Globaled: Gameglobe to shutdown at the end of November

Michael Dunaway
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It can be a sad time announcing a game's untimely departure, especially if that game attempted to do something at least moderately different from the crowds of clones crowding the small span of space that is our attention. Gameglobe's demise is particularly frustrating, because the game seemed to have gone to great lengths producing something akin to LittleBigPlanet on PC.

Unfortunately, an interesting premise is not immune to poor execution and Gameglobe suffered greatly because of this. The MMO originally enticed fans with the ability to create unique game experiences within Gamegobe itself, but locked new items away, forcing players to grind excessively in order to continue building. With the move from publisher Bigpoint to Square Enix, Gameglobe tried a new route, opening up all items to players in exchange for a monthly subscription fee.

As you can imagine, the addition of a monthly fee (even an optional one) was ill received, and Sqaure Enix reversed its decision, going so far as to open up all build items permanent to everyone. Still, efforts made on behalf of Gameglobe's continued existence were in vain. An official announcement on the Gameglobe forums from the developers thanks the community for their enthusiastic support, but laments that they "just not been able to make it work".

Gameglobe will officially stop service a week from today, on November 29th. Perhaps its failure is an indication that some B2P game designs (such as LittleBigPlanet) simply do not work as well when straddled with a typical F2P monitezation scheme. Why do you think Gameglobe Failed?

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (19)

bloch 2 years ago
This game was “THE GAME FOR ME!” When I got my first pc, I mean this game got me into game development. There are so many fun games out there, but his game can’t be beaten in my world, it was fun, inspiring, filled with charm and actually had a lot of potential. To this day I still miss it and I am still looking for games like this but no game can beat this. So I might just make my own ;)

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Sad... 7 years ago
PLS JUST BRING THIS GAME BACK....

InDaFaceGr 10 years ago
There's a game that is WAY more awful. It's called ROBLOX.

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Francisco 10 years ago
There's a game like this that is WAY more succesful. It's called ROBLOX.

rakanm 10 years ago
whyy ?

Feindfeuer 10 years ago
- lack of advertisment, i only stumbled upon it by accident
- lot of crap and xp-grind maps flooded the mission pool so it was hard to find anything good besides developer picks of the week.
- locking most of the stuff behind a grind/pay wall lead to the flood of xp grind maps in the first place
- lack of multiplayer, at least during the time I played. Sure, you could share your adventure and action maps, but you could not share the experience of playing through them together with friends.

Kind of sad, cause at it's core it was a rather powerful but easy to use sandbox for creating little action adventure scenarios.

Urcheon 11 years ago
As with most user generated content, most of the levels were not very fun to play except for a few amazing ones. I thought it had a lot of potential and value because it was one of the easiest entry points for young, prospective game developers or creative types. It was educational and inspired creativity.

I think it failed because it was online only. Who wants to spend tons of hours crafting levels when they could disappear any day? Maybe I'm just old fashioned and too reverent but when I create stuff I want it to last. I have tons of creative type games and game makers that only had a one time fee to purchase. They allow me to save my works offline and share online at no additional costs, some even have multiplayer. I can't understand why they chose such a crappy model. The only thing I can imagine that they thought they could make the most money off it that way. The only types of games that should be online only are game that really need to be online only to function, like MMOs for example.

Gameglobe did have multi-player towards the end but I did not have any luck syncing up with anyone but I only tried it briefly once.

capoe 11 years ago
it failed cause the game sucked..that's all it takes,that and no one playing it because it sucks,and or never heard of it.

Kawaiido 11 years ago
This games demise was owed to no co-op. Why make a game like this ONLINE when you can't even play it with others?

unmarked 11 years ago
-no multiplayer

InDaFaceGr 11 years ago
The best browser game got shut down, in our memories (us the community of gameglobe) it will be forever. And hahahhaha you are wrong and a person like you would never revive gameglobe...




Farewell to any Mmobombers-gameglobers TheSecondJoker

Hahahhaha 11 years ago
This game crushed my hopes the first second I discovered that you can't design a game like in LBP, you just design some levels for a s**ty platformer game
I'm glad it's shutting down

Merkadis 11 years ago
Since i never, even remotely, heard of this game,.. it failed because of: Lack of advertisement.
Also, the ability to create and share levels is not exactly new and i don't think it is something that will be popular with todays generation.
What we need rather badly is innovation yes but not by player mind (we can suggest but we should never build), it is the devs/sponsors of all those many companies who need to wake the f@ck up already and start to produce quality instead of quantity.

Allwynd 11 years ago
this game wasnt that bad

Mystika 11 years ago
When it comes to building games such as this (even though there's an adventure aspect), all the build aspects of it should be unlocked straight from the start. Builders want complete freedom in designing their courses, and if you gimp them with restrictions...they're gonna quickly turn their backs on the game.

bruthsaw 11 years ago
I personally think it failed because of the fact that since things were locked in the sense that "Oh, I bet this seems cool to build into a level.. But you first have to unlock it." While it did have a cool idea, and even changed the game to what I think was a good area first impressions mean a lot.


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