NCsoft decided to axe Tabula Rasa in February -- for underperformance. Originally, NCsoft planned January 10 to be the day when Tabula Rasa becomes subscription-free. But plans change, and NCsoft announced that as of now new players as well as those who've already played the game can join the fun for free. more...

Tabula Rasa, the newest MMO from Richard Garriott (of Ultima Online fame and therefore a pioneer of the genre that Blizzard by now dominates) was not really off to a very good start last year. After some major patches, many issues had been adressed and the small community slightly grew, but one of the major problems still was that the game ceased to be fun once you had a high-level character. There was just no really motivating endgame content in there. This will soon change with a major patch, which is about to bring some serious amount of endgame content into the game by ... ending it. (oh, see what I did there?) more...