Loshem wrote:
The story Cyan began nearly a decade ago and the world that they created resonate with me in ways nothing else ever could.
And fan stories have existed for just as long, heck I've been running Beneath since I got into the Ubiru Beta back in 03, that's a 7 year long fan story right there (which is still running for now, whether it continues to when the arc is finished remains to be seen).
Marten wrote:
Some people are bound to dislike the opinion I'm about to state... but I think the people who've left permanently to pursue fan ages are proverbially small potatoes, and unimportant in the long term. I'm pretty confident that the majority of people who've left or idled have gone on from Uru altogether, to other games and worlds and communities. Sometimes, they check back in to see if things have changed. And eventually, due to the chronic slowness with which the MORE plan has progressed, many just give up.
That upsets me a lot more than a few people who've left because their impatience leads them to try to take matters into their own hands.
Little surprised to see this coming from you Marten. Who are we to say one group of people are more important than others? As one of these people who has left to pursue fan Ages, I'd like to think my view on uru is still as important as the next guy.
There is nothing about impatience here. I've been hovering in the Myst community 12 years, I've followed Uru since the first hints were dropped, I was in Ubiru, Prologue, Prologue Rehearsal, tested Tpots, UU (unfortunately) MOUL beta, MOUL Rehearsal...so I've stuck with it for a while.. but everyone has their limits. The train wreck of MOUL combined with community mentality these days has left a very vapid taste in my mouth and just makes me want to stick to my little corner not dealing with witch hunts, zealots and drama-llamas and build stuff for those who want to explore fan content, the only new content that Uru gets these days..
To quote Whil;
Whilyam wrote:
Finally, most of Loshem's other points are wrong but I have an awesome D'ni location I want to model, I don't have the time, and I simply don't care. Note that this sentiment is rapidly spreading in the community. You can continue abusing people or you can work with them.
I echo his sentiments, I adored D'ni, I adored the lore and would fight to preserve the canon set up, but when the canon is driven into the ground by those who set it up, I'm left feeling what's the point...I had a whole bunch of D'ni related stuff in the pipeline to finish and release but at this point I just don't care to do it, I'd rather move away from it, and I know Whil and I aren't the only ones who feel this way.
12 years of following the lore...not seeing it go out with a bang but with a whimper of the lame dog that got hit by a truck..is a saddening concept.
That's my two posts for this year *wanders back to his little corner*