Is Tabula Rasa any good?

[ShadowFold]

Im gonna get a game tomorrow with my friend and I think Tabula Rasa looks pretty good. I cant seem to find a trial for it anywhere tho.. Has anyone played it? I really want to get back into an MMO with him but WoW kinda sucks now and Hellgate just gets boring after awile.. Thanks

 

[Kursah]

I played the beta last summer and it was fun...very sci-fi, weapons upgradable, armor, technology stuff...the story is pretty cool. I never did purchase it though as I am not in an MMO kind of mood lately...but if I do get a hinkering for MMO I would give this game a shot. It was definately entertaining...don't expect it to be the best ever made...but it's pretty cool none-the-less.

 

[Darknova]

BETA was fun...but I always lose interest in MMOs so I never bought it.

 

[ShadowFold]

Oh nice you actually played it Is it action packed? I heard there are like wars and stuff to fight in which sounds like my kinda game

 

[Kursah]

Yeah...the controls and such are kind of different at first...but it does keep the action going. To me it was kind of like Guild Wars 1.5 with guns and sci-fi and slightly different camera angles, better graphics & effects (has some nice eyecandy), and the battles can get pretty intense.

Have you read any reviews on it yet? If not you may wanna check some out...like I said it's not a genre defining gaming...but it's pretty cool in the end. If there's a demo/trial period for it that's what I'd recommend you do...I haven't really looked into it much since the beta because I got back into FPS gaming and have been primarily doing COD4, STALKER since then.

 

[Azazel]

iv heard that the game isn't that good, it dose not have enough content...burns out too quick

 

[Azazel]

NCSoft's chief financial officer, Lee Jae-ho, has told The Korean Times that Tabula Rasa has proven to be a financial disaster.

Featuring heavy involvement from Richard Garriott, the sci-fi MMO was supposed to rattle the genre and take it to the next evolutionary step courtesy of the game's real-time combat and battlefield strategy. But it's gone down like a cup of cold sick.

As a result, NCSoft Austin - the company's arm responsible for the game - is being downsized, Lee explained, "We are going to revamp our Austin development organization."

Apparently Tabula Rasa made around £2.7 million (or five billion won) in revenue last year, and NCSoft then projected that it'd make around £8 million (15 billion won) this year. That's nowhere near enough cash though. It's estimated the game's cost NCSoft over £54 million to date.

"Half a year ago I communicated with investors and analysts we had very high expectations for Tabula Rasa", Lee continued. "After six months, I just put down 15 billion won as an annual revenue target and that's very disappointing. But I should admit that the actual result of Tabula Rasa has been disappointing.

"If you talk about our development cost we spent in the past several years, probably we are not making any money from this Tabula Rasa project. That should be the reality."

It's not confirmed how many staff at NCSoft Austin will get the boot, but the Austin studio will retain a workforce large enough to continue to support Tabula Rasa and will continue to develop other projects as well.

Richard Garriott will still be working on the MMO too, in between training to become a space tourist.


game is not doing to well...they are downsizing

 

[ShadowFold]

Oh well it looks really fun so im gonna get it but just to make sure its not gonna get closed any time soon right? My friend really wants to get it now too.

 

[Azazel]

it wont close down, just not doing aswell as they wanted, kinda the same story as vanguard, they spent allot of money on the game, and they just didn't pull it off well, but iv heard that they are going to add allot of new staff to the game via patches, just going to take a while...the game is not bad...just not allot to do

 

[ShadowFold]

Alright sounds good.. I will tell you guys how it is once I order a couple copys from newegg.