Something about URU on Steam and URU Live Again (aka. URU MMO)

[Chronon]

If you aren't into those exclusive games of the Cyan Complete Pack (Cosmic Osmo (http://store.steampowered.com/app/63620/), Spelunx (http://store.steampowered.com/app/63640/) and The Manhole (http://store.steampowered.com/app/63630/)) I'd suggest people to only buy Myst Masterpiece Edition (http://store.steampowered.com/app/63660/)* and Myst II aka. Riven (http://store.steampowered.com/app/63610/) (plus now also the outside the pack). Then donate the saved 8 bucks for "Myst Online: URU Live Again" run by the developer. (next link)

The retail version of URU is actually a combination of single and multiplayer games and designed with MMO aspect in mind. Later on that part of the game was never compatible with the retail version. (GameTap held the servers for a year or two back in 2007 after that they weren't ran officially.)

The reason why Steam still sells digitalization of this old retail version is that it's (mostly) playable alone even without online servers.

This is how it was meant to be played (]Myst V[/url) back in 2003 and it has been released again by Cyan Worlds, the developer of the Myst series. It is really nice how they went back to make such a nice and [u]free resurrection version of this little MMO after all these years. There might be even new content soon, who knows?


(*Alternatively you can choose REALmyst (http://store.steampowered.com/app/63600/) but that's kind of a rehash =P)

[cst003]

This makes me incredibly happy. I played Myst and Riven "back in the day" on the first computer we had that had a CD-ROM.. I remember Riven being too graphically intensive to really run correctly on our family computer, but I got through it. Unfortunately, I then missed out on Exile and everything past that. I was aware of the MMO aspect of Uru when it came out, but again crappy internet kept me from that experience.

I bought the cyan complete pack just for realMyst & Riven, you know, to experience them again, almost 10 years later.. Was interested in playing Uru's single player mode some to see what it was, but I never in my wildest dreams would have expected Cyan to be still supporting their fanbase like this in keeping the online part still going.

Robin and Rand Miller continue to amaze me ten years later.

@Chronon, thank you so much for posting this thread and that link. the younger me thanks you even more so!

[spyrochaete]

Not only did they make URU Live free, they also released the source code so that people could improve and expand upon the game. That's super cool of them.

Oh, and it's just Rand Miller now. Robin sold his share of the company and Rand renamed it Cyan Worlds.