General Discussion

Starr Long, the Producer of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa has written an article detailing the current state of Tabula Rasa. In the article he discusses NCsoft's commitment to the game, where the game is now and their future development plans, as well as Richard Garriott's current involvement, rumored layoffs and financial issues.

Starr Long, the Producer of Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa, updates us on the state of the game, as well as moving forward to the exciting things to come.

In the last few weeks there’s been talk about the future of Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa, the financial impact of the game on NCsoft as a whole, and the state of our development team here in Austin. I think it’s important to clarify what is going on and what our players can look forward to in the near future, because there is a lot to look forward to.

NCsoft has committed a lot of money and resources into continuing post-launch development of Tabula Rasa. We have been putting new content into the game every few weeks, and we will continue doing just that. We have already added more upper level content and new features like Hybrids, and we’re working on tons of exciting content, such as Personal Armor Units (mechs and mini-vehicles that players can use and will grant them new abilities). Other features we are planning include Command Opportunity, where players will get the ability to summon entire squads of upgradeable NPCs to fight for them. Clans will be able to battle over control points, which we are building specifically for clan versus clan gameplay. Another addition we’re working on is Flashpoints, which are missions that start dynamically in a region for a number of players, whenever certain criteria are met.

Read more here.

I am actually tempted by this game and wish they would offer a free trial for a week or 2 the way other MMOs do. TR's 3-day free trial didn't seem worth the downloading effort, in my opinion, so I didn't bother with it.

TR sounds like a pretty good game, but I am not sure it is worth paying a subscription fee to play, based on what I have read. If NCSoft ever comes up with a more generous free trial period and/or a more economical subscription plan (say, a CoX/TR "package deal" or something along those lines), I would probably give it a try.

I just can't play a game designed by someone named "Starr" 

But it does sound like NCSoft remains committed to improving the game, just a matter of seeing if they can capture momentum again, especially in light of the upcoming major releases this year.

Maybe I'd play it if they dropped the RG off the front of the name?

Originally posted by tmr819

I am actually tempted by this game and wish they would offer a free trial for a week or 2 the way other MMOs do. TR's 3-day free trial didn't seem worth the downloading effort, in my opinion, so I didn't bother with it.

TR sounds like a pretty good game, but I am not sure it is worth paying a subscription fee to play, based on what I have read. If NCSoft ever comes up with a more generous free trial period and/or a more economical subscription plan (say, a CoX/TR "package deal" or something along those lines), I would probably give it a try.

I agree I would love to give this game a good go around, but i dont think 3 days is enough time ... I am hoping they offer a 2 week trial soon. I am dying for a good sci fi game.

Guys I found this game to be an absolute blast...for about a month.

With that in mind if you have the money, go for the 3 day trial and play.  You'll know in 3 days if you really like it and will stick with it.

If you last a month like me, that is one month closer to the games I think most of us are waiting on...which is a good thing!

TR was great fun when I started playing it.  It doesn't have much lasting power, but the game is a blast when you first start.  It is VERY solo friendly regardless of the direction you choose w/ your character and if you like grouping that makes instances much much more friendly.

Just my 2 cents, for what they are worth.

It's sad to say but TR will go the way of Auto Assault by next year. There just isn’t that much interest....The game cost a shit load of money to make and  is basically the same handful of missions over and over again.

This is RG's Diakatana make no mistake, if it wasn't for the Koreans worship of the man the plug would have already been pulled.

Originally posted by todeswulf

It's sad to say but TR will go the way of Auto Assault by next year. There just isn’t that much interest....The game cost a shit load of money to make and  is basically the same handful of missions over and over again.

This is RG's Diakatana make no mistake, if it wasn't for the Koreans worship of the man the plug would have already been pulled.

As someone who played and now miss auto assault this statement just makes me want to play the game.  Auto assault did get repetitive, but at least it was a nice break-up of the onslaught of cookie-cutter mmos out there.  Forget hitting something with a sword or shooting it with a dinky pistol or bow and arrow, something's in your way, just  ram it with your car!  Boo-yah.  Senseless car violence and complete terrain destruction for the win ^^

Just my 2cents.

I just have one question. It seems like (from what everyone is saying) that this game is loosing steam, as in loosing subscriptions, the whole ball of wax. Is this true? I was really thinking about giving this game a go, but with dwindling numbers, I'm not.

I absolutely loved Auto Assault.  I hated to see it go.  Human Engineer = God on wheels.

That game was so far before it's time...

I salute you for bringing it up again.  I'll miss it and hope that somebody out there will realize what a good idea it was and take more of the same idea into account on an MMO in the future.