I can't agree on this, the whole Garriot departure then wait a bit, protect revenue prior to closing the game, it's all been orchestrated over the last few months.

Garriot left because the game had no future and was being closed (not to be a spaceman, regardless of his father's experience)

They gave out a press release to protect revenue after he left, waiting a little, then they decided to curtail support for it in line with Aion Online beta, so they stand a chance of at least a small amount of customer retention.

Sure they can dump their losses, but this has a cost to their existing customer base who have invested both time and money in the product and something I'd like to see addressed.

So my question is, could NCSoft supply Tabula Rasa as an open source game back to the community if they were truly sorry to see it die?