Tabula Rasa - Re-review @ Eurogamer

[woges]

Eurogamer seem to like doing re-reviews since they opened up the MMO portion of their site. This time Tabula Rasa gets 7/10.

Yet it's also, by many accounts, a commercial disaster. Server populations are low, there was talk of guilds defecting from the game within months of launch, and despite a strong denial from publishers NCsoft, a Korean newspaper piece slamming the game as an expensive failure for the firm elicited a nod-and-wink "no smoke without fire" response from many quarters.
In public, NCsoft remains completely supportive of Tabula Rasa - dedicated to a programme of ongoing improvement and upgrades, and even to an expansion pack down the line. Privately, however, the company must be asking itself where it all went wrong.

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[Reyla]

It all could have been avoided if they asked themselves the question, "What have you done for me lately LB?" before giving him the money.

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Maybe they should try turning this into an SP game to limit the "complete" failure to an "no-so-complete" failure ?


And yes, I know that this is difficult. I wasn't "totally" serious with this, either.

 

[zakhal]

This is the same reviewer who gave 100% to wow just recently?

 

[woges]

This is the same reviewer who gave 100% to wow just recently?

No, that was Oli Welsh this is Rob Fahey.

 

[woges]

Rob Fahey did give The Burning Crusade 10/10 though.