Here's what bums me out:

"Glitch is an experiment in culture building. We provide lots of raw materials and environment, but without you there is no point! Play Glitch and you'll have a chance to shape the world, to form it into wherever your imagination takes you."

Translation: Game as Web 2.0. You make the content, we provide a toolset and some avatars. At its worst, this sounds like Wikipedia meets Foursquare, in terms of people claiming territories and generating content along the way. As an MMO, how does this inspire long-term play? Where is the grandeur and struggle and need for perpendicular collaboration--as in, separate tasks that play out as if they could ONLY work if done by multiple people at once? Don't see that so far.

Paul, you bit because the trailer has a Paul-friendly aesthetic. If you're expecting an Internet audience to meet the challenge of creating compelling content that delivers the carefully controlled, exploratory satisfaction of Legend of Zelda, you're out of your mind.

There will be a "game" that succeeds by being similar to Glitch's concept, and it won't seem much like a typical game and all the old critics will hem and haw at first and call it shit. I'm sure of it.

But it won't run in Flash on web browsers. It'll be a mobile game that works across iPhone and Android, built with discrete, micro-play chunks that have wide-ranging ramifications for a huge playerbase, and it'll sit right next to Twitter and Facebook on everyone's phone screens in 2.5 years. Hopefully I'll make it before someone else does.