-Bought Uru on launch, signed up for Uru Live not just the online component of the game but the entire reason to buy the game.
-Received email
They shipped the game with four/five shortish levels for offline play (10 to 15 hours worth of play tops the story being a bit lacking) and coming up on a month they've only moved one and a half thousand people (500 a week, "invites" every Monday.), into the online component.
-People who have been "invited" in arrive to find that most of the areas are shutdown as they are still squashing bugs. It's an exploration game with nothing to explore.
-Invitee's have taken to sit down protests in order to get the developers to open up areas or give them something to do.
-We find out from Ubisoft in support emails that the proper game isn't due to come on line until the middle of Quarter One 2004. Which ties into the fact that all our current subscriptions expire in February.
In short, in order to gouge customers this Christmas Ubisoft and CyanWorlds released an unfinished product three months before it was ready to ship.
With luck I might actually gain access to the game before this year ends...maybe.
-Received email
Thank you for signing up to experience Uru Live. The Prologue story of Uru Live has now begun, and explorers are helping to prepare the ground for the grand public opening of Uru Live.
During this phase, access to Uru Live is limited. Over the next few weeks, we will let players in gradually, so be on the lookout for your email invitation from Jeff Zandi. When everybody is in place, the restoration of D'ni? will begin....
We apologize that Uru Live is not completely ready for all explorers. As a bonus, we will be providing the first month after the public opening free to all participants.
During this phase, access to Uru Live is limited. Over the next few weeks, we will let players in gradually, so be on the lookout for your email invitation from Jeff Zandi. When everybody is in place, the restoration of D'ni? will begin....
We apologize that Uru Live is not completely ready for all explorers. As a bonus, we will be providing the first month after the public opening free to all participants.
-People who have been "invited" in arrive to find that most of the areas are shutdown as they are still squashing bugs. It's an exploration game with nothing to explore.
-Invitee's have taken to sit down protests in order to get the developers to open up areas or give them something to do.
-We find out from Ubisoft in support emails that the proper game isn't due to come on line until the middle of Quarter One 2004. Which ties into the fact that all our current subscriptions expire in February.
In short, in order to gouge customers this Christmas Ubisoft and CyanWorlds released an unfinished product three months before it was ready to ship.
With luck I might actually gain access to the game before this year ends...maybe.
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