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• • Tabula Rasa Revisited: Impressed

  • Fungistratus:  Thank you for your post.  It is a breath of fresh air to read of someone who played the game in an earlier incarnation noticing and appreciating the improvements to the game since launch.

    Chryses:  I concur with others here who found your post most encouraging and well done, and I welcome your being a realist who takes a game and enjoys it for what it has.  Myself I rushed my main character to 50, per se (3 months), but I say rushed because I did not do ToOs to get there and instead leveled almost entirely on CP from 20-50. 

     

    End game at this point is helping others.  I usually go help someone with an instance as that's just a good natured thing to do in supporting Tabula Rasa and encouraging good community.  I love the game though it has changed in drastic ways that I do not find encouraging to my playstyle (so I am having to adapt ^^) and to me the developers need to separate bug fixes from the class changes so we do not wait so long for the bug fixes.
    

    Ikavadas:  Soldier I need to know how you can do what you are doing to Tabula Rasa when you know this will not help gaming overall.  In fact I find it absolutely appauling that you and many other betas find a need to disparage any game you are bored or otherwise disappointed with.  Hear me out this is constructive criticism.

    Betas get an opportunity to play before most others and they also tend to be a clique, many coming into the beta circle need referral from another beta player which forms a commradery, a bond.  So I am asking, please do not abuse that privilege, any of you.

    At this point betas you participated and gave input, you did your job.  The company made promises on that basis of course, but promises do not always pan out and your history as beta players yields this as true game after game.

    What it appears many of you betas have forgotten is that you are a gamer first not an employee, even if only by appearance or how the entire situation characterized via the legal agreements and the way the developers appeared to regard you (and how that all played out in your head).  The reason for the beta, and even alpha, privilege is so the company can get firsthand reaction from a gamer.  You are one of us and as one of us we hope you'll encourage gaming from the many possible ways that people game and not from a linear idea of what games must have or need as though all gaming revolves around the beta's ideas in a vacuum.  I say this because your disappointment is more regarding suggestions made and appearing to have fallen on deaf ears than on promises broken since that's the normal course of every game as it evolves passed the beta players and you as a beta player know this.

    Ikavads there is accuracy to what you've said however this accuracy doesn't mean the developers or anyone else at NCSoft made an error, nor that Tabula Rasa is "crap."  However it does mean they, like so many other games, are likely not "bending over" (for lack of a better phrase) for the betas or the rest of the player base, as no other game has either (UO, SWG, AO, even EQ has this gripe from some part of the ex-player base).

    Point being Ikavadas that if you and the rest of the betas who've spoken up at a variety of sites feel so strongly about Tabula Rasa and/or any other game developers not being responsive to the gaming market time and time again then disparaging those games on fansites will not change this situation in the slightest and only hurts gaming as a whole.

    I'd strongly suggest you and your friends consider why the companies treat people in this manner and I believe your collective minds will come up with a solution that you can instead seek to promote using your beta resume as a credential, something that benefits the entire online subscription consumer market.
    
    Otherwise please, just enjoy whatever game you've moved on to, the rest of us would like to appreciate what we do about whatever game we play for whatever reasons we choose since our interest is gaming and these actions of ours promote that interest which benefits all gamers and gaming more than any griping about any game ever will.

    Ikavadas I do hope you consider what I have said for its candor, that you understand and appreciate that gaming as an industry suffers every time a member of the beta tester "cartel" speaks out negatively of any game on a fansite.  I do wish you luck with whatever you are playing today.

    Cheers.

     

    P.S.  I am not suggesting a ultrapositive position or to ignore issues with the game, however escalating them to the point I have seen from betas of a more personal emotional lashing out at the game helps no one, no matter what game it is.  I do know you guys wouldn't be this effected by it if not for your expectations and emotional immersion in the game at the time you honestly loved it.

     

     

  • Posted: 5/26/08 10:24 AM
    Tabula Rasa