Virtual world toolbox Metaplace closing its doors
by Mike Schramm 
on Dec 31st 2009 3:00AM
Another virtual world reaches the end of its existence, as
Raph Koster announced early last week that
Metaplace, the online world that was
supposed to be the end-all, do-all of such things, is
going to close for good on January 1, 2010. It's a common story with MMO startups these days: developer has "revolutionary" idea for user-generated content, gets a bunch of money and support to
put it into place, users don't actually vibe with the idea they way they were expected to, and the dev is left
having to explain why it didn't work out.
Oh, and the people who were actually enjoying the world get stuck without a place to go. Koster says the company has created
this Metaplace veterans forum for anyone who enjoyed the service and wants to stay in touch with their contacts there. We'd recommend you head over there to say hi (and
talk about what's next), but given that the world is shutting down, odds are you probably weren't playing with it anyway.
[Via
Massively]
