Analog-Theater 2.0

Robert talks about his curse.  When he likes an author that authors life expectancy suddenly drops.  This apparently happened with Douglas Adams, Robert Jordan, and Terry Pratchett.  However Michael Crichton was not his fault.  Right now we’re both waiting for Steven Erikson to announce his new incurable illness.

I think I might be curse, too.  Anything I like get canceled.  My favorite TV shows include John Doe, Threshhold, Crow: Stairway to Heavan, and Firefly.  “His Dark Materials” is one of my favorite series of books and I really enjoyed the first movie “The Golden Compass, so naturally they didn’t make any more. I like the manga series Pilgram Jager and Cross, both of which ended after only a couple volumes.  Planescape and Spelljammer were my two favorite campaign settings in 2nd Edition Dungeons and Dragons, neither of which were every reprinted fully in later editions.

Now, to top all of this off, my favorite MMO is Tabula Rasa.  Last week they announced that they are going to shutting it down in February of 2009 due to poor sales.   What I have hear in game (thought I can’t find any confirmation the net) is that there are currently only 27,000 subscribers and NCSoft wants at least 100,000 to keep their servers going.  So, I encourage everyone to go out and buy this awesome game quickly so that the developers don’t lose there jobs and I don’t have to find something else while I wait for Guild Wars 2.

Assuming that we will be unable to save Tabula Rasa by getting more subscribers, I have another suggestions.  I am thinking about organizing an LLC or other type of corperation and selling a lot of stock to people who want to save the game.  Then, using that money, approach NCSoft (or Starcom since Robert said he saw an article that they are thinking about buying the game, though I can’t find the article anywhere) and offering to collaberate with them or even buy out the game completely.  I like the second idea myself, assuming they will sell the game (though if you have something sitting on the shelf not generating any revenue and someone offers you $10 million for it…), then hire our own developers to fix it up and put in all the things that never got added, like more end game content, and maybe and the Earth and missions to retake it.  Also, one thing I would like to see is customizable clan bases.

I considered petitioning NCSoft to keep the game, but I seriously doubt they would listen to people who say that we want the game to stay, but we’re not going to buy it/subscribe to it.  In this case, I think that money really does talk.

I have started a thread in the Forums about what we can do to save the game.  If you have any comments or suggestions, please post them here.

Also, while it lasts, I have organized a clan in the game, Fighters for Peace. Feel free to join. Just send me a message in game. I am Demoneyes.