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They started out trying to make an MMO, ended up making Flickr instead.

Then they tried making another MMO, but ended up making Slack instead.

I really hope they get cracking on another MMO soon.

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Or try designing a really great office collaboration suite and end up accidentally making a killer game.

My wife and I once spent TWO hours stuffing photocopiers into an elevator in Deus Ex.

So, getting close with that one.

Now that's relationship goals.

One of the oddest comments I've yet seen on HN. Was this part of a mission or just for grins?

We went into the police station for a mission but my inner child called out to me. She says it's the day she realised she wanted to marry me.

Do games created in excel count?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/how-an-accountant-cre...

I'd think Excel-based games would be more common. It's dataflow programming after all, which is the only form of massively parallel programming that ever caught on in a big way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9AXBowb0E

You mean eve online?

I believe that was/is a marketing campaign for MS Excel.

or suprise a dev because they're apparently not fully focused on politics anymore?

the first game title is 'neverending' (flick), the second game title is 'glitch' (slack), combine both and you get 'neverending glitch'

I really liked Glitch. The aesthetic was really cool and it always felt cozy. Was sad to see it go, but I can kind of understand it since I don't know they ever had a real business model to it.

What is an MMO? Massive Multiplayer Online?

Short for MMORPG or massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

Not really; MMO is just a massively multiplayer online game, it doesn't have to be an RPG. It could just as well be an FPS, RTS or any other genre... </nitpicking>

ok lol, I just assumed the OP meant something else. Didn't know Salesforce tried to make a game?

Not Salesforce, the people behind Slack and Flickr.

Making an MMO is an incredibly hard but rewarding endeavor. There are so many subsystems that you can design and program that you will never end the game; but you will end much wiser.

until you have an established player base and are using 95% or your time for balancing and the economy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZLwFXJqE)

Maybe we can get a good cross-platform email client next?

Slack client is horrible like most Electron apps. There is no free lunch.

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