Virtual Caches make a Return
Who says you can’t change how the system works?
Groundspeak uses the same feedback system we have in play here at the MGA, Get Satisfaction, (you can see it in use on the main portion of the website, there’s a little brown “feedback” tag on the left).
What GetSatisfaction lets you do is provide feedback, negative or positive, and suggest new features for the people that run a site. One of the features (the 2nd most popular one I might add) for groundspeak to add-back to geocaching.com was the “Virtual Cache”.
From the GetSatisfaction Feedback post.
Bring Back Virtuals
Bring ‘em back. Virtuals and Waymarks simply aren’t the same, I don’t care how much you try to force the square peg into the round hole. Put controls and criteria in place and let us police them as with regular caches. If a plethroa of lame micros are OK, what’s so wrong about a few lame virts squeaking through? If you don’t like ‘em, don’t do ‘em.
Last night Jeremy Irish posted this response:
We continue to work on the project, but unfortunately will be unable to launch something until late June or early July. I’ll update this if anything changes. We’ll be incorporating the concept into our August 20 Block Party in Seattle, so early August is the absolute latest that we’ll have something live. (13675)
An earthcache, which is a style of virtual cache, have proven to be rather popular the past few years, and their popularity, along with the user demand, may have prompted this move.
