NCSoft announced today that it will be closing down Tabula Rasa on February 28th. The sci-fi shooter-flavored MMO struggled for quite some time, despite recent attempts to draw in new players by announcements of new features, price reductions, and using Richard Garriott's trip into space as a promotion. We discussed Garriott's departure from NCSoft a couple weeks ago. This is NCSoft's second failed MMO, and apparently layoffs are in the works. They seem to be making an effort to make the game's last few months as fun as they can for their remaining players, though. "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."
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I remember beta testing this game. Was almost considering buying it and finishing it. I thought it was surprisingly well put together. Had a couple of bugs at the beginning of the beta, but near the end I found it almost flawless. Guess the general population disagreed. Oh yea, it did lack things to do once you've finished btw, that and the servers were almost always empty... Anyways, sucks that it has to go.