Tabula Rasa

I'm waiting...

waiting for january 10th so i can sign up for my free tabula rasa account. On jan. 10th their making the game free to play and its going to be that way until feb. 28. I think that as many of us as possible should go and play the game. They said " the game never achieved the player population we hoped for". so lets go help them reach it. or atleast get close. Tabula Rasa looks like a cool game and ive watched a friend or two play it. Maybe something will happen, an act of god perhaps?, and theyll save the game and keep its servers online...

SAVE TABULA RASA! it deserves deserves to be saved.

I dont know if u know it.... but they need the people in the game to get enough $$$ to keep the game running .... Free to Play means no $$$.... no matter how much people get into the free period... the game is going down anyway....

Originally posted by Pelu

I dont know if u know it.... but they need the people in the game to get enough $$$ to keep the game running .... Free to Play means no $$$.... no matter how much people get into the free period... the game is going down anyway....

Exactly. By waiting until the 10th to sign up the only message you are sending to NCsoft is that you are only willing to play TR as long as it is free. If they were willing to run the game without making any money off of it they wouldn't be shutting it down in the first place.

Maybe if you went back to the game NOW and started paying a subscription fee that would send a proper message to NCsoft, but I doubt you will find many people willing to join you in such an act.

Originally posted by Raltar

Originally posted by Pelu

I dont know if u know it.... but they need the people in the game to get enough $$$ to keep the game running .... Free to Play means no $$$.... no matter how much people get into the free period... the game is going down anyway....

Exactly. By waiting until the 10th to sign up the only message you are sending to NCsoft is that you are only willing to play TR as long as it is free. If they were willing to run the game without making any money off of it they wouldn't be shutting it down in the first place.

Maybe if you went back to the game NOW and started paying a subscription fee that would send a proper message to NCsoft, but I doubt you will find many people willing to join you in such an act.

why couldnt they lower subscription fees instead?

Originally posted by downtoearth

Originally posted by Raltar

Originally posted by Pelu

I dont know if u know it.... but they need the people in the game to get enough $$$ to keep the game running .... Free to Play means no $$$.... no matter how much people get into the free period... the game is going down anyway....

Exactly. By waiting until the 10th to sign up the only message you are sending to NCsoft is that you are only willing to play TR as long as it is free. If they were willing to run the game without making any money off of it they wouldn't be shutting it down in the first place.

Maybe if you went back to the game NOW and started paying a subscription fee that would send a proper message to NCsoft, but I doubt you will find many people willing to join you in such an act.

 

why couldnt they lower subscription fees instead?

I don't know the specifics, but I would be willing to guess that they are already breaking even/taking a loss as is. I would think that as they stand at the moment, lowering the subscription fee would result in negative returns. I played TR for a bit and I don't know what it was, but it just didn't click.

maybe lord british descends down from his orbit,
buys the game, throws some money at it and revives it as the vision he had

or maybe not...

well ill definitly try the free game phase, i did a 15da< triel once and it didnt seem half bad to me

Originally posted by skeaser

I don't know the specifics, but I would be willing to guess that they are already breaking even/taking a loss as is. I would think that as they stand at the moment, lowering the subscription fee would result in negative returns. I played TR for a bit and I don't know what it was, but it just didn't click.

I don't know what it is costing them to keep the game online at this point. Probably not a lot since they already cut nearly all the staff for the game and there is next to no development being done for it. But I doubt that was the issue.

The money they spent to develop this game in the first place is probably the issue. I forget the exact number (maybe one of the more deatil oriented posters on this forum will care to remind us) but this game cost NCSoft some HUGE sum of money. Something on the order of tens of millions of dollars, a pretty hefty sum of which I would guess went directly into Richard Garriot's pocket. They could double the subscription fee for this game and they would never come close to earning back what the game cost them to develop. No matter what they do at this point they are pretty much going to have to accept that this game kicked their wallet in the balls.

So at this point they probably just want to cut their losses and put this whole disaster out of sight and out of mind as quickly as possible for the sake of their share holders.

Originally posted by Raltar

Originally posted by skeaser

I don't know the specifics, but I would be willing to guess that they are already breaking even/taking a loss as is. I would think that as they stand at the moment, lowering the subscription fee would result in negative returns. I played TR for a bit and I don't know what it was, but it just didn't click.

I don't know what it is costing them to keep the game online at this point. Probably not a lot since they already cut nearly all the staff for the game and there is next to no development being done for it. But I doubt that was the issue.

The money they spent to develop this game in the first place is probably the issue. I forget the exact number (maybe one of the more deatil oriented posters on this forum will care to remind us) but this game cost NCSoft some HUGE sum of money. Something on the order of tens of millions of dollars, a pretty hefty sum of which I would guess went directly into Richard Garriot's pocket. They could double the subscription fee for this game and they would never come close to earning back what the game cost them to develop. No matter what they do at this point they are pretty much going to have to accept that this game kicked their wallet in the balls.

So at this point they probably just want to cut their losses and put this whole disaster out of sight and out of mind as quickly as possible for the sake of their share holders.

No offense, but if the game only cost "tens of millions of dollars", then I would assume from start up cost alone, it would fail or atleast not even be on an even playing field of the current top mmos.

Make it free to play, with item shop, that's how asian mmo thrive..

But they will have to re-design the game abit...