It's largely used as a setting for fan machinima now. Official services ended in 2008, but as of 2010, Cyan Worlds released the server source code. Western servers shut down in 2010, while the Japanese servers hang on for two more years, until a much more popular sequel, PSO2, took over.Įssentially a chatroom for people to solve the series' convoluted puzzles in, Myst Online couldn't make a case for itself.

By comparison, PSU was a dated dungeon crawler the moment it arrived. Dark and Light rights were acquired by Snail Games, which made an early access survival game in 2017 using the same name.Ī bland successor to Phantasy Star Online, which was groundbreaking as a console MMO back in 2001. Bugs and poor visuals overpowered the dark and light. Unable to slow-mo dodge the inevitable, all services were shut down on August 1, 2009.Īnother fantasy MMO, Dark and Light's hook were it's, uh, dark and light progression tracks. It worked, but not well enough to keep players around. Monolith Productions had the uneasy task of turning a monolith movie into an MMO.

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