So, if you're interested, here it is: enjoy!
When Syberia came out (2002), an official website for the game did exist, at the address http://www.syberia.info, with a clumsy community area. Some of us are even that old...
When the game sequel was officially announced, a new website did open, replacing the old one; the new address was http://www.syberia2.info (also reachable at http://www.syberia2-game.com).On this new site the community area was much more developed, with a phpbb forum uniting users from all over the world, offering sections in different languages (English, French and Italian), in which some official members of the relative national publisher of the games also took part.
Unfortunately, Microïds, the company behind Syberia, was having financial issues since the times before the publication of Syberia 2. In 2003 Microïds, gone bankruptcy, joined with MC2, creating the brand MC2-Microïds, with which the developers of Syberia 2 signed the game in 2004, when it was available in stores. The problems though had not been solved, and at the end of 2004 the company seemed to be closed, in liquidation, with only a bookkeeper to estimate what can still be sold! During the first months of 2005 part of it had been acquired by the Canadian studios of Ubisoft (an important videogames publisher).
The consequences of all these facts have been the closure of the official website and the official forum as well, which first had intermittent technical problems and in the end wasn't available anymore.
At the end of 2005 some users of the official forum decided to open a new unofficial Syberia bulletin board, at the address http://forumsyberia2.free.fr, cloning the whole old forum in graphics and structure, with sections for different international users. Via email (thanks God, some users had exchanged their addresses) many old users were contacted and summoned, and during 2006 the community was almost completely reconstructed, even with new people!
Since summer 2007, MC2-Microids official website is live again! The address http://www.microids.com initially showed just the message "Coming soon to your screen..."; despite the difficulties, then, the company never ceased its activities, and came back to life to publish some adventure titles in North America.
Some months later, the site populated with info about their products, and during the second quarter of 2008 two big titles were announced: Still Life 2 and a conversion of Syberia for Nintendo DS, scheduled for October, 2008!
Consequently, on July 2008 the new official websites of the two games were opened, and Syberia came back with having an official space at the address http://www.syberia-series.com... Thanks to the contacts with Microids people, we found an agreement to make our unofficial forum become the new official forum for Syberia, now hosted on Microids servers at the address http://www.syberia-series.com/forum.
We can say that our community has come back to its original location, stronger than ever!
P.S.: You can try and surf the old webpages searching their URLs at http://web.archive.org if you want an idea of how did they look like
, and then they realized it's an extremely beautiful game)
