Trivia
On February 4, 2008 GameTap decided to shut down Myst Online: Uru Live citing "business reasons rather than any issues regarding the design and vision of the amazing world." GameTap's Vice President of Content Ricardo Sanchez assured players that while the alternative, adventure-based MMO would be closed down very shortly, the servers that operate the game would continue to do so for the following 60 days.
This announcement came only 11 days before Uru's one year anniversary -- a year in which it was never a great financial success, but instead attracted a cult following among adventure gamers. In a case of unfortunate timing, the announcement of the game's closure came just as Uru fans had been anticipating a content update instead.
Contributed by
Jeanne 
(59517) on Feb 06, 2008.
According to an interview with Rand Miller, Myst Online: URU Live will not be released in a boxed, retail version. It will only be available as a download through GameTap or other online servers.
Contributed by
Jeanne (59517) on Apr 20, 2007.
