Comments on: Fans celebrate rebirth of 'dead' online game

When "Uru Live" launches, it will mark return of a popular game once left for dead. Thank its hard-core fandom for the revival.

[LegoAddict]

MYST Online: Uru Live

This is the most exciting thing since... well... just since.

I can't wait to see all the new Ages and be able to meet the people I've interacted with on the forum. I certainly hope that CyanWorlds releases the Age Creation tool soon after Launch.


And just to clear something up: Uru Live will be available outside GameTap to international customers via another way in to the Cyan server.


Oh, and a correction for the article, CyanWorlds, Inc, implemented the new physics engine, not GameTap. GameTap, as far as has been released by Cyan, is not involved in the actual implementation of things on the Uru Live program.

[Robert The Rebuilder]

Signing up for Uru Live Beta

You can still sign up for Uru Live Beta - visit the link below:

http://www.urulive.com/betasignup.php

[She_and_Ski]

Gametap Repeating Marketing Blunder 3 years later

For those not familiar, Gametap will officially launching the "reborn" Uru Live product any day now (February 2007). However in conjunction with this action they are shutting down the member run Until Uru environment which held the loyal Myst/URU community together for the past three years since the original game closing.

The fact that history is repeating itself, on the three year anniversary since the last closing is shocking to the fan base. Even worse the Myst/URU community is strongly international and the new Gametap product is NOT available in all countries. This drives a schism in the community to create those who "have" and those who "have not". It is just a poor marketing move.

Another round of viral bad publicity will come out of this. Why the corporate planners would think any form of bad news would be good around a product launch is just amazing.....

It would be far more prudent to delay this action until 8 months after the launch when they will have much more statistical data as to the product uptake. They will have a better idea how many people are renewing their 1 year subscription by then.