By: Alazarin

Alazarin — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:44:45 +0000

I had an early peek at Metaplace and was a bit underwhelmed by the old-school isometric environment. Surely that went out the window long ago? Still, it’s worth noting that someone out there is considering launching a viable competitor to Second Life.

By: Frans Charming

Frans Charming — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:43:36 +0000

Congrats on the screenshot.

By: Connie Sec

Connie Sec — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:04:42 +0000

Hmmmm..Habbo for “Grownups”?

By: Nacon

Nacon — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:43:11 +0000

What you mean by “now”?

The beta has been open to everyone, idiot. They’re yanking you by the balls in PR style.

By: IntLibber Brautigan

IntLibber Brautigan — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:49:07 +0000

Can’t wait to see fungible munnies…

By: 545S.01

545S.01 — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:01:23 +0000

Some relevant bits of chat:

Kitty: if you cross your eyes the name tags make a picture of a manatee

Zimzam: I only see a sea of nametags, should ther be fireworks too?

joecastille: anybody else think metaplace mary is kinda hot?

Raph cheers for thr fireworks

Kitty: lol 80 second chat lg here
Raph: 80 second?
Raph: Chat for me is going by normally
Raph: Also, if you wander away from the plaza, performance gets better

Pixeleen: its a Metaplace mosh pit

Raph yells, “So, if I could have your attention for a second!”
Raph yells, “Thanks for coming!”
Raph yells, “We wanted to have a party to celebrate all the hard work you have all done testing Metaplace”
Raph yells, “because we could not have gotten this far without your help!”
Raph yells, “I will keep this brief…”
Raph yells, “We are opening the beta TOMORROW MORNING”
triptych: YAYAAYAYAYAYAY
Darkdust yells, “YAY”
Arrakiv: Spiffy.
Cuppycake: woooooooot
KStarfire: wooo hoo!!
Miki: yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy
joecastille: nice
hyphz: OMG
rorowe: woohoo!!!
Rosedew: Woot!
AthSkytower: Excellent!
KStarfire: wootuni!
Fredriksson: wohooo
Cuppycake cheers
Brit-chan: congrats
gromituk2k: woo!
BenLewis: yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhh
Schuyler: cheer
KStarfire: way to go Metaplace dev and staff!!
rboehme cheers
Amethyst squeals
mzo: omg open beta is sccary!!!!
Aveliana cheers
KStarfire claps
Raph yells, “The NDA will lift at the same time, so you can blog, tweet, chat, post, report, gossip, and otherwise comment on Metaplace freely ”
Raph yells, “Now — just to set some expectations”
Raph yells, “We at Metaplace are NOT going to any real marketing or press around opening the beta”
Raph yells, “that’s because we’re aiming for a soft launch”
Raph yells, “I asked Cory at BoingBoing not to blog it actually ”
Raph yells, “Also — it will be open BETA for sure… we know we have a long long way to go yet, and lots more to do”
Raph yells, “But thank you for sticking with us on this first step on the journey!”
Raph yells, “So thank you again, and have fun! Go explore! Wheelwright tournament! Zoo Escape tournament! High Seas battle! Go for it! ”

Raph: Heck a round of applause for the ALPHA TESTERS — if you were in alpha, cheer!

KStarfire: kosumo? form SL?
komuso: that’s ko—mooooo—so
komuso: getting ready to bring the boogie to the metaplace bitstream;-)

Pixeleen: hey Tizzers!
Tizzers: Hiya!

chooseareality: so Raph I could bring this up now to my employers if they ask me to make a game with flash… as a faster alternative

Tizzers: This is intense.

Raph: we do plan on doing SNS intgration and remote embedding over time

Pixeleen: Raph – what time do you go to open beta tomorrow?
Raph: Pix, we’re not going to say… like I said, soft launch… we don’t want a queue clicking refresh at a specific second over and over
Pixeleen: ok – so I’ll just run a generic mention
Raph: We’d prefer it if you ran it after it opens, if you could

Tizzers: Oh baby I like it, grief me more.
Tizzers: There needs to be a FIC badget Raph.
Tizzers: Badge*