SF MMORPG shutting down for good on Feb. 28th, 2009
And 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.
Not a big surprise, I suppose. 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.
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Also it's spelt Tabula Rasa not Tabla
as for the game..... guess thats where the saying "only the fittest will survive" comes into play!
Tabula Rasa was based on his claim to change the genre and take it forward like he did in Ultima, unfortunately he sucked up all the cash that NCSoft had and bailed with a cheap product for everyone to try and figure out like maybe it was too complex for them to understand but in the end they only realized they had been played.
Using WoW in this is pretty pointless though, people didn't get into it with the idea that it was going to be WoW2, they got into it thinking Garriott was going to make another glory day Ultima Online title for the masses and return old methods of MMO gaming.