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The official shutdown thread …

Glitch is closing. The details are here: www.glitch.com/closing/

We will do our best to answer everyone's questions (but please take a moment to read the announcement and FAQ before jumping in). Information on refunds is here: www.glitch.com/closing/refu...

Over the next few weeks we'll going to be releasing all kinds of things that were saved for later, nearly-done, previously-shelved or are in various states of design. We will do our best to help everyone get the most of the time which remains — you've all been given (or will shortly be given) 2,500 credits and a free subscription.

New signups and payments are now closed.

I feel sick.

[Edited to add, a few hours later]: I feel much better. Thank you everyone, for all the love! Amazing, beautiful and touching.

Posted 28 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Glitch is closing. 

    So hard to type those words, and I don't think I can say them out loud.

    I'm crying. Thank you, Tiny Speck. You didn't let us down. Thank you, everyone who has ever been on this page. Thank you, my fellow players. When the day comes, I'll have been playing for ~1.5 years. I'm only sorry I didn't start playing sooner.
    Posted 28 days ago by Xacau Feera Blin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • and you're ABSULUTELY sure we can't do anything to stop this? ?

    like, if everyone would pay a little and that would help to keep the game? I would certainly be willing to pay for playing. or we could all make donations?
     
    please don't kill everything!!!
    Posted 28 days ago by rhabarber Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My heart dropped into my stomach when I came here to find out Glitch was closing. This game was the absolute epitome of innovative creativity and relaxing fun. I loved every single aspect and truly wanted it to keep going for a long, long time so that I could keep playing for a long, long time. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself indulging in this absolutely preposterous yet kind of likable game. It was artfully crafted with wonderful music and a sort of magic about its entire existence.

    Thank you, Tiny Speck, for creating something irreplaceable and lovely. In the words of a previous Glitchen, may Glitch rise again. <3
    Posted 28 days ago by Armadillo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's really a shocking news...I'm very sad, you created an incredible game, I enjoyed every moment of the gameplay. It was a beautiful adventure, and I'm happy to say: "I was there".
    Thank you Tiny Speck, thank you a lot.
    Posted 28 days ago by PyP0 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I only started playing this game recently, having noticed Anna Pickard's recommendation of it on twitter. It's invaded my life, my boyfriend giggles that I play this while he plays GTA. It was such a beautiful, heartwarming game that I loved. I'm always found on it when my boyfriend gets up in the morning, when he wants to distract me he tells me to play Glitch. I love having the app on my phone. I don't want to delete it. Thank you so much for this short, but very sweet, experience. 
    Posted 28 days ago by tlchimera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Quite a wonderful bit of world-building you did here. Thanks for sharing all of Ur with us, Tiny Speck.
    Posted 28 days ago by unicyclr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glitch was beautiful in the way few things only Imagine they could be.

    Thanks for an amazing 20 months of fun, stoot. I'll go out on the last night still saying "If only we had HOT TUBS!!!!" :P

    (((hugs)))
    Posted 28 days ago by Dagnabbit Rabbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why, why.....

    So nice and peaceful game. So much potential and never released to public.

    This is sad...very sad day...

    Well i'm still thankfull to all in TS for giving me a chance to play Glitch...

    Good luck guys and gals in your next projects

    :'(
    Posted 28 days ago by Lilla My Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's a horrible shame that it is closing, I've gotten to play with great people and had great staff on hand to help when needed. Also has been a great deterrent from my university work.

    I do have one suggestion for the closing though.
    On the last day of the game when it is near the end of the time, could everyone's log out say instead of : "you were about to win the game", everyone could have "YOU WON THE GAME!" as a good bye to everyone. 
    Posted 28 days ago by Sparkkitty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Such an unique game!!!! I still canoot believe this coming true(((( The only MMO I was ever playing and wanted to play. I still hope you guys will find some way out to proceed with the operations, because that just cannot be true! The best, the kindest, the funniest game ever! My heart is really-really broken. Wonderful Imagination world...............
    Posted 28 days ago by bumz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lets all be there when it closes and listen to Goodnight Groddle for the last time...

    Can someone post the link to GNG music. Please!

    EDIT:  I found it :) Goodnight Groddle
    Posted 28 days ago by Lilla My Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Stoot, can i request that you still have the facebook and twitter?
    Posted 28 days ago by Kristabel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :(
    Posted 28 days ago by karathrace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Surprised how sad I am at this news. Getting a little teary. WHO WILL FEED MY PIGGIES?
    Posted 28 days ago by Sean Cocteau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A question for staff. Is this the end of Tiny Speck or will new projects be started?
    Posted 28 days ago by LtlBoyBlue Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just

    My heart went

    <3!

    <3???

    </3!!!!
    Posted 28 days ago by Sororia Rose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is so sad, i feel like crying, but i'm at work.. might be difficult to explain!

    Glitch was not a failure. So well realized, funny, intelligent.. I've never seen such good writing in a game. and it attracted such a lovely community of people

    i'll miss you Glitch and Glitchen..
    Posted 28 days ago by sev Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Noooo! This makes me so very sad! :'~(

    Glitch has been the only game where I can just walk around and do whatever I want without having to worry about fighting or levelling, and it's been so nice! And everyone here are so lovely, both staff and other players. <3

    Is there nothing we can do? I'm a student and thus haven't subscribed (yet - it's been tempting), but I will for a month or to if it'll help. Have you thought about a Kickstarter for either the game itself or just for advertising? I'd pay!

    (Also, I haven't even learned everything yet, there's still stuff I haven't been able to do!)
    Posted 28 days ago by Rannera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm so going to miss Glitch. It was the perfect way to de-stress after long days studying, and a great way to share an environment with friends who live halfway across the globe. I have no idea what I'll replace it with, but it will likely never compare to Glitch.

    Thank you so much, TS. You guys and gals are incredible. I'll miss all your hard work. <3!
    Posted 28 days ago by Nyx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Made me very sad logging on and seeing this.
    But thank you Stoot and all developers and other Staff members likewise! It was very enjoyable looking forward to logging in every day to chat with friends, get those few badges or get that one level up, tower expansion, rare tiem that we had been craving for.
    Best wishes to all of you out there!
    NiFi will miss you all *hugs* xox
    Posted 28 days ago by NiFi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've only been playing this game for a couple of weeks but from the first few minutes, I was utterly hooked. When I started playing, the internet hadn't been set up in our new house so I had to keep going to the pub to use their wifi, just to keep playing. I got the app to satisfy my Glitch cravings when that wasn't an option. It's a fantastic game and one I saw myself and my friends playing for quite some time to come. I just wish I'd dragged more than two people here in the time I had so more people could have shared its brilliance.
    Posted 28 days ago by pana Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Like others, I'm very sad of this... So hard to see an awesome game, a wonderful community, having to stop.

    Thank you, all the TS staff, for all your work. You are very very very talented, and I have no doubt that you have a great future in web gaming. Please let us know if you start another project...

    To be honest, that was the first time I really played an interactive web game in english. I'm not a native speaker, and (don't make fun of me, I'd like to see you participating in a chat/forum in a foreign language!), it really helped me improve my english.

    For all the fun I had, for all the people I met here, thank you. I'm sorry I can't find other words to say it. Thank you.
    Posted 28 days ago by Sekhmet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've actually been here long enough to have the privilege of renewing my subscription. I'd gladly donate at least one year of it to buying a couple bottles of bourbon for you guys. It was an amazing run and I hope somehow when you all get together for the next big game we get alpha invites (I'll pay that time too).
    Posted 28 days ago by Peep Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is an extremely sad day... I guess the only thing to say is "So long, and thanks for all the fun."
    We will miss you terribly.
    Posted 28 days ago by Lone Druid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wishing you all the best in real life, glitch is a game bringing out all the best of us, hope this idea wont get lost! tank you all for best time i ever had in internet!!! Good luck to you all - you deserve it
    Posted 28 days ago by Lechat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Loved the game. Spent a lot of time here. Never thought I'd have to give up Cubimals. They will just be in my dreams now. 

    Ah well.

    Thanks guys for the memories. And a big F*ck you to everyone I hate in this game 

    Posted 28 days ago by Jessenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glitch has helped me through some of the darkest days our family has seen. It was an escape from hard realities, for a while.  Thank you.  God bless your new endeavors.
    Posted 28 days ago by Ethelind Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hadn't been really playing for the last couple months but I _still_ kept up with the boards and changelog. I checked it every day. Gonna miss you all terribly. =(
    Posted 28 days ago by Fauxfire π Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm a rather new member of this game - but I really enjoyed the difference, the wit and all the stuff which has made Glitch to a awesome place to be.Its a sad thing to see it closed - so here my thanks for all the work it was put in this awesome Game - tc in rl and stay awesome
    Posted 28 days ago by twiddeldi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the second game ever that has had me chatting with other players I didn't know, and posting on the Forums... Thank you, TS, for creating a place where there can be such a community, and thank you, everyone, for being part of it all.

    There's not much left to say that hasn't been said already... so I guess...
    So long and thanks for all the Salmen...
    So sad that it should come to this...
    Posted 28 days ago by dfmchfhf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've only been playing Glitch for a few weeks, and in that time I have been hooked. I loved it. For the first time I understood why people got hooked on online games (I'd never played anything on the computer before, bar the odd game of Solitaire.) I've enjoyed my time in Ur so much.

    I'm so sad to learn it will be no more, and feel like the door to a wonderful, magical world has been slammed in my face. Which in a way, it has. How the long-term Glitchen - and even more, the creators and developers - must feel, I have no idea. It's made me sad that games about fighting and killing and gore make millions, and a lovely game about creativity, imagination and community goes to the wall. I saw a staff member on Global mention 'failure' - I said then and I'll say again, there was no failure in your creation of Glitch. The failure of the world to appreciate it is not your failure.

    I have been in awe of the beauty, the imagination, the creativity, the wit and humour you created. What a wonderful, wonderful world you made. Thank you. 
    Posted 28 days ago by Schiehallion23 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you TS for giving us the time to "finish" with the game and all the great friends we've made along the way!  I feel I have been part of something substantial regardless of the fact Glitch is coming to and end.  Please, please, when the game closes the final time, give me a pop-up that says "You Won!" and a bazillion img with 999 bazillion currents!
    Posted 28 days ago by teet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I feel so sad right now.
    Glitch has been a significant part of my life for the last two years.
    I cannot believe it's ending.

    Thank you for EVERYTHING.
    You guys are great. Beyond awesome.
    I'll miss you all.

    I feel a little sick too.
    Posted 28 days ago by Moumoushou Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *Cry*
    Posted 28 days ago by Berry Goode Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you TS for giving me an opportunity to make friends from all over the world and to have lots of fun in what is a unique internet game. So sorry to see it go but understand the reasons why. In an ideal world some government or other would fund the game for its stress relieving and social properties. I feel sick, too but will endeavour to enjoy the remaining time we have left and thanks for the credits *hhuuggsss*
    Posted 28 days ago by Moz Art Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This game has been a real joy, so, just thank you. Thank you all so very very much xxx
    Posted 28 days ago by Slippy (Throb) Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh wow, this sure is depressing :(
    Glitch is definitely one of the best MMO's I've ever played (and I've played quite a few).
    Funny, imaginative, relaxing, interesting, I could go on forever...
    I'm shocked that this amazing game didn't reach a bigger audience and I'm saddened by the fact that so many will not have had the opportunity to to experience it.

    I wish all the employees at Tiny Speck the best of luck with your, no doubt, amazing and wonderful futures!

    <3
    Posted 28 days ago by Bif Jerkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • In Glitch I found all I needed in a game - and way much more. Thanks for your time, passion, and imagination.
    Posted 28 days ago by Hig Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good night, Groddle :(

    Thank you, Tiny Speck, for being a sterling example of what a game company should be and operate. Your game, like so many wonderful things, went before its time.
    Posted 28 days ago by shipwreck Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Have you guys considered a Kickstarter? I'm sure there are LOADS of people on here that would be willing to back you....

    I sure as hell would....
    Posted 28 days ago by Marky Thirteen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I know I was just a tiny character in a big game, but my love, admiration, and respect for
    all of you at Tiny Speck is hu-uuge!

    Thank you all for a great experience!

    Good Night Groddle,
    love and hugs from,
    ~Scilly~, ~Kaydee~, and Salakee (me, myself, and I)
    Posted 28 days ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wanted to add some more things I really loved about Glitch:
    -THE KEYBOARD CONTROLS. So much the keyboard controls. I loved that almost everything could be done via keyboard. It was so wonderful for my arthritic hands to have a game I could play that didn't hurt them as much as endlessly clicking and dragging a mouse, so thank you, Tiny Speck. <3
    -TII. Tii was my favorite Giant of all. Genderless/gender-neutral/genderqueer math gods!!! Can't think of other games off the top of my head that can boast that.
    -Always loved the humor. Such a great combination of cute, playful, silly, dirty, and fun. I will always remember milking butterflies, etc. <3
    Posted 28 days ago by Touya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • NOOOOOOO! No, no, no, no, no. Sob.
    Posted 28 days ago by Mr.Stink Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just rushed home, excited, from work to continue working on being in the top 200 people to reach level 60 first, now I just feel sick.

    Sad and sick
    Posted 28 days ago by riscy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Been playing for over a year now...I read somewhere that most players leave an MMO after only about 24 hours...and in spite of its closing, this speaks volumes for the endless talent and creativity that drew me in and kept me here!

    Thanks from the bottom of my little Glitchy heart to all at Tiny Speck who kept me amused and amazed for almost 400 days...just because you're closing doesn't mean I won't still hum the theme song while I cook in RL!

    (((hugs)))
    Posted 28 days ago by Dahlia DreadNaught Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wishing all the staff at TS good luck as you pursue other endeavors.  I shall truly miss my time spent in game, forgetting the realities of life. 
    Posted 28 days ago by MzMunchken Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am going to miss this game so very much. I hope one day you will come back. This is an awesome game, and I can honestly say it was the best online game Ive ever played. I'll miss you TS!!!
    Posted 28 days ago by Serenity's Mommy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not being able to run around Ur and enjoy the most beautiful art I have ever seen in a game, watching my avatar scratch her butt, talking to paranoid bubble trees, harvesting paper, munching on purple and chatting with dear friends makes me sad already.
    Glitch is so much more than a game. It has been my home and I have enjoyed every minute I had the honor of being part of this world of insane beauty beyond imagination.

    Thank you, Tiny Speck, for creating a place I love deeply and for giving me a new home after the heartbreaking end of GNE. It's been a blast.

    Thank you all for 33 wonderful months.
    Posted 28 days ago by Mina Subscriber! | Permalink
  • thanks for all you did.
    Posted 28 days ago by little peep Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the end of Glitch. It's so awkward to say this. When I learned it this morning, first I didn't realized. I was just telling me "It's impossible, it's just a joke". Then I realized. And I nearly cried. Because I think this game is the best online game I ever played. It was just pure creativity, with a really great community. Pure awesomeness. I only discovered Glitch last summer but I can't count the time I spent in this fabulous world.
    But of course, it has to end. I think I will probably play the game a lot before the closing and record everything and upload videos on youtube, to make sure that it will never be forgotten.

    Thank you so much Tiny Speck for creating this game. Good luck, I bet the next months will be difficult for everyone. 
    And also, thanks to all Glitchens. You will miss me. A lot :'(.

    (PS : Sorry if my english is bad, i'm French.)
    Posted 28 days ago by FrozenTux Subscriber! | Permalink
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