playtr.com - 3/1/2009
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As we return to Earth, our battle comes
to an end. Thank you to all the fans...
who have supported us for the last few years! We hope you have enjoyed your journey through the galaxy and that the next worlds you visit will be filled with excitement and ...
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Tabula Rasa® - Transmission over
playtr.com - 2/27/2009
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Transmission 348ATZ56 Decryption Code 16-E To All AFS
Personnel; Special Intelligence units throughout AFS territory have been...
monitoring an escalation of Bane assaults and communications in the recent weeks. Some of the communications have been ...
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Tabula Rasa® - Feedback Friday: 02/27/09
playtr.com - 2/27/2009
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### Incoming Transmission ### The final Bane assault
on Foreas, Arieki, and parts unknown will commence on...
Saturday, February 28th. Please join us to help battle back the Bane armies one last time! The attack is slated to commence at approximately 8 ...
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Tabula Rasa® - Tabula Rasa Shutdown Events
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Dismissed! The final moments of Tabula Rasa
Massively —
Filed under: Sci-fi, Screenshots, Video, Culture, Events, real-world, Events, in-game, MMO industry, Tabula Rasa
Despite any glimmer of hope from fans that the game could somehow be saved, NCsoft's Tabula Rasa closed down last night in a truly epic ...
This Is The End: Tabula Raises Hell
Rock, Paper, Shotgun —
MMOs are supposed to be the never-ending story. When one bucks that trend - when it concludes - it becomes something else entirely. In hindsight, is it still the same looped search for short-term personal rewards that it began as (and that its peers remain to be), or does it become a complete experience, more akin to a traditional game?
We already knew troubled sci-fi MMORPG Tabula Rasa (the “Richard Garriot’s” was dropped when Big Beard jumped ship from the project last year) was to shut down in early 2009. What we didn’t know is whether it would go with a bang, a whimper, or just the click-BZZZzzzzzzt of a central server ...
Analysis: Tabula Rasa's Final Moments - A Firsthand Account
Worlds In Motion —
[What's it like inside the end of a game world? Gamasutra's Chris Remo visits NCsoft's Tabula Rasa in its final days, joining the community that turned out in throngs for a surprisingly kooky farewell party.]
Last Friday, I visited a doomed world for the first time.
That day, publisher NCsoft had announced that, as a parting gift to the remaining fans of Destination Games' sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa, there would be a final, decisive conflict between the game's human players and their alien invaders.
Tabula Rasa, initially spearheaded by Ultima creator Richard Garriott, had been open to the public for 16 months, ...
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Tabula Rasa: The Final Stand - Video Tribute
warcry.com 3/1/2009 — Last night, the MMO universe lost one of its own as Tabula Rasa's AFS warriors stormed back to Earth for the final epic battle in New York's shattered streets. The battle was tough, but the fighters won, and the game was over. Thanks to the live team ...
Goodbye to Tabula Rasa —
Life in Azeroth
I have often said I enjoy playing Sci Fi MMORPGs more than fantasy. Maybe I should change that to I enjoy the idea of playing sci fi over fantasy. Because the last day to play Tabula Rasa was today . And I don't even remember why I didn't bother trying it out. Based on my blog I was, no surprise ...
A clean slate —
MMO Gamers
Tabula Rasa is no more. Goodbye Deacon Rex, Exo-Biologist. You will never see the sun rise on another day.
The Daily Grind: A farewell to Tabula Rasa —
Massively
As this morning dawns across the world, the ranks of MMO communities are down by one. Tabula Rasa , started on the same day that Massively opened its doors , has closed down after one final, epic battle. As MMO players, just about all of us can relate as to how much it would suck to lose ...
Tabula Rasa R.I.P. —
Pumping Irony
After several hours of the AFS players furiously and frantically battling the Bane and the nefarious Neph, Earth and all Allied territories fell to the alien invaders. All we once knew is now but a memory. Nothing exists but darkness.
Tabula Rasa’s Live team made one final post this morning ...
Tabula Rasa: The Final Stand —
Stropp's World
Tabula Rasa: Years in development, including a change from fantasy to science fiction, is now no more.
Last night saw the final Tabula Rasa server shutdown events occur as the devs put on something extra for the fans of the game that stuck with them
The Warcry Network put up a Tabula Rasa ...
Weekend Celebration of Life and Death —
Pumping Irony
This weekend, DDO reaches the 3 year mark, while over in Tabula Rasa the Allied Free Sentients are making their final stand against the Bane before the servers shut off later tonight. The festivities for each game began yesterday.
First, DDO’s Birthday Bonus XP :
DDO is celebrating its 3rd ...
Apocalypse Soon: Tabula Rasa going out with a bang —
The Joystiq Podcast
It seems that NCsoft will be ushering the fairly unsuccessful Tabula Rasa off this mortal coil in a somewhat unorthodox, yet completely awesome fashion. Soon-to-be-retired players won't be popping champagne and mingling during tomorrow's server shut-off festivities -- no, they'll be ...
Tabula Rasa's shutdown salute schedule —
Massively
Listen up, soldiers! We're going to post this once and only once, so I want all eyes and ears on this blog post! Do you get me!? *Waits to hear the chorus of "We get you, sir!" coming from the computer monitor.* We have gotten word from AFS High Command that the Bane are preparing for an all ...
The Reliance of Self... —
Van Hemlock
Tabula Rasa is nearly done, so two birds with one stone today, what with being rather more lazy than usual with the blog posting, and the last in my somewhat presumptuous What TR Did Wrong series, and another in my Many Faces of Van Hemlock one. I'd imagine my own personal tale of Tabula ...
This Is How The World Ends —
Broken Toys
In Tabula Rasa’s case, not with a bang, but with a whine .
It is probably safe to say that, despite decades of ever more spectacular Hollywood visions of extra-terrestial domination, humanity in its worst nightmares never imagined it would have to contend with spawn-camping aliens.
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Going Out With Style —
Zen of Design
Tabula Rasa’s final event is tonight.
We request that all military personnel begin fortifying defenses at every AFS base in preparation for a massive Bane assault. If enemy troop movements are as large as we fear, and the Neph are truly prepared to lead all out war against us, this may ...
Is "Innovation" dying in the MMO genre —
Funcom...riddle me this..
Lets think about this. Where can MMO's go now. How can an MMO be "innovated" past the original mechanics. Tabula Rasa tried with using non skill based shooting. AoC tried with wild swing combat and realtime combo mashers. But, the rest of those games still have kill 10 x quests, go here to get ...
One Shots: Raising a glass —
Massively
Those brave soldiers of the AFS have been battling bravely against the Bane as the final days of Tabula Rasa tick to a close. Where these recruits will head next is anyone's guess, but we're glad to see a Tabula Rasa screenshot showing a little slice of life from the servers before they're ...
Tabula Rasa server merge to affect US servers only —
Massively
We've mentioned in the past that NCsoft plans to merge all four Tabula Rasa servers into one, before the final shutdown on February 28th. Their plan has changed somewhat, as only the three U.S. servers (Pegasus; Orion; Cassiopeia) will be merged into a consolidated server called Hydra. NCsoft ...
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