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First General British leaves NCSoft and now Tabula Rasa is going to be shutting down as well. NCSoft has made a post stating that the game will be turned off on February 28th, 2009. For those that want to play, it`ll be free starting January 10th, 2009 so you get a month and change of free play if you want to try it out. I remember Richard Garriot talking about this venture many, many moons ago at E3 and it`s sad to see it didn`t have the success that we thought it would. It was a long time coming and a short time here.
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Survival of the fittest. I can't even 100% put my finger on why I didn't fall in love with Tabula Rasa. It seemed like it was doing a lot of things right. But the world still felt so unconvincing. I mean, I know that fantasy and sci-fi make frequent bed partners, but I just wasn't feeling the chemistry in this case.
There were a few standout features, sure. But you really had to focus on them at the expense of everything else -- and you had to focus on a few, tiny technical achievements in order to defeat this overwhelming sense of apathy about Tabula Rasa's people and places.
Yeah, I'm sorry to see it shut down too. But I didn't grow up with the Ultima games, so Richard Garriott's name on a box means little to me personally. And Tabula Rasa just isn't a compelling enough creation to even have me go back in January to play it for free. There are currently too many other boldly fleshed out MMOs that shame Tabula Rasa.
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Meh I played the beta and demo and simply could not get into it. I thought the controls sucked and it simply felt like too much effort to play it.
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