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they were in a position to take that kind of risk to say like, yeah, what's the future of games gonna be? And let's make this constantly updating thing. And then for Ubisoft to look at it and say, Excuse me, you're doing fucking what and then just, you know, pull the plug on it once it became clear what the future of this thing was, but games as a service. No, guys, stupid. Ubisoft is a longtime defender of games as a service. What are you talking about? They famously keep their servers online forever. They're…
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... financial backer for you know, this this massive studio they built no longer existed. Today, it's kind of unfortunate, but fascinating. The south campus they have leased out to a local mega church. So cyan is the landlord for a local church. And that is what the what that's what the development offices are now. But it's the kind of thing where it's like, they were in a position to take that kind of risk to say like, yeah, what's the future of games gonna be? And let's make this constantly updating thing. And then for Ubisoft to look at it and say, Excuse me, you're doing fucking what and then just, you know, pull the plug on it once it became clear what the future of this thing was, but games as a service. No, guys, stupid. Ubisoft is a longtime defender of games as a service. What are you talking about? They famously keep their servers online forever. They're they're great about that. But but it's unfortunate because they had a lot of stuff that was in the works or partially done. And that's what the the expansion packs to over that are now rolled into the you know, the live version of the game where it was like content that was almost ready to be done, but not quite. That's what missed five was was like, okay, we have this half finished Uru content, let's just put a bow on this and sell it. So the cancellation of Uru had like really awful ripple effects for cyan. And it's like I get why they took the risk. It just was not one that anyone was willing to put the bill on. ...