Jeff Hollis talks Tabula Rasa and Darkfall this week:
"The big story this week has to be the slow, lingering death of Tabula Rasa. The servers were officially turned off at midnight on February 28, just a couple of days ago, and it was a sad moment. TR held such promise – it was to be the first great sci-fi MMO, designed by the father of the genre, Richard Garriott."
Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.
I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.
GamesRadar - You probably think online worlds shut down because no one's playing. Actually that's rarely true. Often, when servers finally wink out, there's a thriving community patiently waiting for the end and making sad faces at the sky. Most recently it was PlayStation Home, a game that no-one apparently played but which still managed to have millions of inhabitants waiting out their own personal apocalypse on the last day.
Aventurine Studios published their tentative patch notes for their upcoming update for Darkfall: Unholy Wars. The new patch makes some major changes to combat, the tweaks to the combat system were largely based on player feedback.
I do so love these roundups.
Shame about Tabula Rasa,it's got a pretty strong community.
Another hilarious MMO Weekly, good job :)
The model needs to watch where she is going :lol:
It's a shame about Tabula Rasa, but at least it's Jeff that's delivering the news!