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The Reset

It's time (almost). Time to let go, time to start afresh. Time to reset.

You said to make it painless, and we did our best job ripping off the proverbial band-aid for the last time. By the beginning of next test you'll find that most of your possessions have vanished. Here's a list of what to expect. This is, verily, the last test before the reset.

Everyone freak out! Or not. We haven't forgotten everything you've done to help Glitch make the unforgettable, addicting game it is, and there'll be another test (starting next week) before the flood gates open! You'll have Glitch to yourself for a little longer.

What will *you* be doing on the eve of this brave new Ur?

See also: a blog post on this very topic.

Posted 15 months ago by Blanky Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • *faints* .... will come back and comment appropriately when I've recovered! :)

    still recovering.... but I too want to Thank TS and all the Devs for the great work they have done! I have enjoyed been part of this beta testing and look forward to the amazing things I'm sure we'll see in the future! xo
    Posted 15 months ago by BumbleBeez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • EMBLEM MOUNTAIN. Where?
    Posted 15 months ago by bugeye Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh this is exciting news!  I'll miss my stuff, but it will be fun to start over.
    Congrats TS!
    Posted 15 months ago by Stormy Weather Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey Blanky...when's launch then? Do we have time between? :)
    Posted 15 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eep! I feel like I should run around my house and gaze longingly at it all. Oh Isalan Interval House -- you did me so right.
    Posted 15 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bugeye- I have many to contribute if you want them. Where?
    Posted 15 months ago by Kira Bajira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Launch is … when launch is. Another test will start before launch.
    Posted 15 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Omg. It's kinda like the fake end of the world everyone keeps predicting is really happening in Ur. I'm happy, I'm sad- I'm.... *sigh* I dont know what!
    Posted 15 months ago by NutMeg Botwin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Whoaaaa! Man, I better take note of all the music blocks I like so I can look for them again! It's gonna be interesting, and kinda fun, to start all over again!

    So will Beta Testers get anything commemorative to keep for when the full game opens?? I'd love to have some sort of item, even a badge saying we were the first people to play the game.
    Posted 15 months ago by AlexanderTheGreat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Huzzah!  *throws confetti*
    Posted 15 months ago by Fleep Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh dear lord
    Posted 15 months ago by Codex Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am terrified and excited at the same time. :D
    Posted 15 months ago by Kaessa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was about to head home to harvest and replant my crops, but now I'm going to start making food and drinks for the EOTW. (:
    Posted 15 months ago by Xacau Feera Blin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah Tiny Speck! What an amazing job you have done! THIS is so exciting. WOW!
    Posted 15 months ago by Priscilla Parsley Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just went and spent some quality time with my pigs, chickens and butterflies. Oh little guys, I have loved you so much. Also, my trees. I have really really loved my trees. Two spice, a cherry, and now a bean. Sweet trees.
    Posted 15 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eeeeeep!!!
    Posted 15 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • omgiants!!!!  It's really gonna happen?!?  I must say that I am proud and happy to have been a part of the beginnings of this wonderful, engaging, fascinating and often frustrating game.  Tiny Speck ~ most excellent job on a most excellent game...Thanks for allowing me to be part of it. 
    Posted 15 months ago by Firestone1960 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's gonna be a crazy party with everyone dumping all their stuff. Any major art installations anyone wants to plan?
    Posted 15 months ago by Kira Bajira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WAHOO!!
    Posted 15 months ago by Tradescantia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you Tiny Speck for the opportunity to beta test. What a blast it's been. You guys are the best.
    Posted 15 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ok, sorry if this is totally dense, but i think i remember that staff has said "only one more reset before launch." so if this is the last reset before launch, and there's at least one more test before launch... testers will start with more stuff/skills/currants etc than people who join at launch, yes?
    Posted 15 months ago by greenkozi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So this is it with our possessions?  Say goodbye now, right?

    I better get a picture of my orphanage..........

    One last question.  If this is it, if tonight and tomorrow morning at the last with these items, does that mean that what we earn during the next test, we get to keep? (Wont be much with lowbie skills, rofl)

    Just trying to clarify. Thanks :D
    Posted 15 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That seems to be the way it is. That way there are some Glitches who will be at a somewhat higher level than the brand new players.
    Posted 15 months ago by BarryW Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I will sit with my piggy and shed a little tear or two. One happy, one sad. Then I will start praying that someone does NOT buy my house up before I have enough to go buy it again. Or...maybe I will scout out a new cheaper place to live over the weekend. I think I will also give away my music. Anyone needing anything just ask.
    Posted 15 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Tiny Speck for letting us have some fun and helpl mold the world. Soon we will go to sleep and when we wake up, this will all have been a dream in a giants mind. Wait a minute! When we wake up we will be in a dream in a giants mind.
    Posted 15 months ago by BarryW Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want a badge like staff and guides that says "beta", not only to let people know I was a beta tester but also because beta could also stand for "Badass Excellent Testing Award"
    Posted 15 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh sweet Jesus. PLEASE do not tell me Glitch will be accessible to everyone after launch. I really really wanted it to stay invite only even after launch!!!
    Posted 15 months ago by Piratice Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay!!  Are we there yet??
    Posted 15 months ago by Gadzooks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ♬ ♫ ♪  it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♫ ♬

    and i feel fine :)
    Posted 15 months ago by IxÆoN Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, this is good news...hope we get some good advanced warning for the next test dates, so that I can take the first day or two off...else, I feel a *cough* *cough* *cough* tickle in my throat that I think will keep me from going into work that day.
    Posted 15 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • BTW, I'm selling very rare GRAIN SEED in the auction. You can't even *get* this stuff anymore, people. Your last chance to have some before it all vanishes.
    Posted 15 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Typical that you'd reset just hours after I finally get my last skill ;p
    Posted 15 months ago by Cole Frehlen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Congratulations, Tiny Speck, and to my new friends: I love you all! It's been incredible to see the cooperation and generosity displayed so freely, both while we're just running around and during the street building projects. I'm excited to do it again with you from the Urth up!!
    *sniff*
    Posted 15 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh Blanky, even at the near end of Beta testing, nobody has good grammar. YOUR. :D
    Posted 15 months ago by Princess Pufflepuff Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Princess Pufflepuff, forgive me. I've retracted that contraction. 
    Posted 15 months ago by Blanky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So... what happens If we end the test in our house?

    Where does that put us?
    Posted 15 months ago by VickyAlice139 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wow!  So excited it's happening at last.... anticipation is torture.  Thank you TS x   Also, I think Voluptua Sneezelips is one of my fave glitchen names, along with Old Pea Head.
    Posted 15 months ago by icatchm0nkeys Subscriber! | Permalink
  • After the reset someone should level up entirely by squeezing chickens
    Posted 15 months ago by Anthropocene Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So between reset and launch there will be one test period?  Nice.

    And this test ends...noon PDT?   
    Posted 15 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So scared! So excited! I am... skited!

    *hopes to not be in class during the EOTEOTW*
    Posted 15 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm selling most of my possessions, and my old house, and going on a mining binge.  I will own a house in Alakol or Andra by the end of this test.  I WILL.
    Posted 15 months ago by Jacaranda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So wait ....if there's another test before launch (after reset) does that mean we will start (at launch) with whatever we managed to garner during that final test? Or is that like a devs only test?
    Posted 15 months ago by Sir Poox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks everyone for all the kind words! We definitely could not have done it without you. And we'll do our very best to make it worth all the testing :)

    And for the people asking things like this:
    • Innie: "One last question.  If this is it, if tonight and tomorrow morning at the last with these items, does that mean that what we earn during the next test, we get to keep?"

    • greenkozi "so if this is the last reset before launch, and there's at least one more test before launch... testers will start with more stuff/skills/currants etc than people who join at launch, yes?"

    Yes, whatever happens in the next test is "real life" and will not be reset. You will be ahead of the people who start on the day of launch. But, they will be ahead of people who join the day after. And THEY will be ahead of the people who join the day after that … New people will be joining for years to come, so people who were there earlier will always be a bit "ahead".
    Posted 15 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Piratice: "Oh sweet Jesus. PLEASE do not tell me Glitch will be accessible to everyone after launch. I really really wanted it to stay invite only even after launch!!!"

    It will be invite-only for as long as it needs to be (we want to keep things under control/balanced and not overwhelm the awesome community).
    Posted 15 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ooh

    congratulations!
    :D
    Posted 15 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Dear Devs.

    It's very nice of you to thank us, but all truth be told, we couldn't do it without you. So many kudos and so much credit for developing this awesome game, and in turn facilitating this community that sprung up all over Ur. I'm so excited to see what the future has in store for Glitch!

    Thank you all for your hard work, long hours and sleepless nights.
    Posted 15 months ago by Sir Poox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Looking forward to seeing that crazy pickled cucumber up close and personal...shoon... ;)  

    See y'all on the other side of reset!  And thanks for letting us have a full test period to get our reset "aggression" out on each other before introducing more newbs to the world.
    Posted 15 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "You will be ahead of the people who start on the day of launch"
    let's take good advantage of this so we can welcome the post beta players with fun contests, games and gifts
    Posted 15 months ago by Artilect Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am agreed with Piratice there, glad it's going to be invite only for a while after launch.  I'm very grateful for having been able to play this awesome game - to experience it in its development.  I only wish I'd heard about it earlier!  I'm very glad the reset is actually going to happen - I play another game and was part of its beta, and there was supposed to be a reset, but players complained and they just reset levels somewhat - let everyone keep what they'd earned.  I wasn't sure I was going to be a subscriber, but now I am definitely.  Is there a deadline for the beta rates? Is it at the end of this test period or ? I will probably do it in the morning, so I don't miss out.

    Thanks for the adventure - looking forward to the future of Glitch!!
    Posted 15 months ago by cyre Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, even knowing it was coming doesn't quite prepare you for the shock, it's certainly a way to get your eyes open first thing in the morning. I feel sad, why? Not sure..glad it's going to be over and done with soon but can't help but feel it's the end of something special when, in reality, I guess it's just the beginning. It must be a huge moment for you all over at TS, so huge congratulations! I look forward to the future with Glitch and all that it may hold!

    PS - At what stage will global chat be taken away?
    Posted 15 months ago by Morticia Addams Subscriber! | Permalink
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