by stanhin » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:08 am
What's good about it? It's just a diplomatic way of saying they don't know when, if ever, they will approve Volcano.
I don't understand why Cyan doesn't jump on the Volcano bandwagon. Cyan is trying to show its investor that there is a great deal of interest in the return of Live. Allowing Volcano would increase the amount of traffic in Until Uru, so it would help Cyan in its efforts to impress the investor (otherwise, without any new content, UU quickly becomes deadly dull and people drift away). Plus, you obviously have several talented, dedicated, and enthusiastic people who are willing to provide new content for free! For a company strapped for money, what could be more attractive than that? Finally, (since Volcano is designed to be compatible with UU) then without many, if any, of the production costs of which it speaks in its latest reply, Cyan could approve Volcano in its current form on a temporary basis, and then, if and when Cyan is ready to launch Live again on a full basis, Cyan could impose whatever additional preconditions and restrictions it wishes on Volcano in order to continue its approval. But it completely escapes me how Cyan (and its finances) could be anything but helped to have a free group of age makers providing a part of the content of Uru and, thus, helping to generate continued enthusiasm and participation.
