Tabula Rasa down in the dumps?

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I have good things about all of NCsoft's games but the only one that really took off was CoX.

- Auto Assault crashed and burned
- Lineage 2 has limped along for years in the 'States with no real direction. Only the hardcore are still around.
- Tabula Rasa looks like a work in progress that was released despite it's condition

All things considered I will never play another title that has NCsoft anywhere on the box. There were just too many moments when I saw an inexplicable bug or game mechanic make it into the "live" environment and then they would persist there for years. They are either unwilling or unable to get their act together.

Like it or not, Blizzard changed the landscape of the industry. Make it solid and support it or die a slow painful death. Releasing a game that doesn't allow you to lock the UI(to keep from dragging bars out of position) is inexcusable...leaving that untouched for FOUR YEARS makes you wonder if ANYONE in the company is even trying.

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Lineage 2 may have fallen flat in the states, but it still pulled in over 30 million last year on the strength of its following in Korea alone. Those are hardly WoW numbers, mind you, but they're significant.

TR doesn't have that Korean audience to fall back on. It's only ever had four servers running total, and the European server is the only one that's had anything other than "low" server population since about mid-November. It's sad, because the game had some potential, particularly in its combat system, but it still hasn't really gelled.

I wonder how long it will be before this sort of backlash curbs the wild spending people are putting into the market?

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