Tabula Rasa shutting downTabula Rasa (PC), the MMO designed by industry pioneer Richard Garriott, will shut down on February 28, 2009.
"Unfortunately, the fact is that the game hasn't performed as expected. The development team has worked hard to improve the game since launch, but the game never achieved the player population we hoped for," reads a letter on the Tabula Rasa website.
The team added that the game will become free to play starting January 10 before the game sees the plug pulled at the end of February.
In closing the game, NCsoft will lay off an undetermined number of employees. "We're going to be scaling down the TR team in preparation for the end of live service," said spokesman David Swofford to Kotaku. He added, "We currently don't know how many people will be affected by that."