I've noticed a lot of people have begun to sell their houses or apartments due to the beta unlaunch. will there be an announcement made if you guys decide to restart the game so that we have time to remove and sell our property?
there shouldn't be a restart. They said there is only a SMALL chance of a reset, only if they really really have to. I think most are selling because of the new housing situation that is going to be launched soon.
There is no reason to sell your house. Just keep playing as you normally would. Tiny Speck will not do anything that imposes on us the need to do something in-game that we wouldn't want to do anyway. When the housing changes come along TS will make them as graceful as possible. If we have to move they will give us a way to make it painless. Just relax and trust that the folks who made Glitch great are only going to make it better.
I definitely would not sell right now. Yes there will be housing changes but at this point there is no ETA when it will take effect so you could be homeless for quite a while. Also TS has not said yet that will lose our existing house, its possible that when the change is implemented we will still have our address and there will be just a different house there that can be modified.
My theory is that when the new housing is rolled out, we will all log on to find our houses gone and everything that was contained in them put into 'moving boxes' for us. Then we have some time to find a new place to live and unpack our 'stuff.' I can't see any other way for them to roll out a coordinated new housing type except for a reset. And we don't want a reset, correct?
Live for the moment, enjoy the game. Roll with the changes. And that means it probably wouldn't be that good an idea to sell your house. The reason for the housing mobility right now is the new areas and housing blocks recently brought out. And the fact that they've brought them out indicates they know we all want 'a place of our own' for the time being and there's no reason to think we need to panic, liquidate everything, and become a community of homeless.
I don't know much about economics, but I'm starting to think this is such a strange minicosmic snapshot of the real-world economy. One small mention of something possibly happening and suddenly a good portion of players is up in arms and wants to sell their houses?
I don't mean to be mean but I'm kind of shocked by how people have responded to this whole thing.
Circe - It happens in any on-line group, whether a game or a forum for other purposes. I've been playing Second Life for several years and it's the same way there.
I sold my house, but because I wanted to try a different style of game play.
There's no reason to be selling your house, unless you want to do something different. Don't let the possibilities of the future keep you from playing how you would normally, or at least not without more information on those possibilities.
Well thank you all do much for the feedback. I do hope that the creators inform us if we have to move out if they make a reboot. And I will not move until it happens.