Well, I’ve made several posts that have been semi-related to Tabula Rasa, the action-oriented space MMO.  Now we hear this week that NCsoft is shutting it down in February 2009.  WoW claims another victim?

I wanted to like Tabula Rasa.  Probably something to do with Richard Garriott being involved.  I was in the beta for Ultima Online and played it for years.  I watched Ultima Worlds Online: Origin (a.k.a. Ultima Online 2) and Ultima X: Odyssey come and go.  About a thrid of the developers that worked on UWO:O went to Destination Games to work on Tabula Rasa.  So I watched it with great interest and signed up for the beta.  And when I played the beta, I thought the game in general was rather boring.  Apparently I was not alone.

Coincidence that Richard Garriott bailed on the MMO bearing his name just days before the announcement that it was going to be shut down?  I think not.