Tabula Rasa closing down

It comes as no surprise after a terrible launch, a year of empty servers and Richard Garriott's departure from NCsoft, that the company will be shutting down the game servers on February 28 next year. In a statement on the website NCsoft put on a brave face:

"Last November we launched what we hoped would be a ground breaking sci-fi MMO. In many ways, we think we've achieved that goal. Tabula Rasa has some unique features that make it fun and very different from every other MMO out there. Unfortunately, the fact is that the game hasn't performed as expected. The development team has worked hard to improve the game since launch, but the game never achieved the player population we hoped for."

The game will become free to play from January 10 and through the end, and NCsoft have a few more events planned for a dying virtual world.

Read: the full message on the website.