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...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Well, the soundtrack will certainly be the only thing you can play from
the package once it goes offline!<br>
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*zing*<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Devin Monnens wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Andrew
Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org" target="_blank">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span>
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Hot on the heels...Tabula Rasa as we all know didn't do to well.<br>
<br>
Feb 28th is the death knell for it -
<a href="http://www.rgtr.com/news/latest_news/message_from_the_tabula_rasa_t.html" target="_blank">http://www.rgtr.com/news/latest_news/message_from_the_tabula_rasa_t.html</a><br>
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Anyone know any others closing down?<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Andrew Armstrong wrote:
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<div> Yeah, certainly if I notice anything online,
I'll post about it
here.Keep an eye out everyone!<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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 :)<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Henry Lowood wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> 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.<br>
<br>
Henry<br>
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Andrew Armstrong wrote:
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That was fast! 6 months total. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Andrew <br>
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