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Tabula Rasa Going Out With A Bang
Mytob notes that sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa is set to close down tomorrow, and the development team has something special planned for the game's final hours. The decision to close the game was made in November, and it went free-to-play a month later, while the developers continued to roll out the new content they had planned. Now, after a round of patches and server merges, the beleaguered MMO has reached its shutdown date. The game's primary enemies, the Bane, are launching an all-out offensive on Allied forces, which will culminate in a battle beginning at 8PM on Saturday and lasting until midnight. All players are being called in as reinforcements in this apocalyptic fight, though the final announcement says, "Penumbra has been informed of the situation and is standing by on the use of their last resort weapon. We can not afford to be complacent or uncertain, but if it is truly our destiny to be destroyed, we are taking them all with us."
It's the only way to be sure.
Women are like electronics: you don't know how damaged they are until you try to turn them on.
There are probably a few other MMO's they ought to take with them... cough cough Galaxies cough cough... Seriously though, it's nice to see a dev team giving some culmination to players that have stuck with it.
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does anyone know the website number?
they should release an open server even if it lacks the content and patch the client to allow the user to specify a server.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Does anyone notice?
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
....with a server crash Turbine couldn't give a flying **** about.
we threw a war, and nobody came?
When Disney announced they were shutting down VMK, they did so after a quest weekend where they ended up accusing their players of cheating. The final week of VMK was run exactly as the entire history of the game was - filled with lies and empty promises.
I stay home and have about 15 drinks and talk to a real live girl. Mind, she gets annoyed after about beer #10.
a bunch of fat faggot geeks sitting around on a saturday night weeping over the end of a mmo while spanking off to some epic space federation battle.
wtf is your problem people? go out, have a drink or two, talk to a real live girl.
wtf is your problem people? go out, have a drink or two, talk to a real live girl.
Why? So then I can have something real to weep about? Big improvement.
As in a proper, scripted end to the entire world?
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
I am afraid of girls.
Middle aged woman with a sonic lipstick and a few high school kids have repeatedly beat the Bane.
They're so lame, the Doctor doesnt even bother with them.....
I am totally lame to be reading about this on a Friday night. .... rolls dice...... score!!
I am open source, and Linux baby!
And I mean this seriously...
Was my bugged character.
I could run at about 5x normal speed, jump about 60', climb to the edges, and beyond (and fall off the edges of!) maps by bouncing up them, very easily.
I must say, once I got bugged, I didn't die once. How could I? I'd just RUN UP A MOUNTAIN and get away.
anyone with a little common sense would have done it by now. if you cant run it due to lack of funds, thousands of people can run it by collaborating.
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*pointing and stuttering in fear*
GU...GU...GU...GURL!
This game was just un-fun. I played during the open beta and it was 'fun' for the first night like just about any game. However, by the end of the second night it had already become a chore and there was no third night. Although I am a little surprised that it made this short of a run. Even Earth and Beyond nearly made two full years TR couldn't even make it for 18 months.
What would be better is to release the source to the client and the server so atleast it could live on in the community.
Unfortunately the bankruptcy officials may consider it part of the company's assets, to potentially be sold to pay off creditors.
If the stockholders had put something like that in the company charter BEFORE THEY TOOK ON DEBT it would be another story. Ditto if the creditors could be persuaded to release claims on the source for this purpose.
Also: Some players might form a consortium and make a bid on the source. (They could probably make a rather SMALL bid and still get it.) Once they own it they can do what they want with it - including releasing it under any license terms that don't violate those of any licensed IP it contains.
At least that's how I understand it. (Insert obligatory IANAL disclaimer here.)
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How many beers before she asks you to untie her - all the while promising you that she won't tell the police?
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
my fathers wife says...
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
I'd like to participate in this event, but can't find the download link for the game.
Hey! Is there any way to see the throwdown without joining a dying game? any help would be appreciated.
I'm here for the experience, not the Hyperbole.
Was it a huge drum of nerd spunk?!
I guess it just shows how subjective tastes are. I also tried it when it was first released, like many other people did -- you know, because it's Lord British and all -- and my conclusion was the exact opposite: there was not much to like about it. In fact, I hated every single design decision about it, except for "let's make it SF." Even as the "let's make a bastard child of MMO and FPS" went, it had been done much better before: e.g., Planetside.
In fact, you're the first person I even hear about which considered it a great game. I know several gamers IRL, and lemme tell you their tastes are spread all over the spectrum. There are a couple which prefer EQ2 over WoW, there's one guy who's actually become a big WAR fan, the mandatory couple of WoW addicts too, etc, among other distinctions. So, you know, at least about them you can't say that they didn't even try TR because of WoW, because more than half don't even like WoW. And invariably the talk went something along the lines of:
Mr X: "So, what have you been up to lately?"
Me: "Ah, I got Tabula Rasa last week."
Mr X: "And, how do you like it so far?"
Me: "To be honest, I'm don't like it that much."
Mr X: "Heh. Why don't you ever ask first? I could have told you it sucked."
Mind you, I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong in a matter of subjective tastes. Just that you were obviously a too small minority to keep the game running.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
a bunch of fat faggot geeks sitting around on a saturday night weeping over the end of a mmo while spanking off to some epic space federation battle. wtf is your problem people? go out, have a drink or two, talk to a real live girl.
Why should we go out? Everyone's got your mom on speed dial and she makes house calls.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the (supposed) good of its victims may be the most oppressive
Gotta make sure you get every single unit you don't own out of there or you could get sued.
The company has to clarify copyright ownership of each unit anyway, whether the company is freeing the copyrights or its creditors are putting them up for sale.
I'm wondering if you've ever used much commercial third-party code. There are frequently no copyright notices on individual units.
The build system would ideally have spit out a report that one of the latest check-ins to the version control system had no copyright notice. But then, if the developers were sloppy enough not to track the copyright in its source tree, that casts doubt on the code's quality in other respects, as what else were they sloppy enough not to track?
According to an in-character message posted on the game's official site, the world of Tabula Rasa ... will become overrun by an unstoppable tide of alien enemies, with humanity's only response being mutually assured destruction.
Can't we all just get along? Stupid question, there's no money in it!