I'm with Zardoz on the community of interest. I don't love Cyan. I'm into Uru, Myst, Myst III Exile (not created by Cyan, Cyan licensed the rights), Myst IV Revelation (not created by Cyan, Cyan licensed the rights) and Myst V. I'm not much into Riven, though I'm glad I played it. I'm not into the books. So - that me, the game, why I'm here. I'm part of the community of interest - it's a good community. Don't get me wrong - I've got great respect for Cyan, and I also think the Ubisoft team that created Myst IV Revelation is pretty darn swell! All of the Cyan folks I've dealt with have been great, as well as the Ubisoft folks.
CrisGer, your passion is impressive, but some fans aren't like you. I like how you express your thoughts and feelings - you write well, and your feeling are genuine. What I object to is the attempt to say that me, or anyone like me, is disloyal. I'm in the community of interest, though I'm happy to converse and understand the people who naturally reside, as far as I can tell, in the community of fealty.
On non Cyan run shards - not disloyal, in my humble opinion. Some people want to see what happens if you have a multiple shards to choose from. In my ideal world, there would be a Cyan run shard and other shards too - all things for all Uru fans. Some people want to take Uru as a jumping off point - what else can you do? This is not uncommon - they always say in MMO land that people play the game in ways that the developers did not imagine. Some people want to take Uru and create something - what an interesting thing to happen, unexpected if you ask me. I want to see what happens. I'd like a Cyan run shard too, to accomodate the desires of all the fans.
On Cyan running a shard, approving content, and anything else that goes along with Cyan doing something with Uru - my comfort level would be increased if I felt they had a contingency plan, a graceful transition for when they could not work on Uru anymore. The past is not a complete predictor of the future, but whenever you predict the future, you use the past as evidence, as data in your predictions. Cyan was working on open source Uru, and then they stopped because they got work that paid them. I'm happy Cyan isn't going out of business, and I wish the people at Cyan well, both personally, and so they make more games. But - considering that I'm interested in Uru, I'd like some idea that if I get in MMO Uru again, it's going to be around. The evidence we has so far is not promising. Cyan was working on open source Uru, they got paying work, so open source Uru stops, with no idea, no date, nothing on when it's starting up again. Going on past evidence, my comfort level with a Cyan run shard, running Cyan approved content - not high. Remember, I'm in the community of interest, not fealty, and I'm a big fan of evidence, of data driven analysis and decisions. I realize that the future is not the past - but ignoring the past to predict the future - not wise.
I don't see Uru making money, so spreading the risk around to several fan servers - that just seems better to me. When we had UU, with fan run shards, that worked. To me, that's evidence that multiple servers, multiple Uru shards, can work again.
This has turned into such an interesting discussion!
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