Tabula Rasa Goes Free a Month Early

Posted by | December 23, 2008

We’ve mentioned before that the MMO Tabula Rasa would be going free for a while before closing its doors, but the folks over at NCsoft surprised up by laying out the red carpet a month early. Right now, yes, now, Tabula Rasa is free to play for anyone who can sign up with a PlayNC account. They’ve also poured in a swirling soup of new content to sample, because really, there’s no sense in holding anything back, is there?

Tabula Rasa is a strange combination of First-Person Shooter and MMO Role-Playing Game that plays out something like Halo with leveling and a total lack of fresh ideas. The game failed to open big thanks to its rather generic nature and technical problems, not to mention certain MMORPG elephants in the room that blocked out any chance the market might have had to discover the game.

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Tabula Rasa Eats a Sci-Fi Shotgun

Posted by | November 22, 2008

Just recently, NCsoft announced that their sci-fi shooter MMO, Tabula Rasa will be getting the axe at the end of February, thanks to slow sales and general suckitude. Tabula Rasa is a sort of MMO version of Quake, where players fight against an alien enemy for control over vital resources and strategic positions on a war-torn world. The game was praised for its unique combat system, which combined character-based dice-rolling with player skill in accurate targeting, an approach which worked well to counter the lag and slow response times common to MMOs. However, technical problems like memory leaks, random crashes, and a total lack of anything actually fun to do hurt the game during its release.

While several patches have come through since then, including a number of new content releases that added the necessary standards of an Auction House and crafting system, the damage had been done. …

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