Glitch Goes CC (and the death of MMOs (individually, not, like, as a general trend))

[Luftmensch]

I remember seeing the trailer for Glitch when it first came out and thinking it was an amusing premise but completely not up my alley. Anyway, apparently it wasn't up enough people's alleys in general because a couple months ago or so the game shut down. The devs at Tiny Speck did something interesting though: They're releasing the assets and player-created content into the creative commons.

Link to dev blog

Link to pages with assets

I dunno if I'm going to ever do anything with this stuff, but it's nifty to see something happening in the wake of the death of this MMO. MMOs as a whole aren't that old, but I've seen a few neat things happen, like shifting from subscription to free-to-play, or Everquest being revived long after it went dark. I don't think I've heard of the assets being released CC, and from the looks of it Glitch has taken a very conservative approach at that, since at a glance I can find hardly any environment assets and what appears to be far too few sprites to make an MMO.

So anyway I dunno what to make of this specifically, but MMOs have existed long enough to die now, so I'm fascinated about what happens to them after death. Has there been an Emily Dickinson of MMOs, that had a whole chest full of amazing poetry locked in its attic but nobody knew until it died?

Edit: thought I was posting this in video games. Whoops.