NCSoft announced today that it will be
closing down Tabula Rasa on February 28th. The sci-fi shooter-flavored MMO struggled for quite some time, despite recent attempts to draw in new players by announcements of
new features,
price reductions, and using Richard Garriott's
trip into space as a promotion. We discussed
Garriott's departure from NCSoft a couple weeks ago. This is NCSoft's second failed MMO, and apparently
layoffs are in the works. They seem to be making an effort to make the game's last few months as fun as they can for their remaining players, though. "Before we end the service, we'll make
Tabula Rasa servers free to play starting on January 10, 2009. We can assure you that through the next couple of months we'll be doing some really fun things in
Tabula Rasa, and we plan to make staying on a little longer worth your while."