Zitat von der Patchallel-Seite:
RAWA Speaks Out
RAWA wrote to The Lyst: "Clarification: the expansion packs generate quite a bit less revenue for us than the monthly subscription to Live would have generated, considering that To D'ni and The Path of the Shell have about six months worth of content (as far new real estate to explore that would have been opened gradually over that time period), but instead of paying $60 - $90 over that six months (6 months X $10-$15), you're getting it all for about $20.
"I am fully aware that there's less value for you since you can't visit with people, explore together, participate in the "live" events and stories, etc. I'm not saying that the expansion packs are worth the same as Live would have been. I'm just saying that we have to sell a lot more expansion packs than we would have needed subscriptions in order to break even with them, roughly 4x as many by my semi-educated estimates.
"What made To D'ni and The Path of the Shell feasible is that most of the content in them was well underway (in phases 3, 4 or 5) when Live was cancelled. The story had to be completely changed, the phase 3 and 4 areas had to be completed, and puzzles had to be reworked for the new story and for single player (some a little, some a lot), but it was doable. Path of the Shell uses up what was nearing completion. So any expansion packs after Path of the Shell would take longer, costing more to produce, and therefore are a huge gamble until we have a better idea how well they will sell.
"The powers that be at Ubisoft were not interested in giving us an advance for another expansion pack at this time. To see it from their persepctive: it has not yet been proven that the xpacks will even pay for themselves. Fair enough. If TPOTS sells well enough, I assume that they will change their opinion about that, and we will be happy to oblige them.
"The powers that be at Ubisoft _were_ interested in giving us an advance for a different project. As we wrap up TPOTS, we are heading full force into that project, but don't expect to hear much about it for a while.
"We'll so Something Else (tm) as we wait and see how TPOTS does. But no one, including Rand, knows at this point whether it is the last expansion pack ever. We hope it is not. Time (and TPOTS sales) will tell."
Die Statements die inzwischen von mehreren Cyan-Mitarbeitern abgegeben wurden hören sich alle nicht besonders gut an, was eine mögliche Weiterentwicklung von Uru anbelangt.
Nur wenn das XP 2 sehr gut verkauft wird und Ubi umschwenken sollte, besteht die Chance auf weitere Folgen.
Auch GreyDragon hatte schon darauf hingewiesen und die Fans gebeten, die 'The Path of the Shell' Seite durch verlinken auf allen Websites bei Google nach oben zu bringen, damit Uru bekannter wird und der Verkauf
angekurbelt wird.
Ich denke, Cyan selbst liegt sehr viel an der Weiterentwicklung von Uru, nur insgesamt rechnet es sich nicht und Ubi selbst hat wohl kein großes Interesse daran und spekuliert auf andere Games. 
Schade, schade kann ich da nur sagen. 
Lemura
