Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Rezzable to Move to OpenSim, Close Most Sims in Second Life

Rezzable will be moving-on from SL in July. We have decided to close down all our sims on the Second Life grid except for Greenies Home. We will drop Crimson Shadow, Tunnel of Light and Carnival of Doom mid-July. Greenies Lawn is already gone. The Hobo Island is being transferred over to Thinkerer Melville. Black Swan will be deleted from the SL Grid after the Swan Song fashion event closes in mid-August. We will be focusing our efforts on Heritage Key, where we invite you to GoVirtual (VX) with King Tut. We will re-open the Rezzable Grid for people to help us test/improve OpenSim as well as showcase things that work there. We will continue to operate http://rezzable.com and cover metaverse topics and our virtual locations directory.

Heritage Key is a very exciting new opportunity and we really want/need to focus on this. We have a job position open for a designer/builder. We have tried to find ways to make our investment in time and resources profitable on the SL grid, including participating in the SL Gateway program, but at this point we cannot justify further effort. More than 40 sims and 2 years since first opening the Cannery, we are looking beyond the SL grid and see a bright future.

We would like to thank the SL community for welcoming us when we started and putting up with us while we were active. We have had the privilege to work with some of the best builders, scripters, designers and creators. Our sim staff members have been great and they really added the magical ingredient to why so many people have enjoyed visiting our areas. We have hosted tons of events, parties, art shows and general randomness. More than 2.5 million avatar visits have hit our areas. No idea how many freebies we gave out, but some are still/will be setting sims ablaze
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While we have not made the kind of money we would have liked to have generated from our work in SL, we have gained a lot. We have learned a lot. We are glad to have encountered so many truly unique people. We hope to make all our supporters, friends and metaverse enthusiasts proud with Heritage Key, which is a combination of quality content, unique virtual online experience and web community.


We are organizing a set of events and of course special sales promotions. More info about the Rezzable grid will be posted soon.


Statement by Rezzable CEO Jon Himoff at rezzable.com

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