As Tabula Rasa approaches its end days, the anger, sadness and I-told-you-so sentiments are rising up more than ever. This week marks an interesting occasion where two former NCsoft employees each wrote detailed stories on their own perspectives regarding the sci-fi MMO's downward spiral.
Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.
I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.
GamesRadar - You probably think online worlds shut down because no one's playing. Actually that's rarely true. Often, when servers finally wink out, there's a thriving community patiently waiting for the end and making sad faces at the sky. Most recently it was PlayStation Home, a game that no-one apparently played but which still managed to have millions of inhabitants waiting out their own personal apocalypse on the last day.
MMO-Play gathered a list of the most disappointing MMO's in the history of gaming.
It's a shame there wasn't much info as to why Garriot left and his stake in the game afterwards, and it is strange how TR could simply fail. But I suppose, like the blogger Scott: that TR was just released in a time it wasn't needed and it took too long to get out. I guess if TR got released a couple years ago it would've probably lifted off where it had more of a chance.
On the plus side, NCSoft did try to reach for the stars by trying to incorporate US and Korea players. That's for true. I can only surmise that it would take the strength of mountains to get Koreans off of Starcraft and on something else.