Regarding Szark's points on the Myst V ages, which I now understand are part of DIRT (and are _separate_ from the Intangibles' work to finish incomplete ages)...

I do not want to make any wrong assumptions about what Chloe has in mind for them. Until I see or hear how Chloe is adapting them for Uru, it seems too early for me to preemptively express a lot of concern. I'm sure Chloe already knows it would feel weird to integrate the tablet into Uru, and that it would also feel weird to visit these ages as nothing but gardens to see with nothing to do. So I must withhold judgment on what the story and puzzles will be like in that integrated content until it is done.

And of course, one of the great things we should not forget is that Chloe is free to build her vision, and if Chloe offers it to Cyan, Cyan is free to choose whether or not they want to integrate that vision into MOULa. Each shard of Uru is like an alternate universe, and each of us has the power to choose which Uru we want to live. I'm sure DIRT will have its own unique feel and personality. And even if I decide not to participate in it, I still generally feel our community is richer, not poorer, for having choices and opportunities.

I think Marten and Emor are just suggesting that people manage their expectations; to keep an open mind and not get their heart set on things being done in a particular way, so that they won't be disappointed if things go in a different direction than they'd hoped.

I don't want to go to far into spoiler territory concerning what will be seen in the ages I've been adapting from the Myst V stuff. But I will say that any story and content that was tied directly to the story within Myst V (The Slates, Keeps, Tablets etc) were all removed. Their purpose was served with the Myst V story so they won't be, and shouldn't be continuity and storywise, appearing within the ages when we visit them in Uru. Rather the ages, have been adapted for a new story more in keeping with what Cyan seems to have originally outlined for them, where the info you gleamed when completing these ages was rolled out in doses rather than all at once like in Myst V. According to RAWA, the information you learned about the Bahro and their abilities in Myst V, would have come out within Uru slowly over a longer period of time, and this had to be rushed for Myst V, so it seemed to me that some of the "magic" had died in that regard. So, without giving anything away, I want to kind of get back to that "slow burn" information rollout that would have happened in Uru, and so the ages are being adapted for that kind of story.

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"By the end of the year" was the phrase, IIRC, and I think the words "hope to" were in there too. No concrete date was given. But yes, the content Eric Anderson was talking about is going into MO:ULa.

Here's a funny one: I spoke with Michael Dogherra after the convention, and asked him about the Myst V Ages Eric was showing during the presentation. He said something like, "It caught the rest of us by surprise. We were saying to each other, 'Wait, those aren't fan Ages!'"