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On scrapping the standalone
(The original message can be found at AtmoWorlds.)
According to a thread at the Atmosphere User-to-User Forum, mrk plans to scrap the standalone Player and HomeWorld. Rolu says that this move is to turn Atmosphere into a platform for web content
, probably like Macromedia Flash is now. I don’t think I like this. I like the way Atmo is set up today, like a small, VR Internet. I like the sense of community that comes from being able to meet the same people regularly, at the same place, without having to find them using a stats page or a world directory to find them. If they’re desperate to minimize the importance of a HomeWorld, why doesn’t Adobe make HomeWorld like the really old Adobe HomeWorld 2001 AD? And will Adobe scrap the other Atmospherians worlds, like Community or Atmo Town Square?
Update: Well, Rolu says, None of the worlds will be removed; the homeworld will just not be used as single starting point anymore.
I guess that makes sense; I only ever went to HomeWorld because 1.) it was the default homeworld (with the lowercase letters), and 2.) the crowds were there. (I guess that’ll change.)