By the time it shut down, Tabula Rasa had a small but very dedicated community, and when NCSoft did announce that the servers would be coming down fans were enraged twofold. First for the simple fact that the game had launched in a rather poor state and the fan perception that NCSoft didn’t do a whole lot to save the title, and secondly when Richard Garriot sued the publisher (and won) for $32 million alleging that NCSoft fired Garriot, forging his letter of resignation to defraud him of stock options, and did all of this while he was in decontamination in Russia following his trip into space.
Much like our friends over at City of Heroes, the Tabula Rasa fans are yet another group of embittered fans who once called themselves NCSoft’s customers, and they are not going to let a game they enjoy go down with a whimper. A petition on gopetition.com is asking for ten thousand signatures to send over to NCSoft to bring back Tabula Rasa.
The petition is a nice touch, but we don’t see the endeavor going far. After all, we are talking about NCSoft, a company not known for its willingness to change course once the shutdown notice is given, and one which apparently would rather see its games rot in a digital warehouse than sell it off to a willing buyer. Second, the petition seems to assume that Richard Garriot was part of the game shutting down, which couldn’t be further from the truth. That being said, Garriot and NCSoft did not exactly part on a good note (see the above lawsuit), so any chance of the two getting together to revive Tabula Rasa is most likely slim.
There’s something to be said about horses and turnips here, but for the life of me I don’t know what it is.
(Source: Gopetition)
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