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• • "Once" chance to save humanity

  • Do companies make the ad banner for this site or is the website owners(market dept.) building the ads?

    Was the text added over the banner already in possession of mmorpg.com, or simply sent with a typo from TR marketing dept?

    I mean if you're going to shoot down a plane in flight make sure it's the right one no?

  • Posted: 8/18/08 5:48 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Do you like TR? How often do you play?

  • I play between 1-2 hours at most sometimes I can be 2-4 days w/o playing.I play other MMO's and offline games.I keep this one because it's a game for casual gamer, fits the bill as a "part time" game.

    
    

     

     

  • Posted: 7/20/08 1:20 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • How is this game NOW?

  • Originally posted by Duilyon
    

    I think the MMO community will play a GOOD Sci-fi MMO. Just look at EVE online! They have a thriving community because it is a quality game with a good amount of content and creativity. Even if its a rather complicated game it still gets a lot of subscriptions.

     

    If tabula rasa actually got good updates that would actually add some content then this game would be just as big as SWG. It would probably still be a niche game but the population would be that of DDOs and such. Which isn't bad by any means.

     

    So its not the fact that its a Sci-fi game its the fact that it lacks content and polish.

     

    While you have some good points there, you're missing a few facts.

    Eve population was disastrously low during the first 2 years of existence, and then it exploded to the level we know today.I know I had 3 accounts from day 1, sold my last one last week.

    That said EVE had just about no content in terms of quests/missions or npc's, NPC were basically the same ships player flew cept for stats and few cosmetics.

    The game was riddled with bugs and bad support during the first year, you could make your opponent (network)lag so much,that you could destroy his ship, pod the guy and then loot his ship, before he could even finish loading the zone.

    Since then they added cloaking zoning, fixed cops, added tons of ships, modified the weapon system, basically after two years they got it right with the help of thousands of paying beta players...

    I guess people tend to forget big players like Blizzard and WoW, does anyone remember how it was back then?The first year of WoW?Empty zones, not even one friggin NPC, PvP instances, siege, hero class didn't even existed, although it was promised.

    Give an mmo at least a year or two before dragging it into the mud.

    TR has a strong combat system, tons of missions, few bugs, now they need to fix the game so people like it.Add more fun stuff to do, high end grinding, better PvP, I dunno maybe unlock a new zone or raise lvl cap.

  • Posted: 7/19/08 10:40 AM
    Tabula Rasa
• • How many players in Tabula Rasa

  • Thinking in the same direction Raltar I think TR has an identity crisis, where it wants to be fast, action packed, and other side you have devs trying to implement stuff for the long run and trying to build a grinder (end game) on top of it.

    Maybe they just need to throw in new maps and mission raise the lvl cap by 10 once a year.

    the game is too fast for the dev team.

    Auto Assault suffered the same sickness, very fast, boss kill within seconds, just rush in do your stuff.Get to high lvl easily and quickly.The way to get there is fun once on top you're just waiting/wishing for some more fast and furious things to do.

  • Posted: 7/17/08 8:02 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • How many players in Tabula Rasa

  • Originally posted by Raltar
    

    Originally posted by Mixie
    

    Dunno i play at the EU server and its have always been on medium when i logged in, i always see players and had never found it hard to find groups. I have no clue aboute the other servers though.  When ppl here say is dying or dead they havent logged in. The general chat is always talking so no its not low pop , its not high its just medium.

    And ppl that not play, its not helping that your spreading false statment that its dead. Im not going to lie and say its high pop and you shouldent say its low when its infact medium.

    
     

    Back when I played Tabula Rasa the server populations were ALWAYS low. This was when people were first starting to abandon the game.

    Then one day when I tried to log in I had to download a patch. It was a very small patch, must have taken me less than a minute to download and install if I recall correctly. After downloading that patch when I got to the server screen suddenly all the server populations were medium for the first time in weeks!

    Did Tabula Rasa suddenly get double the number of players overnight? Or did that patch I downloaded that day simply reduce the number of people required to be online to qualify as "medium" server population? I wouldn't be suprised if the Devs have had to lower the bar several times to maintain their supposedly "medium" population...

    As for the general chat, it was always pretty active when I played. But from what I recall the discussions which took place in general chat were the punch line of every Tabula Rasa joke ever told. Most people used the general chat to argue about penis size, make racist remarks or just spam random non-sense. I remember one night when myself and another member of my guild were so bored out of our minds (because there was NOTHING to do in Tabula Rasa) that we just sat and watched the general chat spam for hours. Some other guild called "Black people do work" was trolling the chat for something like 3+ hours that night. They got banned eventually, but they were all trial accounts anyway so they probably didn't care. That was also the same night a lot of people discovered they didn't get the black armor dye that NCsoft had promised to people who helped out on the test server, so there was a lot of spamming going on about that too. One troll managed to start a huge debate about if wearing black armor made you an emo or not just by saying "Black=EMO!" over and over...

    I think the evidence speaks for itself. The links people posted in this thread to MMOG charts and the NCsoft quarterly report pretty much say it all. I perticularly liked the "Earnings Hihglights" section where they had a bunch of pie charts. One chart showed Tabula Rasa with only 2% of the total pie! This was compared to Guild Wars with 12%, City of Heroes with 7% and almost the enitre rest of the pie consumed by Lineage and Lineage II. The only part of the pie smaller than Tabula Rasa was "other" with 1%. I'm not even sure what "other" would be in this case. Maybe their free games like Exteel and Dungeon Runners? If thats true, then Tabula Rasa is only 1% better than games which don't even earn any money!

    

    While I see where you come from with this, I don't think Destination's devs needed to create a "patch" to change the server load readout, this could have easily been done server side.To put it bluntly I reject the conspiracy theory

    Annual earnings? quaterly?Profit?Revenue?Revenue per account?Revenue from projection?Net earnings?Gross income?1% of nothing?1% of the biggest mmo publisher?

    Please don't stare at pies, just eat them!

    http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51312

    "The November release of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa (PC) recorded $5.4 million in sales, representing only 6% of total earnings for the calendar year."

    This article is not even clear picking up facts here and there and gluing them together.Total sales of what?Retail box?To distirbutors?End point sales projections?Including monthly payments?Time cards?

    Unless you're a market analyst with data in hand, the only thing we could do is pick up "Internet" blogs, post and news from confirmed/unconfirmed sources, tidbits or translated lines from website that don't even need to validate the information at hand, and then make our forum headline or quote and bash or praise a product that doesn't even get us earnings nor appreciation...

  • Posted: 7/16/08 7:57 PM
    Tabula Rasa