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Hab
Dearest Brent/Kukubee, I just want to thank you - REALLY thank you - for taking the time that you have taken over these weeks to talk about this very difficult subject. It is getting touchy now even for those of us who have tried to stay upbeat about it, because, I think for me at least, the loss - the monumental loss - is finally becoming real. At first I was in denial - wouldn't talk about it, wouldn't go to the forums, would only go to my little house and play by myself, pretending like it wasn't going to happen. Then I started thinking about it. Went to the forums - posted sad but loving posts about our beautiful world and all the things I would miss. Then, when you and Dan (and others) started your efforts to save what you could of Glitch, somehow it didn't seem so bad again. I felt like it (and I) would be okay. And then (though please don't take this as any lack of appreciation for your efforts - I am still so totally stoked to have the book coming, and am ordering a CD & music box as soon as I have the cash this week, as well as being on the waiting list for the next go-round of pouches), I realized that NONE of this would bring it back. It could only ever be memories. From now on. Forever. I cried again when people started saying goodbye here on the update page, that they couldn't hang around anymore because there was no point. And then... I think that's when it happened. Things started getting quietly, understatedly angry with many of us who have never been that way. We started questioning the closing for the first time - wondering if it was purely a business deal - get what you can from it and get out. People brought up Flickr, and I (thank heaven) had my computer delete a reply I made that well, stoot was a businessman first and foremost, what did we expect. (Oh GOD - I can't believe I told on myself). I kicked myself for two days and didn't come back to the update page because I felt so bad about saying something like that when you ALL have obviously done everything and more so far above and beyond to give us everything you can of this game. Even to have left the site up for us to communicate - the forums - even (the closet of my dreams) the wardrobe?!!! It is just so clearly the action of people who care about other people and about doing the right thing as much as possible. There IS no other explanation. Stoot was even posting snaps a week after closing. Now tell me those are the actions of a cold-hearted business-only dude. So okay, I have rambled quite a bit here, forgive me, all of you, but it just means a GREAT DEAL to me coming from you, Kukubee - with all the craziness you have going right now with the projects - that you would take the time to look at these last few posts from us last few hangers-on, and actually be completely, truly honest. It helps readjust my attitude, because although anger IS a legitimate part of grief, it isn't healthy to stay there, and Glitch is something I want to always remember fondly - not have some niggling feeling that SOMEBODY could have done SOMETHING to save it and didn't. Let's face it - Glitch WAS really unusual - for me that was a great thing, but for mass marketing, yeah - I can see it might not be so good. It sucks, but its true. How many times, people out there, have you said - damn it! I loved that show - why did they cancel it and WHY is Keeping Up with the Kardashians still on the effing air?!!! (Sorry to all of you who love the K's) It's just a matter of - unusual not being enough of a draw to make a good living at. Anybody watch Firefly (the Sci Fi series)? Perfect example. Hilarious - unusual - great characters - rich with color... just a BIT too unusual to make it. And like Glitch, the people involved were really broke up about leaving it. Tried to save it. But in the end, it was numbers. I have always been an unusual person - creative, artistic, a bit poetic - didn't meet many people like that, EXCEPT HERE. So, it stands to reason really - now that I think of it. Yes it seems like there were quite a few of us, but realize, people that we were all over the world - from everywhere - and put that into perspective with any other big mass-market game, TV show, whatever, and you have to see that we just weren't enough. I can see it now. I couldn't before, and so for me, that's why your comment here meant so much. Thanks again. *sigh* (((Kukubee))) Love and hugs to my fellow hangers-on if you managed to hang with me through this post. :')
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Minkey
I could write an equally lengthy (gee, or five billion times lengthier) response to you or I could just say a few short things: A) OMG, you're so sweet and cute; B) glad you deleted and were honest about the stoot message but don't be so hard on yourself...seriously; C) Firefly, yes. K thing, no, never (I also mean no offense for those who do the K thing); D) yep, beyond unusual; E) Awww, I think I love you!!
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Shmoopie Kerfuffle
Oh, you are so right about the popularity of stupid and the lack of interest in anything with complexity or depth. The same thing can be said for serious music, art, liturature...most people today don't even know what they ARE. I can see it now too. Back when the game was relaunched, I wondered at the dumbing down and simplification of some things, like why are we able to have all types of trees, rocks, barnicles, fireflies, etc. in our yards? I didn't especially like it, and thought it made the game too easy. But now I realize that the devs thought that by simplifying things, they could attract and retain more players. This really saddens me, because it indicates what we have become in just a few decades. There was a time that much emphasis was placed on the Liberal Arts, and it was believed that one couldn't be truly educated without it. Now we are spoon fed pop culture and taught no appreciation for the arts, which is the category I would place Glitch in. It was art. It was complex, and clever, and special. Most people today don't get that.
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Shmoopie Kerfuffle
Oh, and, LOL, I deleted my earlier post about Stoot being a businessman first, too :)
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chilirlw
And this is precisely why many of us were so determined to try to find a new place to be together--we hadn't had the experience of meeting so many like-minded people in one place before!
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Gegnar
"At first I was in denial - wouldn't talk about it, wouldn't go to the forums, would only go to my little house and play by myself, pretending like it wasn't going to happen. Then I started thinking about it." Right there with you. I realized I was in denial about the whole thing when, 60 some minutes til the end, I still had all my stuff in my bags. I thought I had been handling it - I made quests for myself, "I must visit every street before the end" etc. and thought I was coping well...Until I noticed that I was still hanging on to everything as if it would be there for me later. That was when the THIS-IS-IT feeling began to hit and gather momentum until the very end. I cried for a while and it still gets me sometimes if I think about it much. However I will be eternally grateful for this shared experience, and for the confirmation that not everyone is a batshit violent self-obsessed lunatic, but in fact a lot of people are very kind and generous (& a little weird certainly doesn't hurt.) :)
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Brib Annie
I agree with most of what you said. I often wonder why "stupid" and "mindless" and "voyeurism" are all so popular and successful and Beauty and Creativity have to take a back seat and more often fail. TV is full of Reality shows. Why? They are much cheaper than shows that require scripts and actors and wardrobe, etc. Almost anyone just out of school could make a successful reality show but how many of them can make "Firefly" or "Downton Abbey" and make them pay? Here on the WEB, Zynga rules. Why? They make you PAY daily. If you want to move on, get ahead, have it all, then you can Dollar yourself to death at Zynga and it's like. People often pay more in a month for those games than I paid for a year at Glitch. I have tried several games now. All are very good and all cost more than Glitch and none are half as good or creative as Glitch but they are successful. I guess I would rather have nearly two years of Glitch or Faunasphere than 10 years of Zynga. It's just my preference and not meant as a particular dig at Zynga and it's like. They do what they do well. I am very happy to have all of the keepsakes that I have and that will come to me "soon". I appreciate the open Assets and everything the team has given us and I wish them much success in the future. Somehow I think that Stoot will find his "game" one way or another, something that will make a profit and can also be appreciated and loved for it's genius. I am staying "tuned"!
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Shmoopie Kerfuffle
Oh, and, LOL, I deleted my earlier post about Stoot being a businessman first, too :)
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