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Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Ed Oscuro — Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:11 am

Author: Ed Oscuro

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:11 am

Edit: too much clutter. I'll wrap this up by saying that was a fascinating read, despite my initial assumptions. I'm still not convinced they had this all mapped out by Myst, though!

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Whilyam — Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:09 pm

Author: Whilyam

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:09 pm

Although the reason for shutting Uru down was because there weren't enough subscribers, there were many people who said they would have signed up if the game had actually been released, but that they didn't want to sign up for a Beta (or Preview, whatever).

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

chucker — Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:47 pm

Author: chucker

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:47 pm

Uruboo wrote:

Quote:
...40,000 people signed up for beta...

If you look at the credits after you finish Uru, you'll find written there "4,000+". I think he was trying to say "in Prologue", when Cyan opened the gates to everybody at the end of 2003. Then I believe it was close to 40,000.

Correct. "Beta" in that context does not refer to Ubiru, but to Prologue.

Arguing whether there were enough subscribers is moot since there were many more factors involved than a bunch of mere statistics.

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

joaopedro — Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:40 pm

Author: joaopedro

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:40 pm

John Lynch wrote:

Wow. They had at least 20,000 people almost guaranteed and they canceled

Back at that time, they needed at least 100,000 people in order for Live to be profitable, so...

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Uruboo — Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:08 am

Author: Uruboo

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:08 am

Quote:

...40,000 people signed up for beta...

If you look at the credits after you finish Uru, you'll find written there "4,000+". I think he was trying to say "in Prologue", when Cyan opened the gates to everybody at the end of 2003. Then I believe it was close to 40,000.

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

chucker — Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:31 am

Author: chucker

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:31 am

Calam wrote:

Wow! 40,000 people signed up for beta last time!? I thought it was only 4,000. Considering how many typos and inconsistencies I've found throughout this article, I'm not too sure if that's accurate.

It is.

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

John Lynch — Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:29 am

Author: John Lynch

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:29 am

Wow. They had at least 20,000 people almost guaranteed and they canceled

At least we're getting Uru Live now

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Marten — Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:36 am

Author: Marten

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:36 am

There was an obvious factor of 10 error on the "20" versus "200" years, but 40,000 matches up with what the Prima guide to Myst V listed in Rand's interview then.

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Calam — Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:27 am

Author: Calam

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:27 am

Quote:

We have specific puzzles coming up after launch that require multiple people to solve, sometimes against time.

Oh, no... timed puzzles!? I thought I'd never have to see those again! Someone save us!

Quote:

It helps a lot of people including yourself. But when you don't even get a chance to launch, that's tough, especially when you're so close. 40,000 people signed up for beta and we're ready to go and we don't take a dime from anyone. That just hurts.

Wow! 40,000 people signed up for beta last time!? I thought it was only 4,000. Considering how many typos and inconsistencies I've found throughout this article, I'm not too sure if that's accurate.

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

RAWA — Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:03 am

Author: RAWA

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:03 am

Gadren wrote:

Yali wrote:
Quote:
We poured everything we had into Uru back in the day. We worked on Riven and consulted on other projects but our main focus was Uru.

What does he mean they "worked on Riven"?

He means that while Cyan was producing Riven, they were even then starting work on Uru.

Which isn't accurate. We didn't work on Uru (or any of the variants leading to Uru (D.I.R.T., Mudpie, etc.)) during Riven production. We talked about the seeds of what eventually became Uru back then, but we weren't actually working on it.

My best guess is that he meant "realMYST", which we did work on during the early work on what became Uru.

There are several things like that in the article that leave me scratching my head, but overall, it's a nice article.

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Bongmaster — Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:10 am

Author: Bongmaster

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:10 am

that was a real interesting interview thnx ireen informative as always

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Gadren — Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:31 pm

Author: Gadren

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:31 pm

Yali wrote:

Quote:
We poured everything we had into Uru back in the day. We worked on Riven and consulted on other projects but our main focus was Uru.

What does he mean they "worked on Riven"?

He means that while Cyan was producing Riven, they were even then starting work on Uru.

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Yali — Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:29 pm

Author: Yali

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:29 pm

Quote:

We poured everything we had into Uru back in the day. We worked on Riven and consulted on other projects but our main focus was Uru.

What does he mean they "worked on Riven"?

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

Nissa — Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:55 pm

Author: Nissa

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:55 pm

Very interesting and enlightening!

Re: IGN.com interviews Rand Miller about Myst Online: Uru Live

djlumberjack — Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:26 pm

Author: djlumberjack

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:26 pm

What an amazing read. Thank you for posting that. There were a lot of questions and concerns I had that I didn't really know the answers to, and now that cleared them up. I'm even more excited for the release now!