TR - Richard Garriott Talks with Total Video Games : FPS / MMORPG / RTS Discussion

06 / 20 / 2007

Total Video Games recently sat down with Richard Garriott to talk about his newest creation, Tabula Rasa. They chatted about the game's development process, closed beta, and how Tabula Rasa is poised to be the beginning of a new era for MMO gaming. Here is a sample:

Some of our favorite comments, and I'm paraphrasing here, were from people who had gone out of a few missions and had come back to town to refit their character like you would in most MMOs. But then there'd be air raid sirens going off, and they'd look up and see the Bane knocking down the front gate of the outpost they were at... The players have jumped up and helped defend the outpost and then when all is done, they've sat back down again, and only then do they realize that "Hey, I've got Experience Points for that, and I really wasn't caring. I was caring about defending the people that have been helping me with all these missions and that I've grown to care about."

You can read the entire feature here...

http://www.totalvideogames.com/articles/Tabula_Rasa_QA_-_Richard_Garriott_Feature_11728_4903_0_0_0_0_20.htm