Blogging Up A Revitalized Uru
February 5, 2007 4:31 PM | Simon Carless
Just spotted the rather fun UruBlogs.com, which is an aggregator of the adventures of travelers in Myst Online: Uru Live, Cyan Worlds and GameTap's resurrected MMO that's officially launching on February 15th.
The original incarnation of the MMO had a hardcore, mythos-obsessed fanbase, and it looks like there's plenty of similar talk in the new world of Myst Online: "A really cool thing is the new timeline, with some nice pictures about the discovery of D’ni. And the best thing is the section “Restoration project”, wich is a finally updated progress list. As you can see, the Museum, Dereno (never heard of that before…), Eder Tsogal, Er’cana and Negilahn are in Phase Five currently. So, those are (almost) ready to be opened!
Blogger Erik also notes the D'ni Restoration Council's website, grinning: "I can’t wait to visit Er’cana, I’ve heard so much about that already. And Negilahn seems to be very interesting as well, a Museum Age, a big jungle. And of course, I can’t wait to finally visit Tsogal and I really want to know more about Dereno!" Is this content from the original heyday of Uru being put back in, or is this all so 'virtual' that they're just talking about things that never happened?
Categories: PC
2 Comments
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Ryan in exile | February 5, 2007 4:56 PM
It's more like heyday content than make-believe.
Er'cana was a world that was released in a single-player expansion, but never made it into the MMO version. Negilahn has been talked about ever since the beginning of development, but never released beyond a few screenshots. Eder Tsogal is new to the resurrected version of Uru, and Cyan has released several screenshots. Dereno's all new, and no one knows anything about it.
One thing you might not know is that Uru got kept alive (read: on life support) by "Until Uru," which was basically a way for fans (and eventually Cyan) to run their own Uru servers with the old content. So some of these bloggers have been exploring the cavern for a couple of years now.
Gregory Weir | February 6, 2007 7:34 AM