Tabula Rasa Reinvents the MMO to Court Casual Gamers

By Susan Arendt 11.02.07 | 12:00 AM

A character in Tabula Rasa stands before the Torcastra Prison gates.
Screenshot: Courtesy of NC Soft


The new sci-fi game Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa ditches the traditional template for massively multiplayer online games, aiming to hook casual gamers who just want to enjoy a little escapism between dinner and helping the kids with homework.
Instead of investing hours learning the ins and outs of a complicated MMO, Tabula Rasa lets gamers get right to blasting aliens with laser pistols.
"It takes 30 minutes to an hour just to meet up with your friends to start playing" in most MMOs, says Richard Garriott, the new game's executive producer. In contrast, Tabula Rasa, a PC game that will be released Nov. 2, was designed to appeal to the average Joe who's probably not interested in learning what "gold farming" or "damage over time" means and just wants to amuse himself by saving the universe....... [cont]

'Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa' Reinvents the MMO to Court Casual Gamers

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I have to say I'm not a big fan of MMO but this looks interesting .

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