemed very abrupt, and quite throwing in the towel-ish. Now don't get me wrong we know ti had its problems. And we also know there's things we were never informed about. And flash was an issue but mostly it was the scapegoat used for closing down the site. At the very least, the game should of had lots of advertising and an official relaunch, AND tell the devoted players here that it was an all-or-nothing scenario. Because we would of hit all the social media sites HARD, to spread the word about the game. As it stands and as bad as it is the game was shut down, its just plain hurtful, that we weren't given any indication, or opportunity to try an save it If we had tried but failed at least we would of TRIED. And the game closing wouldn't of been as hard on us. Instead it feels like there was deception and the rug was pulled out from under us. Now i realize its not the easiest thing, to let people know the game might be in trouble. And yes the staff was always on top of things, cared and was good to us. But we cared about the staff as well. Because of this, I'm more surprised that we hadn't been told, I ecspected if need be we WOULD of been. Thing is the staff themselves werent told, which raises a whole slew of other issues. Bottom line, trying would of been better than not trying at all....
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Ayasta
Well said, but I was also thinking. You remember that feat to invite people? That may have been our all of nothing thing, sadly. of course we didn't know, we got angry about it and whatnot, but I think if we (the players) actually knew, we wouldn't have protested like we did.
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Shmoopie Kerfuffle
Stoot said this was his decision. Several things pointed to the fact that none of the other devs knew until shortly before the announcement was made to us. Example: I was invited to be a guide the day before closing was announced. Whoever was responsible for sending me that message obviously didn't know. I think Stoot decided that the other project he was already working promised to be more lucretive. He's a businessman. So that combined with the problems with Flash contributed to his decision.
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Stoot said this was his decision. Several things pointed to the fact that none of the other devs knew until shortly before the announcement was made to us. Example: I was invited to be a guide the day before closing was announced. Whoever was responsible for sending me that message obviously didn't know. I think Stoot decided that the other project he was already working promised to be more lucretive. He's a businessman. So that combined with the problems with Flash contributed to his decision.
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Lyrical DejaVu
I know, i guess its just Im more perplexed than mad about the whole situation. As good as they treated us in how they closed the game, why it was closed was sudden and completely unexpected. That and I'm not the type to just give up when things get difficult, I'd try absolutely everything i could first, nor would I keep people in the dark when its going to affect them. The whole thing seems too throwing in the towel-ish, and "this is my project so its my burden, to make it work, and its ONLY my burden" ...pride issues. And yes, i am a bit disgruntled, and bitter at this point, it does still get me upset.
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Justin
My thoughts exactly. TS still had money, therefore all the options were not yet exhausted. It was honorable of them to offer refunds, but let's be honest with ourselves? Would the vast majority of Glitchen out there have wanted their money back, or a shot at keeping open that which we loved so dearly?
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