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• • Tabula Rasa is closing.NCSOFT annoucement

  •  * Aion beta access (coming soon)
    * Aion pre-order access (available in 2009)
    * 1 free month of Aion including digital client (available in 2009)

     

    Dear NCsoft. I HATE YOU SO MUCH! *didn't have an active account*

  • Posted: 11/21/08 6:49 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • How come EQ II doesn't attract more players?

  • Two bigs reasons, time and requirements. When the game came out, it launched right about when WoW did, and the requirements were a beast and still are to a point. At this point, the game is considered "old" and the lower level areas feel empty without a low level population, so while the mentor system and such helps, not many are going to want to spend so much time leveling through a barren world to play with everyone else left at the top end. This is a problem that many MMOs face in their later years and short of being a sandbox MMO ala UO without levels, I don't see how you can really escape the divide. 

     

    Actually, if devs put new "Starter towns" around the high level areas with each expansion that the high levels can use to restock and do their thing and the newbies can use to level around. Then they might have at least a chance at pulling people in given that while they might not be out with the rest of the population, at least there would be people around to make it feel less empty. 

  • Posted: 11/21/08 6:45 PM
    Everquest II
• • Tabula Rasa is closing.NCSOFT annoucement

  • Originally posted by eldanloco
    

    Richard Garriot just wanted to play space like daddy. He needs to make Ultima Online 2.

    He did, in fact the game was completely finished and EA canned it because they wanted to "focus the playerbase on Ultima Online". So yeah, you can blame EA for that one. UO2 was looking pretty good too. You can still find all the trailers and such online.

     

    And NCsoft is NOT CLOSING. For one, NCsoft East is doing just fine considering they have only been involved with Lineage and Aion is looking to bring in equally impressive numbers for them. NCsoft West on the other hand which has bombed two titles completely now, yeah, they're in trouble and it's been known for a while, but they are essentially the foothold for NCsoft East to get games localized here quickly, and I highly doubt they will let it just close shop, especially with a new major title on the horizon. 

  • Posted: 11/21/08 3:41 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Tabula Rasa is closing.NCSOFT annoucement

  •  I kinda thought this might be coming when the stores started to pull it from the shelves, but as much as I felt TR was a big load of wasted potential, I didn't really want to see it die /=

  • Posted: 11/21/08 3:16 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Vivendi reports Blizzard's first billion-dollar year

  •  A fool and his money...

    and Blizzard found themselves a town of exiled court jesters.

  • Posted: 11/20/08 3:37 AM
    General Discussion