[game_preservation] Google Shutting down Lively

[Devin Monnens]

Well, I did end up purchasing Guild Wars when it first came out... But I
still haven't played the damn thing. This seems to me like a very bad
decision...

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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>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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