Comments on: Perspectives

By: Tikayyan

Tikayyan — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:31:35 +0000

Planetside was actually fantastic once the chips fell and fate made it a 50K subscriber niche game rather than a chart burner.

Being a PvP-only game with purely player-character driven gameplay it’s curious to me that it’s popped up in conversation here a few times being compared to or grouped with RPGs.

By: Tabula Rasa R.I.P. | Pumping Irony

Tabula Rasa R.I.P. | Pumping Irony — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:06:25 +0000

[...] is largely due to a culmination of all those other smaller issues: apathy. Scott Jennings wrote an insightful article as an NCsoft insider’s view on Tabula Rasa back in January, and towards the end says this: In the [...]

By: Success or failure of MMOGs (part 1/3)

Success or failure of MMOGs (part 1/3) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:31:12 +0000

[...] [LTM] Response: Perspectives …is resignation the only valid response? Surely [...]

By: Veritas Gax

Veritas Gax — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:39:26 +0000

Gamebryo is a renderering engine but that doesn’t make it an “MMO engine”. IIRC, Emergent has been developing an MMO engine proper for a while now but in ‘01 such a thing wasn’t so much as a twinkle in some dev’s eye.

I still haven’t heard of a reasonably successful commercial MMO that has shipped on a third party “MMO engine”. Or have I missed a press release?

By: An Insight into Failed MMOs | GamesTopica.Net

An Insight into Failed MMOs | GamesTopica.Net — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:57:41 +0000

[...] here’s another one over at Broken Toys on the fate of Tablua Rasa. Related Articles: This work, unless otherwise [...]

By: EpicSquirt

EpicSquirt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:30:59 +0000

@Vaxhacker Gamebryo? It's not like you have so stick with the software you initially decided to use all the way through the process of developing your product; unless you've designed some monolithic monument, where no part can be exchanged.

By: MMOG Nation » On AAA Fantasy MMOs as ‘Solved Problems’

MMOG Nation » On AAA Fantasy MMOs as ‘Solved Problems’ — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:22:28 +0000

[...] Steve Danuser put up a post weighing in on the fate of Tabula Rasa. His was but one of many, with Scott, Damion, Eric, and Adam all putting in their two cents as well. I can’t hope to add anything to [...]

By: Pix Vix Picks - The Debut » PixelVixen707

Pix Vix Picks - The Debut » PixelVixen707 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:15:37 +0000

[...] Jennings blogs on the end of NCSoft and Tabula Rasa – intriguing post-mortem written by a developer who wasn’t on the Tabula Rasa team, but saw [...]

By: mmm

mmm — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:17:12 +0000

Someone asked earlier about Richard Garriott, what the hell did he do besides being a shiny rock-star and no answer was given. Does anyone have the answer to that question? Or is it just another Daikatana on a different scale?

By: Vaxhacker

Vaxhacker — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:30:55 +0000

EpicSquirt : Also, did DG develop an own game engine for TR? If so, that would have been another mistake.

What MMO engines were commercially available in the spring of 2001, pray tell, that might have been used?