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[maztec]

[maztec]

[_ Paula _]

maztec....please contact me at paulasnellgrove at juno dot com. I'd contact you first, but don't have an e-mail for you and this forum doesn't have a private message service yet.

Pa'lua (in Cavern)

[Equisilus]

I'd have to admit that I bought Uru for two, equally valid reasons (in my mind). I voted for your "play Uru Prime" choice, because I've always been primarily a single player in any game I've ever owned. This extends even to games that have extensive multiplayer aspect to them. I recently became much more interested in the Adventure game genre after playing Syberia, and intended on growing my Adventure game collection with Uru. But, low and behold, I hear of this incredible pre-order offer that would allow me to get all four Myst adventure games all at the same time, for the price of one. I could not pass that up, and thus I jumped on the bandwagon.

Having now completed both Myst and Riven, and moving into Exile before Uru, I'm entirely satisfied with that choice. The games, so far, have made me quite interested in the series and I will be taking part in the Uru Live Prologue (and the free trial period) to get a feel for if it's something I'd like to do online. Regardless of whether I continue with the online portion or not, I fully intend on continuing adventuring in the Myst "universe" for as long as they make the games.

[WendyG]

My answer is "To Play URU Live and knew it was Pay2Play!"

Although, since the question is "Why did you buy Uru?", I wish you had dropped the "I will not buy it" choice and added: "To Play URU Live and knew it was Pay2Play but did not know it was broadband only".

More seriously, the previews out there (Gamespot, JustAdventure, The Inventory) all mention the online component. As a veteran of MMORPG's, I knew I'd have to pay a subscription for that.

2 of my friends who knew a tiny bit more about the game than me also presented it as Myst with the ability to play online.

That's a first for adventure games and it got me really excited about the idea. I am in a small discussion group with half a dozen adventure players (we've been chatting together for close to 10 years) and they are very intrigued at the idea of going online to play an adventure game too.

This is a first and a really exciting one in that market.

Whether it is subscription based or not and whether it requires broadband or not, I bought the game to play Uru Live. the one thing that all the other adventure games out there won't let me do.

Let's hope that turns out to be possible.

WendyG

[Leonorcris]

I bought it mainly to play single player but I hope to eventually get online with it. My only problem is that I had to buy a new computer to play it on and it wont come until next week. So I get to look at the box and anticipate....

[Whitch2]

There's that dead horse again...........

[WendyG]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Whitch2:
There's that dead horse again...........<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, that was an enlightening reply.

See the replies above. People actually got attracted to the game for quite varied reasons.

WendyG

[shadowcats]

Hi maztec..
I voted
To Play URU Live and knew it was Pay2Play
but also for Prime version.
Also you know what you have started.
This whole debate about free, not free, cost was included in buying URU ect... you know what i mean from the other forum.
Anyhow good to read you here see ya....

*** I'm A Figment of my own Imagination ***

[Whitch2]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by WendyG:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Whitch2:
There's that dead horse again...........<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, that was an enlightening reply.

See the replies above. People actually got attracted to the game for quite varied reasons.

WendyG<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>



See the reply below:

If the questions in the poll had asked simply why the game was bought...for online, offline, or both it would be an interesting...and very possibly enlightening thread. If it was so important to start up the "I didn't know, I thought it was free" issue, then fine. That would be another 'enlightening' thread. The fact is, qualifying the second choice with the second issue is simply opening up the same old.....same old(read: dead horse), that has been going on for some time now in the previous forum.

I stand by what I said.