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NCSoft Closing Tabula Rasa

I beta tested NCSoft’s MMO Tabula Rasa, and I thought at the time that it was mostly hype.  I didn’t have a great experience playing it, thought it was quite boring.

Evidently so did the rest of the world.

David Swofford: We had to weigh Tabula Rasa against everything else that was out there. From our standpoint it was strictly a call … it wasn’t as successful as we needed it to be. We had to take this position

Buhbye.  Another MMO eats it.

This time I don’t think it was buggy gameplay or bad mechanics.  I just think the game wasn’t as much fun as some of the other mmo offerings out there.

NCSoft of course is about the bottom line, and Tabula Rasa’s bottom line was it was losing money consistently.