Too be honest, and not to be ignorant, I honestly think should be f2p BUT!!!! Limit the HELL out of everything for f2p players, like you can’t own items *unless you pay for them*. Not even an IP or an email address, as impersonal as those can be. Delete the unbelievers outright if you like, but don’t give out someone else’s personal information on the internet. I haven’t exactly been kicking myself for that, but… well, suffice it to say that I’ll be really happy when I finally manage to log on to There2. When it closed, I missed my chance to log on for one last time. There was a big part of my life for a while. Just because you think they’re living examples of the “greater internet fuckwad theory” ( if you’re not initiated) doesn’t mean you’re entitled to publish identifying information about them when they say mean things about you. They suck, and you should by no accounts listen to them, but you also shouldn’t sink to their level. Trolls and assholes are a fact of life on the internet. It’s not nice, it’s not professional, and it’s *really* not the way you should behave when you’re representing a business. Outing somebody like that just looks like a childish cry for a witch hunt. You really should cut this out and delete these comments where you’ve made them. No need to approve this, just a comment to you: I promise there will be a follow-up post by the end of the week. We’ll keep you filled in as we know more. Thanks to your enthusiastic response, we’re sure it’s possible, and willing to do our best to make it happen. We’re all looking forward to the first month we can declare There “Broke Even”, or, even, gasp, “Made a profit”. We’re all very excited (well, cautiously very excited) about this, and determined to make it work. We might go totally hog wild and publish the # of members and # of people logged in even.įinally, I’d like to thank everyone for their participation, and patience with this survey. As we zero in on an opening date, we’ll let people know.Īs promised, I’ll share the data about what it costs to run There, and, after we open, how much we pull in, every month. And, of course, the Developer program will be re-activated along the way.Īs I said, we’ve done some work to get ready for this, but clearly there’s lots more to do. We don’t know the opening date yet, but we do know we’ll start with ThereIM, then the public areas, then, finally, hoods, lots, FunZones, etc. My impression is that most folks here would be more than happy to help and we’ll welcome it. I’ll say right now that we will all have to work together to help supplant Customer Support and Community, especially at the outset. In the future this might change, but that decision is final for now. As I’ve said, at this juncture we can’t afford to provide the level of support and monitoring we think is right to protect folks under 18, so we’re not going to put minors, or ourselves, in that position. I know that many of you will be disappointed by the 18 or older aspect of our decision. You will be able to use your old Avatars, and will have all of the inventory and Therebucks you had when we closed. We will work to re-open There as a Paid Service (fees TBD, but at least $10/month) for folks 18 or older. After cleaning the data, reviewing the cleansed data, and talking about it some more, we finally said “Ok, do we want to do this?”.
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