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by Chris Remo, Sep 29, 2005 5:59pm PDTOnly a few weeks ago, Myst developer Cyan Worlds called it quits, laying off all of its staff and announcing that it would cease game development. However, company co-founder Rand Miller revealed to journalist Dean Takahashi in an email that, remarkably, the company was somehow saved in the 11th hour.
"We've had a reprieve. Managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat (that I can't give details about yet), so we rehired almost everybody. Crazy industry. It's giving me whiplash!"He did not cite specific reasons for the news. Given that Myst V: End of Ages, the last title in the bestselling Myst series, was released only last week, it seems unlikely that it was better-than-expected sales that brought the company from the brink. It seems reasonable to assume that the company will have some sort of tentative product announcement at some point in the near future. After this, they've got some 'splaining to do.
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They (Cyan) said they'd stop making Myst games after Riven. Myst 3 and Myst 4 were done respectively by the late Presto studios and Ubi Montreal.
During this time Cyan worked on Uru. For serveral years, and they poor all their ressources in it. Now Uru finally got released. It bombed and the online part 'Uru Live' is canned before it even goes out of beta. (to this day I still haven't understand why.. anyway.)
After that they were basically out of money. The unexpected fate of Uru Live had left them with tons of unused assets, unended storylines and demanding fans. So they sat around a table and decided to do a Myst 5 with all that. They had to; so as not to close the door. And Ubisoft agreed with that.
Like it or hate it; at any rate it is the last Myst. They're moving on to a new IP. And I hope they suceed.
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Oh well.
*Continues to not care*
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Hopefully they can take the company in a more lucrative direction.
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