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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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  • I've already posted to this thread, but I had to add these, just because they so poignantly captured my despairingly guttural reaction to the rook attack that was so powerful it ended all of Glitch:

    Hurty hurty hurty hurty rux. Pls make bettr?

    OMGiant teh RUX! It HURTZ. Pls. Pls halp.

    It hurtz. Still. Always. Pls halp.
    Posted 27 days ago by Ninetails Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glitch is one of my all-time favorite things.  I have so much love for it and all of the details of its world.  Every time I opened it up I was inspired anew and tickled anew.

    I actually cried when I found out it was ending.

    Thanks, Tiny Speck.
    Posted 27 days ago by Gear Bear Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I started playing in June, 2011. This has been a wonderful ride.
    Thank you, Stewart and all at Tiny Speck.
    Now I haven't played for a while, but the music and the art and the people are always in my thoughts, even when I let my subscription expire. I know this sounds foolish, but it was great, it was important in some mysterious way, that Glitch was here to come back some day.
    Posted 27 days ago by Ximenez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • (((TS)))

    may write more if I can find the words
    Posted 27 days ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am so incredibly sad to learn that Glitch closing. Even in my short time here, I have never seen a community as friendly, witty, involved, and courteous as this one. As much as I would like it to continue, I'm sure every possible avenue has been exhausted and I feel it would be selfish of me to ask the Tiny Speck team to put their financial futures on the line.

    The love and respect these developers show their players and employees is truly astounding. I am so impressed by the efforts that TS is putting into ensuring their staff is well taken care of and that the community is happy and well compensated for its few remaining weeks.

    Tiny Speck prides itself as "a small company building something enormous", and I for one can not wait to see what they do next. I choose not to see this as the end, but the beginning of something even more amazing, and even more preposterous!

    Until then, a big thank you to every single one of you who make this game great. Playing Glitch has been a delight, an inspiration, and an honor. It's an experience unlike any other. Though short-lived, these qualities alone makes it an undeniable success.

    I will always be a fan.

    Cindy
    Posted 27 days ago by Chibirella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So very sad :(

    Is there any chance that the art of the giants and the music could somehow be packaged and for sale so that we could buy it as mementos?
    Posted 27 days ago by Sunshine Tentacles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the fun while it lasted.  I'm not one of the hardcore players, but I really am sad to see the game will be gone soon.

    I need to go take something to soothe my upset tummy now.
    Posted 27 days ago by Ali'Sha Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The announcement that Glitch must come to an end was an abrupt one, and it made me wish that I had spent as much time playing in the launched version of the game as I did during alpha and beta. Tiny Speck, you all worked to make us an amazing world; I have never seen anything quite like Glitch! The memories created by everyone who helped make Glitch so special (both the creators and the players) will live on. I am amazed at the amount of vision this game has exhibited during my time playing, and I hope to see you all work together on future great games (possibly, plz, even a reboot or a spiritual successor of sorts to Glitch?). I understand that the downfall of this game hurts, but never stop reaching for the stars. If Tiny Speck ever creates another game in the spirit of Glitch (I know I'm not alone in hoping that you do), I'll be delighted and honored to play it.

    ♥♥♥
    Vexia
    Posted 27 days ago by Vexia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wish this link could be reopened or reposted.
    ----
    New Glitch song - Please Let Me Go Back to Groddle
    Ok, I'm waiting for the doors to open, sitting forlornly at my keyboard, so I thought I'd record this thing I was working on at the weekend. Quick and rough, and the lyrics aren't as polished as I'd like (needs moar scansion!)

    You can listen here and the lyrics are below.

    (Oh - the music is by me this time. Not quite up to that Woody Guthrie standard I'm afraid.)

    Please Let Me Go Back to Groddle

    Oh, please let me go back to Groddle,
    Let me carry my pick down a mine
    Oh please let me stroll through those forests,
    I can't bear to see the Game Closed sign.

    I just want to get up one more level,
    Just milk one more grouchy butterfly,
    Oh, please let me go back to Groddle,
    Let me cheer as the conga goes by.

    I just want to show off my new outfit,
    My new ears and the size of my nose,
    I'll be waiting right here at my keyboard
    I'll rejoice when the Game Closed sign goes

    Cos the game's going to come out of beta
    The game's going to start up for real
    And I'll have to try not to play Glitch all the time
    And eat sandwiches for every meal.

    We'll all start with no stuff and no currants,
    Not a skill to our name, and no bear
    But we'll party like Gli-itchmas anyway
    Hand out food just to show that we care.

    Cos the game's going to come out of beta
    The game's going to start up for real
    And I'll get my Glitch on every evening for sure
    I'll impress all the Giants with my zeal

    So please let me go back to Groddle,
    Being Glitchless just makes me pine
    Let me party with Glitchen in Groddle,
    Take down that old Ga-me Closed sign.

    Posted 14 months ago by Theremina Lute | Permalink
    Posted 27 days ago by Mollie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have just played for a few weeks I guess, and I've loved this game a lot! Its sad that I didn't find this site earlier, else I'd be able to play longer...

    I admire the staff's pride in making this awesome game and their courage to close it when the time is up. This game will always remind me of how good a browser game could be and I'll always be waiting for a day when another game is released by you guys ;)

    All in all thank you for all of the hard work and awesomesauces! :D
    Posted 27 days ago by shukugumo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Heartbroken is the best word to describe this feeling..I feel like we almost won the game. :'(
    Posted 27 days ago by Tigerstorm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was just telling my husband that you guys would sell this off and make other games!! I cant believe its going i will miss my friends and my cute avi. You are so talented and dedicated I hope you can replug into something with this and make it marketable. Best of luck to the staff and Group HUG to all the amazing generous super players here. going to cry in the corner now...
    Posted 27 days ago by Soytoy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am so sad. This game was all art and all heart.

    You don't find that very often.

    Blessings to all at TS. You made a lot of people feel happy and included. And even though it had to end sooner than we all wanted, you showed us all that it is possible ... even in our hard cold modern era ... to exist in a realm where kindness, generosity and civility were the norm.

    Thank you.
    Posted 27 days ago by Adar Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's a sad world we live in when a brilliant, funny, quirky, cute, interesting, enjoyable game like Glitch (and with such an amazing community and devs) is being shut down, while there are unoriginal, boring clones out there that are thriving.

    This is the first game that I've been actively playing that has shut down, so I'm pretty heartbroken over it—and not only for myself, but for all those at Tiny Speck who are losing not only their labour of love but their jobs as well. I can only wish them all the best in finding new work.
    Posted 27 days ago by Malkavian Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This game was amazing. I don't think I'd ever come across a game as great as this... This really makes me sad, as I've been only here for a while, but these updates keep on getting better and better, showing you're putting real effort into this. Thank you TS for a wonderful game.
    Posted 27 days ago by I Love You TS Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Better with snaps than words
    Not yet my friends
    Posted 27 days ago by FyodorD Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love you guys! Thank you so much for the amazing memories! <3 ;A; I'll remember this game forever.
    Posted 27 days ago by Polly Trog Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My husband said to me earlier, "So I found the TS Twitter feed, and I was reading it to see if they'd said anything about any way to save it. And I saw they couldn't, and I saw how sad all the replies to them were. I'm sorry."

    And I'm very sad. I'll miss everything and everyone.

    But it was a beautiful, funny, clever game, created by amazingly talented people, populated by wonderful people, and I really, truly enjoyed every moment I played.

    Thank you, everyone.
    Posted 27 days ago by Girl W. Parasol Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ;_; I've been playing for about a week, and was looking forward to exploring the whole world! 

    Now I r b sad panda. And I'll never again see a butterfly get irritated at me after giving me milx.
    Posted 27 days ago by Ysilandrael Subscriber! | Permalink
  • To Stoot and Tiny Speck team, 
    Thank you for letting me share your dream over the past 18 or 19 months.
    This game brought color and whimsy into many lives, and we are richer for having been a part of your world.  
    I wish you all the best in your future endeavors .
    Posted 27 days ago by RainCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think some of us always knew that this couldn't last. The end was inevitable. It's why we spent so much time playing when there were other things we rationally knew we should have been doing instead. Because this won't be here forever. 

    But it's the finite that gives things meaning. Endlessness is too big, too lonely, too peculiar in its old age. The best kinds of things can't last. That isn't to say this was some sort of perfection; perfect Glitch was not. But it was unique. Special, even. 

    Glitch is a snapshot of reality, in an unreality spliced with art and music. It is the antisocial social game. It is a spinning orb of contradictions, held together by its own chaotic momentum. Inevitably, it had to unravel, but the journey was thrilling.

    And so we end. But does anything really ever end? Or do we just go on, colliding and drifting apart indefinitely until the end of time?

    If there is one constant in this endless universe, it is this:

    Always Xev. Forever Xev.

    <3
    Posted 27 days ago by Xev Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow, I'm stunned. I thought Glitch had a chance. Good luck to everyone.
    Posted 27 days ago by Becky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am so sorry for all of you at Tiny Speck. I find myself wishing I'd done more to support this game, that somehow I could help save it.  I hope you all keep striving for the original and the delightfully weird in whatever the future holds for you. 

    Thanks for everything. 
    Posted 27 days ago by Verrain Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't play now without tearing up. I just played with the new tipi tent house... the little yeti print fabric made me cry... i will miss all the little beautiful things...:(
    Posted 27 days ago by Geeki Yogini Subscriber! | Permalink
  • <3 this game. I also wish I had found this game sooner. Awesome people i've met and those i wish i had the opportunity to meet. 

    Probably one of the best note i've read so far said something along the lines of 'lessons of Ur". Why not apply the game to real life? 

    Perform random acts of kindness. 
    High-five and hug someone. 
    Help out your neighbors.

    Be good to one another and remember the lessons of Ur.

    <3 ee-kai <3
    Posted 27 days ago by ee-kai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love and will miss you Glitch and Tiny Speck. Been a great 2 years of playing this adorable game. Thanks for at least giving us the chance to experience a f-ing awesome game. :)

    *hugs and smooches*
    Posted 27 days ago by Bunni3 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am sad to see glitch go, but dissapointed and angry.
    Mainly Angry.
    I have one big question: Why do you only refund the last 12 months purchases? What about the Alpha and original Beta testers, like myself, who pre-purchased subscriptions for a large amount of money, before anything was to come of that? We helped you get up and running, start what has come from this, to be shut out? Without us, there would be no glitch. So instead, you reward new players, who kept it alive for what, 2 months more? When we began this. We funded you, before it became popular. We funded you, before we knew if the world would even make it out of pre-launch beta. For what? To be completetly ignored.
    Posted 27 days ago by jjbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • jjbob, you make me literally Sick! :( You Got your money's worth in clothes and everything credits buy. Talk about selfish and Greedy..grrrrr. To Hades with your nasty self.
    Posted 27 days ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Anya, Did I get my moneys worth? When I had months emailing back and forward to Tiny Speck, about being unable to connect. You don't know me, so don't say anything.
    Posted 27 days ago by jjbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have believed in Glitch, Tiny Speck and both their predecessors for a long time, and I really thought this incarnation had a chance to make a go of it for at least a few years.

    I am so, so sad to see it go. I supported it as I could and hope that the creative minds behind all this will be able to have another chance at the perfect, funny, odd, non-violent, cooperative MMO.

    Thanks crazy people who helped me travel across the internet on a subway.
    Posted 27 days ago by Colette Subscriber! | Permalink
  • lol cry more jjbob. IF you couldn't connect then it was On YOU to unsubscribe until the issue was resolved...Not on TS.
    Posted 27 days ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • youtu.be/l95D7leeU3w
    Posted 27 days ago by Rudi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thing is, they were helpful. So I didn't. And this game is great. Clearly not all the players are great. Get a life, seriously. Yours is obviously over.
    Posted 27 days ago by jjbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • jjbob you are a tosser.  Didn't you rage-quit last month?  What's this, an encore?
    Posted 27 days ago by Miss Parsley Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This game got me through some really difficult times in my life. It really did. And it always managed to put a smile on my face.

    I loved Glitch and it loved back :)

    So thank you Stoot and all of TS!
    and Good Night Groddle.
    Posted 27 days ago by Codex Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You idiots think you are so amazing, because you can insult people? You have no idea what goes on in another persons life, do you?

    Miss Parsley, you and other idiots like you are ONE of the reasons I left. I didn't rage quit.

    Edit: Sorry to ruin everyone who actually enjoyed this games shutdown post, but these people are complete idiots. (I'm putting it nicely)
    Posted 27 days ago by jjbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks to the Glitch team for creating such an awesome game, for without it I couldn't have met so many awesome people, have known of such an interesting and special game and I wouldn't have a fun holiday! Glitch is a GAME LIKE NO OTHER! hope to see more from TS in near future! :)
    Posted 27 days ago by starburst_xx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I never played a ton, but I enjoyed every minute. I haven't played in a while, but I will still miss it. The thought, the imagination, the skill, the sheer work that went into creating this game, and the good-feeling, help-your-brother, we're-all-equals spirit behind it all will make it a beautiful moment in the history of gaming and in social interaction. I'm thrilled to have been a part of its all-too-brief history and will mourn the loss of all the crazy, genius, weird, lovely, intelligent, goofy, fun, lovable, people that put it together and that I encountered while playing it. It will be missed, and I know it's heart-wrenching for everyone, and I am still surprised how affected I am by this...more so than I imagined and to the point that I felt I must write, even in this rambly form. Best of luck to you all, both staff and players. May you all find happiness and joy in whatever great things you are certainly going to do. It has been an unmitigated pleasure to be part if this.
    Posted 27 days ago by Theodore Hornbuckle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is making me cry too guys. The best game I have ever beta tested, the best game I have ever played! and it's ending. I really loved you guys on staff, you showed me how gamers really should be treated. Now that's it's almost over, I guess my only regret is that I didn't stalk stoot as much in game as I had wanted to :'( GoodBye :'(
    Posted 27 days ago by TimeLord Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow... Stunned as well. I haven't played recently cuz I had played way too much up till then, and needed some new achievements and such to be added - but I was planning to come back... Guess it's now or never with that...
    Posted 27 days ago by gimmegames Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am beyond words. I hope the creative and talented people put so much wonderful humour and art into this will transition well into new endeavors. I have fallen in love. Just today I was extolling.

    I wish we could fix this... Fund-raise, kickstarter, direct donation, or something to help keep the lightbulbs on. But wishes are just the dreams of eleven giants.

    I will miss ur. This was the first online game my companion would play with me. I was just beginning to really figure out what I wanted out of it. I am so very sad.

    And I'm sad for all of those whose dreams are sundered by this. Thank you Tiny Speck folks.

    FYI, you should all apply at google. We need talented engineers and creative folk - especially folk who can understand software at scale and who can focus on the users. You guys did this in spades.
    Posted 27 days ago by Israfil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • pardon my french here... but.. fuck!

    my heart just sank a bit.

    no make that a huge bit. a huge chunk.

    i haven't read really any of this thread yet... but damn... this is the saddest thing i have hear all year.
    you guys are SO talented and made such an amazing thing! it's still in beta!!!

    i'm going to sulk a bit and wake up my fiancee to tell her the sad news... 

    :(
    Posted 27 days ago by sporks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glitches have said it, but it is so sad... pure fantasy is what you gave to me and I will miss very much hanging around here... Thanks for everything, ¡gracias!
    This has been really an horrible day... ¡chale!
    Posted 27 days ago by Tzi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • uggg.
    i actually feel physically upset by this!

    Glitch is such a beautiful and unique and creative entity that it just hurts so much to know it is going to die.

    i can't even imagine how it feels for the TS people who have put SO much into it.

    i'm sure you realize how much you have touched people and fostered an amazing online community.

    good luck to all of you and thank you so much for all you have done.
    Posted 27 days ago by sporks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I feel sick...to my stomach...I gave as much time as I could...I am a mother and my son is a priority but where I could not give my time I gave my money in support of this amazing and truly wonderful source of entertainment.......

    I can only imagine the disappointment that all the folk behind this game, who made it work and kept it running, must be feeling right now.  

    I have a HUGE self-pity pot since I really didn't think this game would take up such a big place in my life (like what Faunasphere had done) and quite frankly..Yes I am pissed off that games like these are not making it into the running.

    Surely there is a pattern here which can be avoided in the future.

    I am sorry for myself.....but I am also sorry it failed.
    Posted 27 days ago by Really Pissed Off Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I only started playing last week. I don't know, for some reason, it seems like I've been playing for months. I haven't been doing very well in real life, so I played Glitch like crazy. I'm now at level 18. 

    You guys have managed to enrapture me in the short period of a few days. You guys had Community references, endless internet memes I chuckled at, rambling supposedly inanimate objects, and the most beautiful, crazy scenery and settings. You made everything remarkably silly and lovely and I was blown away. You announced the closing one day after I decided to use my free subscriber month, which I guess is pretty appropriate timing, if the event itself is horrible.

    I'm rambling myself, but I'd just like to say that you guys were amazing. This is one of the best games I've ever played, and the only wish I have, disregarding the one I'd make to make Glitch last for as long as forever, was that we were given more notice to console ourselves. But real life does not make way for our plans. 

    I hope that you know, even with all the angry and sad messages, this would not have been possible without you guys, and I'm sure everybody thanks you from within themselves. Truly, thank you for all the work you've put into this. We'll stand by you no matter what happens, because it's become stunningly evident what talented people you are. If you guys ever make anything, I'll be sure to check on it and probably throw money at it.

    I'm really going to miss this game. For all the more seasoned players, I'd say it's been a spectacular three years. Nothing lasts for long, it seems. But I'm thankful to have the time we have left. Folks, it's been a honour playing with and aside you. 

    When the last day comes, we're going to party hard and die young as the world around us comes apart at the seams pixel by pixel, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
    Posted 27 days ago by Maria Diatorre Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am so so much better for having played with all of you - both devs and players. It's been a great community to be a part of, and I'm glad to know you all are still in the real world at least. We will meet again...
    Posted 27 days ago by gimmegames Subscriber! | Permalink
  • To quote Terrence McKenna, who was paraphrasing some William Blake, in a song by Shpongle ,"Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost".

    Tiny Speck let us all be part of something bigger than ourselves. To be part of art. To be voices and minds in a vibrant, weird and funny community.
    And it hurts beyond words that it is coming to an end, but the fact that it hurts so much is a testament to what has been accomplished by TS & the Glitchens they brought together.

    Thanks for everything.
    Posted 27 days ago by sporks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would love to have seen all the other animals, the ones that we didn't get a chance to 'vote-in' yet... the alpaca, the kangaroo, monkey, the moose, goat, mole, rabbit, rat, sheep , and toad.
    Posted 27 days ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Can't believe what I'm reading. I was sure the beautiful and lovely Glitch had a bright future ahead of it: Coming out of beta 2, press release, booming with new players, support for multiple devices (PSN, XBox Live, iOS, Android). I certainly didn't see this one coming. I'm sad and flabbergasted.

    Thanks for making one of the most original games I've ever played.

    Just one question: Why have you guys never really launched the game? I've never seen reviews on gameshows and websites. I can't stop feeling that a real 'launch' would have brought millions of players to the game.
    Posted 27 days ago by Niks Subscriber! | Permalink
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