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Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

Thend — Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:30 pm

Author: Thend

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:30 pm

I had linked to the Hood balcony innocently enough for yet another round of jumping. There was some girl there I had never seen before, sitting. Made the usual salutations, after which, she quietly shared the prevailing rumor, that Prologue was closing. I couldn't comprehend that. It didn't register, and was totally not what I was expecting to ever hear. I just stood there, questioning her, listening to her, about what she'd heard (I wasn't a forum-goer in those days, so I was particularly clueless). Then, when all that could be said was, I linked out, forgetting about what I had come there for, sharing in her sadness and in a state of numb shock.

For me, Uru was some last, glowing ember in the otherwise cold online environment which I had immigrated to, so it was like the world was ending. The surprisingly short number of days that followed until everything disappeared were, well, depressing, to say the least.

Until Uru, though grand in the face of what had previously occured, still lacked hope, at least for me, as I never expected Uru to go Live ever again, like we were only treading water in a desperate attempt to merely survive, seemingly indefinitely.

The announcement of Uru Live came as much of a shock to me as Prologue's closing, again blind-sided. So many forces outside of our control, and yet this one actually favored us, was actually optimistic. The remembrance of what has been gone through to get to this point only makes it that much sweeter.

All I can say now is - Long Live Uru Live!

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

Yali — Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:07 pm

Author: Yali

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:07 pm

You're gonna all flame me for this, but I was actually slightly content at the news. I didn't understand Uru at the time. It all seemed to alien to me. It just didn't feel like Myst. So in reaction to the news, I felt like this would let Cyan make more single player games, which I hoped would be more akin to Riven, but what I failed to understand was that Uru is the second Riven. Heck, it's even greater than Riven!

I had to acquire a taste for Uru over the years, and now I'm a HUGE Uru fanatic!

Now on the other hand, when I heard Cyan had shut it's doors, my immediate thought was "My life just died".

The eeriest thing was playing POTS

jayctravis — Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:57 am

Author: jayctravis

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:57 am

and how weird it felt with those pictures on the view screen, and the list of explorers logged in. I felt bad each time I warped back because I knocked one off.

I wondered if anyone with no knowledge of prologue experienced that.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

UniqueHorn — Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:20 pm

Author: UniqueHorn

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:20 pm

The First Thing I Thought When Prologue Was Closed?
In chaos there is just no First.
Found myself in chaos because ties to friends were broken. Not knowing what your friend went through was even worse. Felt like month before we could hug some of them again on fora.

I still can't unravel the chaos I felt the very moment all avatars froze.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

ToriaURU — Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:58 pm

Author: ToriaURU

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:58 pm

Okay, cool! That's awesome that you've come back into the fold. Welcome BACK! /dance. Yes, MadTom was a character! Jamie is still in touch with me, and I've got Pfosou's address, and got him on MSN as well. Please contact me via PM if you would like to pass on your details to them. Footprint/Uniquehorn as well, I'm still in touch with. He's the Dutch fellow.

EDIT: Mad Mushroom Hood thread on the Ubisoft URU forums. Buried now, but can become alive again.

Another memory I had of those first few days was that somehow it would work. Somehow, someday, we'd be together again. That's what I recall. Many were all doom and gloom, and sad, but I remember having a glimmer of hope, and of optimism in there. I never said to myself, "I'm turning my back and never coming back to this". It was too special.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

Chuba — Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:52 pm

Author: Chuba

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:52 pm

Good old Tom.. we used to hang out and explore a lot, together with Jamie and Pfisou. I remember they continued a thread in the cyan forum or at uruobsession.. but that's prolly gone by now.

Ah.. good memories

My first thought was that I will never get the marker in the egg room. So I spent a whole night falling into oblivion and eventually made it

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

ToriaURU — Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:47 pm

Author: ToriaURU

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:47 pm

For me, the saddest moment/day was when I got this picture on my screen..

It was taken by YatGirl, in Amber Horizons hood. I'm there, and Matrix, and a lot of other nice people whom I've lost touch with.

Right afterwards, when I'd clicked on the okay button, I just sat and cried. Hands in face. Then I turned off my computer and went to bed, since it was 2 am for me.

Then I found out that Matrix hadn't clicked the OK button but instead esc and he'd stayed alive!

Matrix's gallery. The first seven pix on that page are all of us, frozen in place, like statues. He had to ALT-F4 out though when the egg room door wouldn't open obviously. But yes, I heard of many in the city who did that same thing. Bizarre!

Then as we got together, groups of us on MSN and chatted, we had tears, and yet hope too. I recall To D'ni very sad without my buddies. The hood for me, was so empty and sad. I just cried when I stood and watched the imager. But didn't give up. I was hanging around Cyan Chat I think when I heard about the new Until URU! Got my key and an extra one that day! Gave my extra one to a student in Australia, just so he could enjoy it.

Then, my interest waxed and waned as the politics got in the way. But I've been here all along, and helping to gather people back by using PM's , instant messaging, asking them to gather their circles of friends back into the fold.

That's the only way we are going to get back those who've gone missing. Somebody out there has one of those missing people in their address book, or in their IM list, and just hasn't contacted them yet. It's only with work that we'll gather them back.

Anybody know of a fellow in LadyVye's hood by the name of Kesse? His email is no good Lovely fellow from Northern California, who was also friendly with the Mad Mushroom Bunch. Anybody hear of MadTom, the lovely fellow from Zurich who was mayor of Mad Mushroom? He signed my guest book but no email addy

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

LaReh — Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:05 pm

Author: LaReh

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:05 pm

I believed Cyan when they said that Uru Live was "being put to bed".
Sleep does not mean death. My personal belief was that since UbiSoft was not interested in going the distance for Uru Live, that Cyan simply had to wait out the contractual obligations (time-wise) and then find another partner.
Cyan went out of their way to accomodate the fans during that period, Until Uru and allowing the various modifications, ala User KI, were proof positive to me that time and patience were all that was needed.
Thankfully, I was right.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

bozistheboss — Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:34 am

Author: bozistheboss

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:34 am

I'm going to be brutally honest. I got my e-mail from Zandi, logged in immediately, and faced bug after bug. I explored the online-only areas for a bit (as they were inaccessible at the time, since the expansions weren't out) but the game kept crashing on me so I never logged back in. When I heard it had been shut down, I was a little annoyed, cuz I'd been hoping all the little bugs would be fixed.

After reading about all the great friends you all made, I greatly regret that I let a few errors prevent me from playing and getting to know everyone.

I hope I can make amends for that when Uru Live relaunches.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

EtoilePB — Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:12 am

Author: EtoilePB

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:12 am

The very, very first thing I thought?

"Crap, I only have 29 markers!"

And then, in sort of a ruthless way, I thought about how hard it wsa to get into Ae'gura and stay there for any length of time (part of the reason I only had 29 markers) and I kind of understood why it was folding.

But I still stayed sad.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

Calam — Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:08 pm

Author: Calam

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:08 pm

When Cyan hit that slick patch of ice in their employment a while ago, my biggest fear wasn't that the company would fold, but that it would get merged with some other adventure game company. I don't know if Rand would have done something like that, but I do know he would have done everything possible to keep Cyan alive.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

Texana — Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:20 am

Author: Texana

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:20 am

Shock, Denial, Anger, and then incredible sadness. I did not give up hope, not even when Cyan announced their layoffs, but I went through all the pain again and was left stunned for a while.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

Shadowcats — Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:05 am

Author: Shadowcats

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:05 am

Very sad angry Heek a whole range of emotions
BUT never gave up hope.
The Last Words Of Uru Live Prologue 2004 if anyone is interested
I see a lot of names there that still have not returned lets hope they do.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

JWPlatt — Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:03 am

Author: JWPlatt

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:03 am

tkwiggins wrote:

There's a thread over at the DRC site that has an interesting take on those days and how they connect with these days. Well worth a read.

It was this thread here which inspired me to post it. I almost posted it here, but it just seemed better off on its own. Thanks for the nice reference.

Re: The First Thing You Thought When Prologue Was Closed

tkwiggins — Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:37 am

Author: tkwiggins

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:37 am

Having been in prologue since late '03, it was the 5 Stages of Grief here. Pretty much what Walt said -- except for me there was a lot more of 1, 2 & 3 and less of 4 & 5.

The hope & faith didn't really kick in until summer '04, when the buzz was going around about the work the COBBS guys were doing. And then the big shot in the arm, August '04, when UU launched! That first Friday night on Maz' shard was unbelievable. People running around giggling like idiots... people crying... LCC in Yeesha-drag pointing at the stuck Library doors and proclaiming "Open! In the name of Atrus!" (Which they didn't.)

Glorious.

There's a thread over at the DRC site that has an interesting take on those days and how they connect with these days. Well worth a read.