Tabula Rasa, a post mortem.

[schild]

Uhh, is this like the world first MMO LAST DAY Event or something? I've ever been in one but this sounds quite dramatic.

Not the first, but probably the best.

Wish had goats. I haven't heard about any goats in Tabula Rasa.

[Sunbury]

AC1 did an end-of open beta event back in 1999, but this sounded 100x better.

They had lava in some towns, other towns being attacked by Elementals, but it was pretty static.

[Surlyboi]

Nope, no goats.

Goat helmets, but no goats.

I did find a couple of helmetless shots from about a year ago though, just after I got my spy and sniper to their 30s.

[Ratman_tf]

 

[tmp]

I stumbled on this video and agreed with the point it made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p5_NFQinNc

Carpet bombing thick swarm of 20+ mobs attacking human base, followed with lighting strikes and then gunning down whoever was still standing with a minigun ... that did have its merits.

as had the close quarters shotgun porn, with the stuff sent flying left, right and centre.

[Surlyboi]

Don't forget the ice weapon crit that turned dead mobs into snowmen. 

[Azazel]

I stumbled on this video and agreed with the point it made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p5_NFQinNc

Watching that





slowly paced





video





was a






fucking grind






in itself.







Also:

Anyone wasting their time posting "oh, it could have been fun" in this thread while failing to play it in its final two days, is even more frustrating to me than the fact they amped up the fun just before shutdown. You're all posting impressions of a game that ended a couple of weeks ago when they cranked up the speed.

You seem to be missing a rather large point. MMO in it's final death throes "hay guysz we removed sum of teh suck for teh lat 2 weekz!" doesn't really mean much, especially in MMO-terms. "oh, it could have been fun" might apply pretty well to the game that actually was people's experiences, not the "out with a bang" final couple of weeks or days.

 
Perhaps they should have done that shit (much) earlier and might not have had to turn out the lights?

[Sheepherder]

Looks like UT 2004...


With a subscription fee...


And a cockblocking grind...


Fuck that.

[Tale]

Also:

Anyone wasting their time posting "oh, it could have been fun" in this thread while failing to play it in its final two days, is even more frustrating to me than the fact they amped up the fun just before shutdown. You're all posting impressions of a game that ended a couple of weeks ago when they cranked up the speed.

You seem to be missing a rather large point. MMO in it's final death throes "hay guysz we removed sum of teh suck for teh lat 2 weekz!" doesn't really mean much, especially in MMO-terms. "oh, it could have been fun" might apply pretty well to the game that actually was people's experiences, not the "out with a bang" final couple of weeks or days.

 
Perhaps they should have done that shit (much) earlier and might not have had to turn out the lights?

Did you miss the words "is even more frustrating to me than"?

That's how I said what you said.

[Tale]

Looks like UT 2004...


With a subscription fee...


And a cockblocking grind...


Fuck that.

 

It's dead and you're beating it. What a fucking hero.

[KallDrexx]

Man that non-grindy video made me miss TR :(

I wish it didn't come out right before I got laid off so I could have played it more (before they did the retarded health update).

[Azazel]

Did you miss the words "is even more frustrating to me than"?
That's how I said what you said.

ok.

I can't see how people saying "the shit just aint that good when I played it" would be more frustrating then the game getting the best update evar once the devs had the death watch going though.
Imagine if that happened to/when that happens to Warhammer. Too little, too fucking late, foolish devs.

It's dead and you're beating it. What a fucking hero.

You seem a little protective of the memory of the game. It's a fucking game, It's dead. It's also what we do here, in case you haven't been reading for the last howevermany years.
The whole thread is  , even the posts before they turned out the lights.

[Ratman_tf]

Every game has teh potential. And the list of games that squander that potential is long. Anyone who tried TR and then gave it the bird are totally justified. Although a lot of work went into TR towards the end, it was textbook "too little, too late".

IMHO TR's biggest weakness is that it was a ship without a captain. No one to stick up for the game and steer it during it's post-launch crisis.

[DLRiley]

TR should have started a cash shop to raise funds  .

[Lantyssa]

IMHO TR's biggest weakness is that it was a ship without a captain. No one to stick up for the game and steer it during it's post-launch pre-launch crisis.

FIFY

It had potential.  They screwed it up.  Twice.

This has all happened before.  And it will all happen again.

[Tale]

Imagine if that happened to/when that happens to Warhammer. Too little, too fucking late, foolish devs.

Sorry, can't imagine it. Wasn't dumb enough to buy it.

You seem a little protective of the memory of the game.

Correct. Here is the issue distilled: "but is it fun?". Along with thousands of other players, I was having fun in Tabula Rasa (yes, even before they frustratingly amped up the fun before frustratingly shutting it down). They switched off my fun. All I can do is celebrate the memory of the game and playing forum PvP is the only activity left.

[Ratman_tf]

IMHO TR's biggest weakness is that it was a ship without a captain. No one to stick up for the game and steer it during it's post-launch pre-launch crisis.

FIFY

I suppose. It's hard to pinpoint exactly where in the development history that RG started drifting away. Even a crazy moon man at the helm is preferable to no one at all.

[Rake]

I was testing the game from an early stage and there was no strong sense of direction. They seemed to be almost guessing what to do next.

There were some great ideas but there wasn't a real good plan, so even the good stuff got buried in the final rush to throw the thing out into the hands of the open beta and then the paying public.

They also didn't listen to people they hired to give feedback.

[Murgos]

IMHO TR's biggest weakness is that it was a ship without a captain. No one to stick up for the game and steer it during it's post-launch pre-launch crisis.

FIFY

It had potential.  They screwed it up.  Twice.

This has all happened before.  And it will all happen again.

Three times, don't forget they scrapped it and did a complete redesign a couple of years back.

[tmp]

slowly paced

Out of curiosity, what would be considered regular and fast pace?

[Sir T]

All I'll say on this is that Tab Ras was the least grindy of any game I've played. You leveled up fast and it was goddam fun.

Remember that, Fun?

And thats all that matters.

RIP. You will be missed.

[Ratman_tf]

Arroo?

http://www.xfire.com/games/tr/Tabula_Rasa/

I see people playing after the shutdown?

[Rendakor]

Maybe even bad games have private servers.

[Azazel]

slowly paced

Out of curiosity, what would be considered regular and fast pace?

In a video, you get to the fucking point.

Might have been fun to be the guy playing that video, but to make it watchable, you need to compress your point to make it take up less time, otherwise it's just fucking tedious. Less time between the onscreen text, shorten the whole thing to 1/3 or 1/4 of the time it was running for. It's the same broad reasoning behind why you get people to bunch right up each other way beyond normal personal space limits when you take a group photo.

[Ratman_tf]

Maybe even bad games have private servers.

I did some googling, but came up empty. If there's private servers going on, I'd like to find out about it.

[Tale]

There have been people on TR boards who crank the app up every day to check if they can login, just in case NCSoft switches on a server again. Could that be the source of the xfire count? Simply cranking up the app and trying to log in?

[Merusk]

There have been people on TR boards who crank the app up every day to check if they can login, just in case NCSoft switches on a server again. Could that be the source of the xfire count? Simply cranking up the app and trying to log in?

+

Yes. Xfire counts time the game's EXE is running, not actual game time.  So if you just sit at a login screen for 12h, it's 12h of 'game time.'

[Modern Angel]

There have been people on TR boards who crank the app up every day to check if they can login, just in case NCSoft switches on a server again. Could that be the source of the xfire count? Simply cranking up the app and trying to log in?

That's a hilarious indictment of the MMO subculture.

[schild]

I would not be shocked if there are people that just don't know. Like they've been held hostage in Nam for 30 years.

[Ratman_tf]

I would not be shocked if there are people that just don't know. Like they've been held hostage in Nam for 30 years.

The running joke in general chat during the free leadup to shutdown was "OMG! This gaem is bein shut downs?"

[UnSub]

There have been people on TR boards who crank the app up every day to check if they can login, just in case NCSoft switches on a server again. Could that be the source of the xfire count? Simply cranking up the app and trying to log in?

That's a hilarious indictment of the MMO subculture.

I've got my Gods and Heroes shortcut just waiting on my desktop for the day they launch. 

[Falwell]

Ladies and gentlemen, it gets better...

Richard Garriott Suing NCSoft for 24 Million:

Late last year, Ultima creator Richard Garriott split from NCsoft, the developers and publishers behind his latest game, Tabula Rasa. Sounds like the split wasn't exactly amicable.

While at the time it sounded like Garriott had - fresh from his trip into space - simply walked away for a new challenge outside of games development, court documents have surfaced today showing that Garriott is suing NCsoft for a whopping $24 million.

The suit was filed in the Texas Western District Court earlier today, with Garriott, the plaintiff, accusing NCsoft of fraud. We've contacted both NCsoft and the court for further information, and will update when we hear more.

http://kotaku.com/5241911/richard-garriott-suing-ncsoft-for-24000000?skyline=true&s=x

[Trippy]

Don't know the details so maybe he has a legitimate complaint but given how much of NCsoft's money he flushed down the toliet I wouldn't be surprised if they counter-sue him.

[Surlyboi]

Feh, who gives a fuck. Won't bring TR back.

[FatuousTwat]

Gotta make back that space money somehow.