Tabula Rasa Shutting Down

[Raina]

To the Tabula Rasa Community,

Last November we launched what we hoped would be a ground breaking sci-fi MMO. In many ways, we think we've achieved that goal. Tabula Rasa has some unique features that make it fun and very different from every other MMO out there. 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.
So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009.

Before we end the service, we'll make Tabula Rasa servers free to play starting on January 10, 2009.

We can assure you that through the next couple of months we'll be doing some really fun things in Tabula Rasa, and we plan to make staying on a little longer worth your while. For more details about what we are doing for Tabula Rasa players, please click here.

Stay tuned for more information. We thank you for your loyal support of the game and encourage you to take us up on the benefits we're offering Tabula Rasa players.
The Tabula Rasa Team




http://www.rgtr.com/news/latest_news...la_rasa_t.html

[Sybeus]

And so another famed game designer develops a online dud. The Sims Online fails, now Tabula Rasa. Where have the Will Wright's and Richard Garriott's gone wrong?

[Dara]

Hellgate: London's producer (NAMCO BANDAI) recently made an official announcement that that game's developer, Flagship Studios, was folding...and Hellgate's support and MMO service was going poof in a few months. MMO play is now free for everyone until then, so those of us who paid extra for the "lifetime" subscription get lemon juice squeezed onto our papercuts. >_<

Seems to be getting riskier and riskier to invest time and energy into new MMO's...I suppose that's one of the reasons I'm still into WoW, I know it's not going anywhere for awhile. That, and it's a much better game now than it was when it started...despite the fact that they've screwed up their own lore so much you wonder why they're even still trying to ducttape it.