NC firing ppl, Tabula Rasa stops

Can it be true? Tabula Rasa will shut down on February 28, 2009. Before it does, however, the game will become free starting on January 10th. Reason is the low player population. And it is true, I checked.

It is only recently, that in an open letter on the Tabula Rasa web site, the game creator Richard Garriott has announced his separation with NCSoft, the company he partnered with to develop and publish Tabula Rasa.

It will be interesting to see if the Austin branch of the Korean headquartered company will continue to exist considering it was opened to work specifically with Garriott.

NCSoft is going to lay off an undisclosed amount of their employees, too. Their spokesman, David Swofford said, "We're going to be scaling down. We currently don't know how many people will be affected by that."

How will this affect L2 players??

Some (few though) players are expected to migrate from Tabula Rasa, especially given the free time that NC will offer them as a retribution. More importantly though, less NCSoft stuff (especially in Austin), might mean less communication between the players and the (korean) game developers.