Qveni wrote:

WHAT IF I'M MARRIED WITH KIDS IN 2 YEARS?!

Then you have people to play MOUL with! (Hey, ask around, you'll get a lot of parents who have kids hooked on the series, or vice versa)

But for now, get that burger, and better get another for the road as we have a while to wait.

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Emor D'ni Lap wrote:

SCGreyWolf wrote:

While none of that is a bad idea the best way to get money into Cyan's hands would be for Cyan to sell some sort of bond or preferred stock. Talk about community then!

GreyWolf, I appreciate your idea and agree that it would generate interest in the general Myst community.
But - correct me if I'm wrong - I think Cyan has always seemed to avoid the notion of "going public", and probably for good reason. When it comes to profitability, shareholders can be even tougher taskmasters than CEOs! And if you think our group has been volatile at times in the past, imagine where we'd go once dollars were dangled in our faces! On the other hand, I'd also like to think that we are a kind and gentle group that would be very forgiving and understanding about the vagaries of our stock or bond investments in this particular case.....hmmmm.

The co-op model I envisioned would be less of an investment and more of an outright donation.
Benefits could be created that would be proportional to donation, though (and those benefits would not necessarily have to be visible in-game).

The investment option would be more sensible legally. There would never be a cloud of "what did they do with my donation" then.

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That's the problem, I only want to worry about finding secret paths and whatnot. Not changing diapers. Gee, does this make me a bad future mom? hm.....

Dads change diapers too. Get him to do it while you're catching up on sleep.

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I am sure the time will pass quickly and things will work out well in all ways. It is nice to look forward to the possiblity of discoveirng more about the wonderful D'ni story as time and circumstances allow.

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thanks for the info......i was waiting for news....any news.

could you tell me when the agreement between gametap and myst will expire.

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In about two years.

See this article:
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/txt/archive/?postID=5380#more

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Chogon himself has said the terms are confidential, and indeed such terms can be amended by agreement by both parties, so we just do not know anything specific at this time and wait for things to unfold and contnue to support Cyan in whatever is best for them.

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In the absense of other information, the facts are what we can count on. The expiration two years hence is the specific published word of Cyan and therefor not confidential. All else is speculation and hope. I have lots of that too.

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Chogon has clearly expressed the desire to keep this matter quiet and for us to allow Cyan to work on it at their own pace and that respect and patience is what I continue to support along with the future which can change as things allow and may make possible.

Chogon said:

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Chogon

Cyan Employee

Joined: 02 Aug 2006

Posts: 139

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:41 pm — Post subject:

Gondar wrote:

Zenguy wrote:

Can you let us know what the current expiry date for the contract is?
(I know you couldn't comment about changing the contract.)

I'm gonna guess no... that seems to be part of said contract


Correct, Gondar.

Thanks,
Chogon

There is so much to share and enjoy and to study in the wonderful story of URU, D'ni and MOUL I continue to feel our patience and trust and hope for the future is best expressed by this appreciation and by just letting Cyan and t=he other parties work things out in ther own time and way.

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That exchange was before the article was published in which Tony Fryman generously released the information.

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The point being that hopefully we can allow Cyan to proceed at their own pace and share with us as is best for them. I am happy that there is information for us, and happy that it comes as is best for the overall process.

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Is GD back from vacation, or still out? Hope he had a good time.

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Thank you all who posted in this thread opinions and facts. I just wanted to point out that regardless of the time frame it can take for Cyan to get control again of Myst Online Uru Live (MOUL) that the guilds will continue to grow in abilities, cooperation, connectivity and content. That it will surely be interesting for Cyan and everyone else interested to watch the fans and guilds members to grow the Uru game content of story, new ages, new puzzles and more. And if and when Cyan does get the ability to reintroduce a MOUL 3 game, I am pretty sure that the available new ages and stories created during the wait will have become of the quality and standards to which Cyan could make use of them by means of setting standards for them to be implimented and/ or incorporated into the next MOUL game. I read through the forum threads enough to see that the tools to create new and pull together old Myst games content is evolving quicky, in spite of others objections and protests. Wanted or not, liked by all or not, fan created Uru content will be made and eventually, played one way or another. My point being that Cyan's Myst games and Uru Live has demonstrated such a a devoted fan base and popularity in that licenses and copy rights have not in the past nor will likely in the future stop the games continuation and evolution. That private hacked shards are probably already running and growing new game content while perfecting the bugs out of the old. Please do not mistake my post here about my obsevations and opinions be mistaken for my condoning what is against the law or morally unkind or fair to Cyan, developers, etc... If I recall right, there is already a few threads for that debate going on.

MOUL 3 That will be interesting to see.

Sounds like the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem,
and GameTap is the Dome of the Rock.

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