Tabula Rasa News
Tabula Rasa is now free to play until the termination of the game on the 28th of February 2009.
Tabula Rasa is a prime example of the harsh reality surrounding the MMORPG genre. Over-saturation is becoming a serious problem, as games bearing monthly subscriptions do not enjoy a breadth of patrons as readily as normal games do. NCSoft's stumble here should be a warning to would-be MMO creators: even with some good ideas, it doesn't take much for one of these expensive projects to fail.
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Another one bites the dust: this time around, it is Richard Garriott's MMORPG Tabula Rasa. The science fiction themed, action-intensive MMORPG is closing its spaceports on Febuary 28th, 2009 (Earth time.)
"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," stated a letter on the game's website.
It's the same old story: millions of dollars spent on producing a MMORPG. Gamers have impossibly high expectations for levels of content that will be available at launch, thanks to WoW. Developers make promises to pique gamers' interest. Developers do not follow through on promises. Game is launched with tons of bugs. Tons of people play the game in the first month, because they think it'll be different than other games. People find out it the MMORPG is just like any other MMORPG besides a few small changes. MMORPG dies in about a year's time. Another five MMORPGs take its place. Its the MMORPG developing blues.
Richard Garriott was in space and could not be reached for comment.