I was a big fan of Tabula Rasa -- it had issues, certainly, but it was one of the most entertaining MMORPGs I'd played up to that point. The members of my former RP guild had decided to "get the band back together" so I had just resubbed when the announcement came that they were shit-canning the game. I was upset about it -- I still get a little nostalgic sometimes.

I loved the concept -- I've had space marine fantasies since I was a teenager reading "Starship Troopers" and sneaking into the den to watch "Aliens" whenever it would run on cable. Tabula Rasa allowed me to play out some of that pent-up "space soldier" stuff. It was a sci-fi lifeboat in a sea of fantasy clones.

The guild I was in split up -- some went to SWG, some started a roleplaying guild in advance of Stargate Worlds. I've been playing other games to pass the time before Star Trek Online and SW:TOR come out -- LotRO and Age of Conan, which I'll probably play for a while. But TR whet my appetite for playing in a sci-fi universe so... I'm really just counting the months.