Google’s Lively Isn’t.

Posted by Nelson Williams | November 21, 2008

Out around July, the search engine giant and our future overlord Google launched a virtual world project called Lively. Another one of Google’s experiments, Lively was meant as a sort of MMO playground that would expand along a common standard to create a massive virtual space across the countries of the world. However, the game, if you could call it that, was hamstrung by a family-friendly approach that limited its appeal against the (very much more) relaxed Second Life MMO. Also, user reports had the client as a rather bloated, slow, and inconsistent beast that failed to perform on even the beefiest computers.

Yesterday, Google announced they were shutting down Lively in December and clearing out the dev team to hurl them back into the Search Mines of Googlestania. No particular reason for axing the service was given, except that it didn’t pay off suitably to survive. …

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