Glitch was ahead of its time. A few years later, it might have thrived as a phone app, but it worked in a browser, it never quite took off, and in 2012, they shut the game down. Here too, one feature was worth salvaging: the game’s chat tool. Tiny Spec turned that tool into its own program called Slack, and rebranded themselves as Slack Technologies. Slack got pretty big, as you might have heard. This summer, this company too got bought out, this time for $27 billion.
We trust Butterfield will soon leave his current position and try yet again to fulfill his dream of running an MMO. The game will fail, but in the process, he will accidentally perfect cold fusion.
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