A little over a year after
being reborn on GameTap,
Myst Online: Uru Live will be unplugged.
GameTap's VP of Content and Creative Director Ricardo Sanchez writes on the GameTap forums that the decision was made for "business reasons" rather than any design or vision issues with developer Cyan Worlds. The game will remain live for another 60 days and then it's over, but MystOnline.com will stay active.
Sanchez went on to say that GameTap looked at a "wide variety of possibilities for maintaining the game," and in a later
forum post writes the company "isn't a bunch of evil corporate types who do nothing but count pennies and wear Brooks Brothers suits." Taking a sip from the "glass is half-full" perspective: At least GameTap gave
Myst Online a chance for a year.
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Maybe he doesn't get the Star Wars reference?
I've worked on a podcast with the Uru community for the last two years, and I can tell you, there were thousands of people who kept this community alive, and it became the first online game to rise again from such a crushing defeat as Ubi's pullout.
Pull the picture, or lose a reader.
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With that said, I think Joystiq will do just fine with one less reader. GTFO.
Obviously, you can't appreciate that.
I am seriously confused. Are you seeing a picture of babies being ripped from their mother's wombs and impaled by Uru community members or something?
Because that's not what the picture is. Good riddance though, the posts of a paranoid schizophrenic are disturbing...
Sure, Uru has got a lively community, and sure, it ain't gonna last as long as WoW... but they WILL turn off those WoW servers someday, and I think that when they do, you should count yourself lucky that you only invested two years of work into Uru, and not the 10+ many will have put into WoW.
That I wasted two years of my life and that I should stop wasting the world's resources and kill myself.
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I got a one line email response saying "Download the game again." when my message clearly said I had already tried that.
The lost of games is upsetting. I have sold games since I know they're available on gametap, and now they are discontinuing games whenever they feel like it, it seems. The chances that I'll re-up when the time comes this year seems less and less. Maybe I'll take part of that money and buy some stuff on Steam.
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Apparently, he's not familiar with the concepts of hyperbole and understatement.
I love the Myst series of games, but it seems that buyers market simply have no room for Cyan Worlds, and have abandoned the company.
Well, maybe that isn't true, a year ago Uru Live was the most-played game on Gametap, I can only assume that the number of users has plummeted since then.
While this isn't as sad a day as the time shortly after the release of Myst V (when Ubisoft pulled all support from Cyan Worlds, forcing them to lay off almost all of their staff.) it is still exceedingly depressing.
My condolences to any members of the community who see this, and my encouragement to any Cyan World's staff members who might happen to see this, hang in there, with luck the night will pass.
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