A Tribute to Tabula Rasa
- Thread starter Lydon
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I hate to see the games that dare to be different shut down. Sigh.
Magnarmalok
The Resident Young'un
lold
I still have like 5 ads of it in my ncsoft booklets :/
I still have like 5 ads of it in my ncsoft booklets :/
omg wtf ohnoes 
Lydon
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The original Tabula Rasa was nothing like the Tabula Rasa that was released. It had a more Asian-style to it. It was even shown off at an E3 event. Then Richard, being the genius he is, decided to scrap Tabula Rasa in that form and change it into what was released.
Now what was released wasn't bad at all, but the problem is that scrapping the original so late in development meant that the costs to develop the game ended up being 1 billion Won ($100 million). The game simply wasn't making money fast enough to cover the development costs to justify NCsoft's continued support of it. If it hadn't cost so much to make, NCsoft would probably have kept it going.
Now what was released wasn't bad at all, but the problem is that scrapping the original so late in development meant that the costs to develop the game ended up being 1 billion Won ($100 million). The game simply wasn't making money fast enough to cover the development costs to justify NCsoft's continued support of it. If it hadn't cost so much to make, NCsoft would probably have kept it going.
lilDeath
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Ye, PLUS, Richard Garriot became a Space Monkey (6th space tourist apparently), so he left TR for 'other interests' and shortly thereafter the shutdown announcement was made by the devs.
I wonder if he took all the DNA samples (time capsule) with him when he went into space? It was a thing that they did last year where people got DNA kits to supply some DNA samples, like saliva rubs, etc and post it back to them to go up into space with him in a capsule.
I wonder if he took all the DNA samples (time capsule) with him when he went into space? It was a thing that they did last year where people got DNA kits to supply some DNA samples, like saliva rubs, etc and post it back to them to go up into space with him in a capsule.
