[game_preservation] Google Shutting down Lively

[Andrew Armstrong]

Well, the soundtrack will certainly be the only thing you can play from 
the package once it goes offline!

*zing*

I've no idea how good/bad this MMO was because, I've found, MMO's pretty 
much are grindtastic and no one I know plays them much, so no community 
for me ;) I do wonder if one will come along I'll actually want to play, 
but some do drop like flies.

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> That's too bad. Richard Garriot was so hopeful about it. They had the 

> LE version selling for pennies. Would have been worth it for the 

> soundtrack maybe.

>

> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     Hot on the heels...Tabula Rasa as we all know didn't do to well.

>

>     Feb 28th is the death knell for it -

>     http://www.rgtr.com/news/latest_news/message_from_the_tabula_rasa_t.html

>

>     Anyone know any others closing down?

>

>     Andrew

>

>     Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>     Yeah, certainly if I notice anything online, I'll post about it

>>     here.Keep an eye out everyone!

>>

>>     Defiantly, if it was longer running there'd be a better community

>>     and it'd be easier to go out and email those sites for help

>>     regarding this.

>>

>>     I very much doubt Google themselves would do much to help if

>>     contacted - generally their "dead" things really, really stay

>>     dead (see their Google Sync for Firefox, entirely binned, sigh),

>>     and they usually don't release much for historians. Might be

>>     worth a shot though, on the off hand :)

>>

>>     Andrew

>>

>>     Henry Lowood wrote:

>>>     Actually 4.5 months.  Did you see in the announcement that they

>>>     are encouraging users to take screenshots and videos of their

>>>     sites?  I would be happy to take anything like that in the

>>>     Archiving Virtual Worlds collection, which is available for

>>>     exactly this sort of thing.  If you hear about such

>>>     documentation, feel free to point them to the collection or even

>>>     to me if they need help uploading.

>>>

>>>     Henry

>>>

>>>     Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>>>     http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/20/144248

>>>>

>>>>     That was fast! 6 months total.

>>>>

>>>>     I hope the Virtual Worlds project can scrounge some things from

>>>>     it, the actual world/platform/community might not be the best,

>>>>     but since it's coming from Google, there must be some bits and

>>>>     pieces there.

>>>>

>>>>     Andrew

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