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NCsoft clarifies its rationale for closing Tabula Rasa
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www.massively.com — Filed under: Sci-fi , MMO industry , Tabula Rasa , Massively Interviews Last week we spoke very briefly with NCsoft's Director of Public Relations David Swofford about the company's decision to close Tabula Rasa. He reiterated the basic statement we heard from several sources surrounding the ...

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TR: Surprise!
The Common Sense Gamer — ... P.S. This “clarification” is the biggest bunch of BS I’ve ever read. They new well ahead of Operation Immortality that TR was in trouble. ...

Massively week in Review
The Joystiq Podcast — ... NCsoft clarifies its rationale for closing Tabula Rasa Last week we spoke very briefly with NCsoft's Director of Public Relations David Swofford about the company's decision to close ...

Catching up with MMOG Nation
MMOG Nation — ... . Sorry, I know I should be more politik about it, but that’s why this is my personal site and not my responsible-day-job site. I appreciate that they have business needs and all that kinda jazz, but guess what? I’m a player. I don’t have to care about their bottom line. The herculean efforts of the team to ...

Lord British still likes WoW
WoW.com — ... Rich Garriott, aka Lord British, aka one of the grandfathers of MMO gaming and even gaming in general through the Ultima series, has fallen on some tough times lately. His latest attempt to re-enter the MMO market, Tabula Rasa, was recently cancelled, and with that, so was his job at NCSoft. Still, according to computerandvideogames.com, he says he's ready to bounce back and get right into the gaming market. But on a more topical note, he says something in the article about World of Warcraft, praising them for their phenomonal growth and saying that ...

What the numbers mean
Tobold's MMORPG Blog — ... Of course the same is true for WAR: As long as they make more money than they spend, WAR could keep going. But companies do close games that still make a small profit, for example Tabula Rasa, if that profit just isn't large enough. If the development cost of WAR was higher than I guessed, and the profit margin lower, how do you think the investors feel if it will take 10 or 20 years at the current rate (which isn't guaranteed to be the future rate) to pay back the investment? At the very least they'll want to reduce that time by increasing profit, which is done by decreasing ...

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