I hate to tell you guys, but it's dying. NCsoft turned down an offer of $2,000,000 for Auto Assault, for several reasons:

1) Companies don't like to waste R&D budgets and IP's.

2) Legal tax writeoffs in terms of financial loss will more than cover any reasonable offer anyone would make for TR.

3) NCsoft wants to stick it to Garriot for leaving them by killing the game he abandoned.

If you want to blame anyone for TR, blame NCsoft 35%, Garriot 65%. Go watch the video with the harp. Now go play Halo 2. See what happened?

That being said, it's going to be hilarious, because Blizzard is going to Bill Hicks-ify TR, with a smidgeon of Mass Effect for their upcoming Worlds of Starcraft.