I haven't been around in a couple weeks and i saw that the Status Report from August is still up there on the Forums and i just thought if maybe Cyan (you couple guys Busting your Butts to get us all back in the best game around ) could just give us a little status report and saw we're still working hard to get you guys in there...

Anyone else out there just curious on how things are going?

I'm very curious, and would really like to know what's going on.
However, sometimes no news is good news, so I'm almost fine with no news.

It might help jump-start the discussions again...

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However, sometimes no news is good news

It was proven wrong. Twice.

We could use an update, it doesn't have to be about MOUL RE, but about Cyan Worlds as a whole (situation). After all, no Cyan Worlds no MOUL, right?

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I really think that Cyan should be using MORE as free advertising by a weekly, bi-weekly developer diary, much akin to Bungie Weekly Updates when they're working on a game. The reason being, is that Cyan could attract amateur, hopeful, and current game developers to their product by showing this group the method of building, testing, and finalizing a massively multiplayer game. Even if it's a small majority, it's a few hours of prepping an article, and it's free press.

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the message in the Episode 6 release notes [sic]...[sic] finally makes sense -- the DRC shipped them off to Halo 3 to "prevent the safety" of players there!

Yes, that's a good idea, a Cyan Worlds blog that will follow their progress.

Though I fear we first need updates before ideas .

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I agree it is past time for an update. It would be helpful if Cyan could get into a rhythm. First of the month, we get an update. I realize they are busy, however we do require updates to stay engaged.

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I think it's about time we were updated too!

TG

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I'd have preferred this poll to ask how frequent would you like updates... so i didn't select an option.

I think for myself quarterly reports are about as shy as you'd like to get (4 a year, once every 3 months.)

An update once every 2 months would be nice.

Reading these forums, I am left felling like some of you want it monthly, or even with even greater frequency. (Bi-weekly?)

Am I factual in saying: There are 2 individuals working on MORE during their off hours (spare time?)

How much realistically is gonna transpire in a month, given those factors?

So for myself, given these factors, a word once every 2 months is desirable given that the news is likely to be slim and occasionally nothing new. Just a, "hello still plugging away, but nothing major to report. might be all we get. At 2 month intervals, I think that is palatable. Increase the frequency and I can see that also having a detrimental effect.

2 people, side project. If that is factual, I don't think expecting more out of MORE's prep is a realistic proposition. Just sayin'.

Also, we did get an unofficial update recently; buried in a thread still on the first page of this forum section. So I am good for another couple months.

Hmm... It appears that we all agree that no news is good, ordinary, and bad.

Either way, I think the MORE team is doing something important. The most likely (in my opinion) are:

Working on MORE: Good.
Making money elsehow: Good, Cyan is better than no Cyan.
Trying to find money to make: Good, Cyan is better than no Cyan.
Brainstorming: Good
Other, Nothing (Fighting off zombies or crazy fans or legal complications we don't know about): Bad

My pitiful and biased list tells me that there is a four in five chance that they are doing something favorable (To both them and us).

Anyway, I think/hope/tell myself that if MORE was completely abandoned they wouldn't have any reason to not tell us.

^That is the most rambley, illegible, poorly written post I've ever seen (mine, not anyone else's)^

Agreed, Jarryd. The MO:RE development staff consists of 2 people right now - hardly enough to justify a frequent series of developer diaries.

I think one update every 2 months, or whenever something notable happens, is perfectly fine.

I don't want to be in the dark about what is going on at Cyan, but I don't want their efforts slowed by constant updates for the fans, either.

Do we really want daily updates like this?:

Chogon: Today I ate a sandwich for lunch. I also worked on some frames of iMyst.

Tweek: I wrote another 22 lines of code and helped set up the servers. I sat in my office drinking coffee.

Rand: I chatted with Robyn on the phone and then worked some more on the pitch we're planning to give to a publisher.



Granted, it's not quite like that, but you get the idea. Not much of major importance happens on any given day, any given week, even in a single month, as far as MO:RE (or Cyan) is concerned.

If something significant does happen though, I think we'd all like to know about it - and I do think Cyan will tell us about it when something interesting actually happens.

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I thought Tweek was in another country.

However, I'd like to see little updates by people like that. Imagine the flood of posts theorizing about what game Rand is planning to pitch!
(And I'd like a little update here and there from them on stuff they can talk about. Even Chogon or Danear coming to say "iMyst is going well. Scenes mostly in and laid out, now we're working on animations!" or "I hate the iPhone's sound libraries with a passion." or something like that)


Trouble is that updating us isn't their job.. and it's amazing they even let us know the iMyst project was in progress and making a fair bit of it too. I'd like them to be open about stuff they do, but it's all their option nothing more. I can wait... but like everyone else I won't be patient in the interim.

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I am (but then Mark isn't in Spokane either), but the issue here is I code websites not game servers

Also Robyn hasn't been at Cyan since Riven.

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Squid wrote:

Other, Nothing (Fighting off zombies or crazy fans or legal complications we don't know about): Bad

Oh. I uh... man, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...

http://pxcomic.com/browsestory.php?storyline=164

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