Uru

Shutting Down Descent

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Relating to the Myst Movie post I did earlier. it seems both the website and the thread at the MOUL forums have been removed. Link to Chogon’s post.

I’m removing this thread because I was requested by both sides of this issue to do so. At least until they have worked things out. And it is not because of what any of the fans have posted.

I would like to also ask that y’all please do not post copies or links to copies of what was posted in this thread or in reference to this thread or deleted blogs about this thread… Ok, that is a worded a little strange but you get the idea. Please let them work things out.

Thanks,
Mark

Edited for grammar.

Nothing like silencing a thread to get more people to speak. I wonder if anyone will follow suit.

The Myst Movie aka “The Great Shaft”

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When it comes to making movies based on games, Hollywood seems to have no issues with sacrifice. Sacrificing people or even storyline just to make a quick buck.

In this case, two fellows by the name of Patrick A. McIntire & Adrian Vanderbosch started a project to make Myst into a big movie deal.

In October of 2009, Mysteria Film Group was approached by Roserock Films (headed by Hunt Lowry) to discuss a partnership.  A meeting in December of 2009 sealed a partnership not only with Roserock, but also with Gran Via Productions (headed by Mark Johnson).  The three companies have been working together to further develop the property in preparation for pitching to studios.

Well, they would be anyway. If they didn’t resign from the project. An announcement was made over at the MystOnline forums, posted by Isaac Testerman.

I don’t think this is the time or place to get into the details, but Cyan ultimately came to the decision that the best thing for the property was to have Adrian step down as MFG’s lead producer, and have me step into those shoes.

Their own idea that they presented to Cyan Worlds, and they end up not only changing the original story but they also end up getting rid of the people who originally spent years working with them on it?

This has generated quite a mixed set of emotions in what’s left of the Myst fanbase. Some fans who have been dedicated to Cyan Worlds are now questioning them, accusing them of throwing Adrian and Patrick under the bus just so they can make a profit, some fans don’t know what to think, then there are the fans that still back Cyan 100% no matter what, and then there are some who don’t blame Cyan, but rather Hollywood as an influence.

We may only have two posts to go on regarding what happened. But from either side it seems that two dedicated fans that wanted to see something come to life, met their own version of “The Great Shaft” as quite a few others in the Myst/Uru community have met in the past.

Update

You can now sign a petition to support Adrian and Patrick here.

You Can’t Do That On XBox Condensed! The Tsar’s Tour (Gehn Shard)

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Coverage of the Tsar’s Tour from June 29th 2012.

To check out more of their stuff go to check out The Guild Of Writers website.

As an aside, this is a good time to point out that we have our own youtube channel now! All of our videos in the future will be posted through here.

It was only a matter of time.

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http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic. … highlight=

lzoetje wrote: Lag and crashes and stack errors have happened to me around every 15-30 minutes. Annoying to donate to a game that keeps me out because of hacking jokers, that likely pay nothing. It’s a slap in the face to the story line of the game and yes I realize Skydivers go beyond bounds but to a degree it is for the exploration of areas that interests. Not to make a circus.

Anyone else sick of the lowering quality of gameplay? Like the ppl that care about the game and not coming to make a mess then leaving in a few months?

Am i wrong about the effects? This has been ever since the public event.

L’Sahna

Yes… Lag and stack dumps never existed before all the hacking.

Update

Veralun wrote: Lag, crashes and stack errors are as old as MOUL is.
Several threads are about these issues. Often it is something on the client side.
I noticed you did describe this problem before
The problems you do have are not caused by the “illusions and special effects”. See RAWA’s post
The other instances of the Cavern are unaltered for those who do not like this “circus”.
Instead of fingerpointing to the “hacking jokers” it was better to make a post in the Technical section, to see if your problem could be resolved.
The reactions following on the first post are understandable. But we do not like to see discussions like this, so I will lock this thread.

Please feel free to open a new thread about problems with lag, crashes and stack errors.

Thanks.

Who is he and what did he do with the real veralun? O_o

I miss all the fun.

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Of course while I was kissing the public’s ass, the real FUN stuff happens in an old game I used to play.

http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23576&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

wolfganger:

It appears that the Arch comes and goes and now bahros in the form of specks are seen flying around
along with a tremendous bunch of Bahro screeching.

Has someone hacked the server or is Cyan getting ready to:
1. make an announcement
2. make a change to the game
3. add a new age. (woo wee ! !! ! )

This is not spoilery IMHO.

If it is please have an admin move it, but I don’t think so.

Vanishing arch? Hordes of bahro? And if you go down the list you see things like being thrown into the sky, being linked to relto and sky coloring.

JWSplatt:

This is all hackishness. And it’s a shame, because the word from Cyan about antics like this in the past is that it threatens closure of the game.

It appears this was not Cyan sanctioned. How dare this hacker interrupt the stale atmosphere in the Uru community? Granted, it was hella boring but it’s safer that way, plus it doesn’t threaten our virtual way of life. People who color the sky bright colors should be condemned. Most people know basement dwellers hate bright colors, have you no shame you dirty hacker??? Seriously. You might be the soul cause of shutting down this glorious game, that or making the game deader than it already is.

Now, if Cyan actually did this then it would be perfectly ok. I wish they were around in Until Uru to choose for us what was acceptable and what was not. Cyan’s opinion is my opinion. End of argument.

Update

The MOUL Mod Squad finally got to it. Funny how MystDee let it go, it has officially suffered a “Mac Fife Attack”

>Why not?

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http://www.mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16259&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45

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This is why I think it’s important that they get the plug-in info out now, not after it goes up.

Yes, lets put the cart before the horse! After all everything else in this community has turned out well using this method!

>MORE elitism?

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http://www.mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16173&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Now I’m sure whenever some of you see a thread about ResEng’s for MO:RE, words like “powergrab” and “elitism” come to mind. I’m going to do my best to prove to you that it’s all in your heads.

Some people are saying Cyan should be in charge or no one at all, some are suggesting volunteers, and some are saying no volunteers but rather unpaid employees. But the best suggestion has to be this one:

I wouldn’t have a problem with community moderators in the game. It works fine here on the forums and obviously if you really think you have an issue with an in-game moderator, you file a ticket on it just like you would in WoW.

And there you go! I can’t think of a MORE perfect team. Let the MOUL mods handle MORE the way they handle the forum. I dare anyone to complain about it. Seriously, I want to see how long it will last.

And this is a good definition of this “elitism” floating around.

From what I can tell around here “eliteism” = “whichever group I’m not a part of that gets to do stuff”.

Exactly. And since I’m the leader of the guild of guilds, I have nothing to worry about. All your guild things are belong to us. And since I aspire to be just like the MOUL forum team, I can’t wait to see people like my hero whitch2 doing what she does best on the forum, only in MORE.