It is my guess that it can be an ongoing net asset to the TS team to maintain some platform of contact and interest with the existing loyal consumer based that a) loved Glitch and b) just spent well over 100K in a couple of weeks on game related stuff. As such, I suspect it's probably worth it to the company to keep up on relatively low cost projects like maintaining the forum and keeping at least some assets available.
Developing more assets is beyond what I'd hoped for, and I take it as a very good sign. If you came up with some kind of subscription model to cover costs for this kind of stuff, or even a voluntary donation model, I think it would work.
I understand why the game itself wasn't sustainable due to the high costs and outdated code platform, but you know what the numbers are that you *can* realistically generate, right now, from the existing user base. If maintaining a small community platform and some scaled-back availability of assets is do-able, that looks like a win-win situation all around and I think we'd all be grateful for it.
A little piece of my heart jumped for joy reading this. Because I have worried about losing all of the information gathered there. The game may not be up but some of the info is forever awesome!!
I, too, would like to put sayings and conversations in the encyclopedia along with the thing that said it. I would like a lot of things, though, and we will see if I manage to get that one done.
Glitch is still a THING though... with, at least, Glitchamaphone. And with other games potentially coming out it'd be good to have somewhere that explains the story of Glitch and the world of Ur. Doesn't need to be an MMO... even though the MMO was glorious...
what dopiaza said, and I am not even a developer. I really need the Encyclopedia to stick around for a long, long time and I would even pays monies for a downloadable version.
Ooh, yes! A downloadable encyclopedia would be great. Imagine a mobile version, like a Pokédex! You never know when you need an on-the-spot reference tool. :)
Seriously, though - how great would a mobile version be where you could take a picture and have the app find the closest match in the encyclopedia? The GPS coordinates of the item sighting could get placed on a real-time online map and then we could locate all the sparkly, bare patches and Rook attacks. I wonder what would look like Rube IRL? Probably a lot of sightings on Easter Island. :P