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Cyan Worlds CEO Tony Fryman has issued a statement announcing the company's plans to release Myst Online: Uru Live as an open source project.
Read more here. |
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OMG true player created content?Is this what im reading? Cyan worlds you got BIG ones thats for sure.This cant be anything but good for the mmo genre.Hopefully this will lead the way to nongeneric gameplay and true innovation.Too long has the standard for a dull mmo been upheld by developers. What is your physical limit? |
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Originally posted by Szark
That's one thing that's not been readily available to devs and hobbyists, server src code to a commercial mmog. |
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Well to be honest, It really depends wich code they going to make Open Source. Myst Online: URU live failed for very obvious reasons. It was boring and it brought nothing new for the fans who already played the previous Single player versions, especially URU. Myst Online was basically a small central hub where people actually could gather onto wich they slapped the zones and puzzles from the single player games. Add to that an extremely poor User Interface with a joke of a chat system. Not to mention the extremely poor performance. So all in all, it wasn't really much of an MMO and in the state it was released it was just bound to fail from the get go. In a nutshell: It was just tthe same as the single player games, just connected to the internet with a poor interface, so you could play the previous games an solve the exact same puzzles again, but then with some other people.
So to make it work, they will need to put all the code online, so the whole game can be completely revamped form the ground up to make it actually look like a MMO with a proper interface. Not to mention a jitload of new content that need to be added to bring something new.
Don't get me wrong. I loved the single player games from Myst all the way to URU. But I was severely dissapointed that Myst Online was so cheaply done, with hardly any new content at all! Just the same stuff from the single player games. Cheers When www met dot , they then stumbled upon Secret Society , wich happened to be a Guild , wich in turn told dot about the net . |
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Puzzle games do not a good MMO make, in fact they make rather bad MMO's. |
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Originally posted by Ozmodan
We don't know that yet. From the evidence we've seen, I'd say pure combat games do not exactly make good MMOs, either. I'll admit the idea behind URU Live was not well implemented, but I'd still take a failure like it over a run of the mill gear-and-combat MMO. |
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katriell
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Joined: 1/23/06
Boredom is in the temperament of the beholder. |
I'm happy to read this news. :) ----------- |
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Midnitte
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Joined: 6/11/06
To not conform is to conform; Always question orders and demand a reason, least you become a Nazi. |
I had post this in the boards awhile ago. >.> Well hopefully they have read The Cathedral and the Bazaar, sounds very interesting to see this game going open source. :)
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