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EmilyBlips I'm still kind of in shock, but it's true that this game just wasn't as awesome as I had hoped...and I did hope! I was so psyched...blargh.
NCSoft's Tabula Rasa To Cease Operations In February
Worlds In Motion —
... The news was delivered via the game's official site in a letter signed "The Tabula Rasa Team." The closure was pinned simply on a failure for the title to meet its financial targets. ...
Tabula Rasa to Close
MMOG Nation —
It is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009. Before we end the service, we’ll make Tabula Rasa servers free to play starting on January 10, 2009. We can assure you that through the next couple of months we’ll be doing some really fun things in Tabula Rasa, and we plan to make staying on a little longer worth your while. For more details about what we are doing for Tabula Rasa players, please click here. Stay tuned for more information. We thank you for your loyal support of the game and encourage you to take us up on the ...
Tabula Rasa To Close
Broken Toys —
... And it’s official.
Good luck to everyone at NC affected by this news.
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Tabula Rasa to shut down in February 2009
Massively —
... MMO community.According to the announcement, the folks at TR plan on going out in style, though. Not only will they continue to pump out some new, quality content in the remaining months, but the game will actually go free-to-play for its final month and a half. You can check out more of their... Tabula Rasa to shut down in February 2009 originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | ...
NCSoft is Cleaning Tabula Rasa’s Slate
Pumping Irony —
... through the next couple of months we’ll be doing some really fun things in Tabula Rasa, and we plan to make staying on a little longer worth your while. For more details about what we are doing for Tabula Rasa players, please click here.
Stay tuned for more information. We thank you for your loyal support of the game and encourage you to take us up on the benefits we’re offering Tabula Rasa players.
The Tabula Rasa Team
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This is why NCSoft needs something akin to SOE’s Station ...
It’s Official: Tabula Rasa to Close
Ardwulf's Lair —
... An apparently official announcement states that Tabula Rasa willl be closing forever on February 28, 2009. While I’m not a Tabula Rasa player, this is a terrible shame. There was a good game there. ...
The End of Tabula Rasa
Kill Ten Rats —
... Last November we launched what we hoped would be a ground breaking sci-fi MMO. In many ways, we think we’ve achieved that goal. Tabula Rasa has some unique features that make it fun and very different from every other MMO out there. Unfortunately, the fact is that the game hasn’t performed as expected. The development team has worked hard to improve the game since launch, but the game never achieved the player population we hoped for.
So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009. ...
Tabula Rasa Closing Down…
The Ramblings of JoBildo —
This bites.
I realize that I ripped on this game in beta. But I played it after release, and loved a whole lot about it before I started working on Conan for TTH. It’s one of those titles that could really benefit from having an alternate payment method, or even by being free like Guild Wars. Auto Assault was the same way, really. Decent game, with faults no doubt, and really suffered from stiff competition in terms of what you get for 15 bucks a month. No wonder Richard Garriott wanted to distance himself before it ...
Logging Off for Good
Tabula Rasa Vault - The Ultimate Resource —
... With a population lower than they had expected, the team at NCSoft has just announced they will be ending live service of Tabula Rasa on February 28, 2009. They had lofty goals and wanted to bring something different to the community, but without the player population, they just can't keep it up. But for all who have never tried it, the team is opening up the game for free from January 10, 2009 through the day they go offline. So jump in while you can, maybe a resurgence of players will keep it up and running. Read the full letter over at ...
The Slow, Disturbing Death of Tabula Rasa
Wandering Goblin —
... This one caught us by surprise: Tabula Rasa, the sci-fi MMO by Richard Garriott and NCSoft, is shutting down at the end of February, 2009. The official word is that the game's population is simply too small to support ongoing development of the title. Since we ...
Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa A Complete Failure
pΘtshΘt —
... NC Soft announced that it will shutter the game at the end of February.
Ok, that’s a bit harsh. But what’s really worse? This headline or the hubris that it takes to include your name in the game’s title? Or that fact that all that money basically went for nought?
Quite frankly, the entire notion of the RG-centricity of the marketing put me off the game almost from the date it was announced. Seriously, why didn’t they just call it “RICHARD GARRIOTT’S ENORMOUS E-PEEN (now with free MMO)(TM)”. ...
Another One Bites The Dust
Channel Massive —
... Tabula Rasa’s time of death is officially called at February 28, 2009. At least NCSoft is ...
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Blog Posts from "WAAAGH!" - Gameriot.com —
... The funeral in question is for NCSoft’s Tabula Rasa, aka Richard “Lookit Me, I’m Inna Space!” Garriot’s Tabula Rasa. With Auto Assault shutting down its doors last year, this makes two semi-high profile NCSoft titles that have bit the big one recently, with more cuts (Dungeon Runners?) possibly to come. ...
And the next MMO is.....
Funcom...riddle me this.. —
Tabula Rasa... Haha.. Thanks to this little doozy So, on Dec. 10th, I will register my key from my .96 cent box, and enjoy my 30 days...which will turn into 60 days instead. What a hoot. Nice. Of course I better verify I can do that, or suffer the Hellgate fate, where anyone that bought a box after the announcement of death could not sign up for online access. 2 Months...about as much as I can stay in an MMO nowadays anyways. Perfect amount of time. Goodbye TR. And with that, the death of another Sci-Fi MMO. ...
Tabula Rasa shutting down on Feb. 28
The Joystiq Podcast —
... We kind of knew that Tabula Rasa's run wasn't going to end all that well. And it will end ... on Feb. 28, 2009. This comes after months of reports concerning the NCsoft MMO's poor performance and, most recently, the departure of creator Richard ...
Tabula Rasa Offline
NecroRogIcon —
... game never caught hold, and like other recent MMOs it had gameplay elements that banked on high populations to create the right atmosphere.
The game still has Richard Garriott's name attached to it, although he officially left NCsoft a few weeks ago. I hope good old Lord British sticks around in the videogame industry, but he understandably has a variety of other interests, having recently returned back to planet Earth.
You can read NCSoft's related press releases here and here. I'll quote the subscriber-related one in its entirety (since I doubt ...
Massive Mess of an Opinion Question of the Week (Sponsored by Splitreason.com)
Channel Massive —
... By now most of you have heard of Tabula Rasa’s untimely demise. It’s never fun to see this happen to an MMO. Dedicated fans get the shaft, employees get canned, and the MMO community as a whole suffers from it. ...
Donning a Cape for a ‘Cast
MMOG Nation —
... has been outstanding and we could think of no-one more qualified to do it justice. The added bonus that comes with Michael is that he loves comic books. We chat about what we have been playing, reading, cartoons and the end of Tabula Rasa .
A clean slate indeed
MMO Gamers —
As you may have heard, Tabula Rasa will be shutting down its servers and going the way of the Dodo. “So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009” It is regrettable. I picked up my copy of TR the day of its release and was captivated by the game. The world looked good, the graphics looked good, the characters looked good. Combat was fun, the guild I joined was great, and doing instances together was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, it all got a bit dull very fast. After six weeks I had stopped playing. I went back to ...
Everything Old Is New Coke Again
LagORama —
... On November 21st, NCSoft announced that they would be sunsetting Tabula Rasa at the end of Februrary 2009. This has led to quite an uproar in the MMO community, bringing out the usual cries of “I’ll never buy an NCSoft MMO again…I can’t trust them!” in comment sections all over the internet. ...
