Glitch, a unique and ambitious free-to-play web-based MMO that has been around for a couple of years, will be no more as of next month. The developers at Tiny Speck have said on their website that although they have considered alternative courses of action, the game simply didn't garner a big enough audience for them to keep it going:
Unfortunately, Glitch has not attracted an audience large enough to sustain itself and based on a long period of experimentation and our best estimates, it seems unlikely that it ever would. And, given the prevailing technological trends — the movement towards mobile and especially the continued decline of the Flash platform on which Glitch was built — it was unlikely to do so before its time was up. Glitch was very ambitious and pushed the limits of what could be done in a browser-based game … and then those limits pushed back.
Glitch is a colourful, cartoonish MMO set inside the imagination of eleven giants. It's quite unlike the likes of World of Warcraft, with more of an emphasis on socialising than epic adventuring. If you want to try it out before it disappears forever, you'll have to get somebody already playing to invite you into the game, as new account creation has been disabled. And if you're already a Glitch player, don't worry; any in-game purchases you made since November 1st 2011 can be refunded, and those made more recently will happen automatically.
