Tabula Rasa Beta Signups [Jan 05, 2007, 8:35 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Tabula Rasa Website is
now accepting sign-ups for beta testing of Destination Games' and NCsoft's
upcoming MMORPG (thanks
FiringSquad), though there's no word on when this testing is to commence.
Word is:
Destination Games and NCsoft are looking for a few good testers – and now is the time to enlist for the early rounds of Tabula Rasa beta testing. We will be selecting testers based on system specifications, game experience, location, and date submitted. Please note that processing your beta application will take some time and we have a limited number of beta slots available. Closed beta slots are limited to players over the age of 18 and require acceptance of a Non-Disclosure legal agreement.
Now, I'm sure someone will argue that MMOs aren't about these things. They are all about PvP, community and teamwork. Right. Any good team-based online shooter does these things far better, provided that you play with a clan and compete in ladders. You can claim that planning and executing a huge raid requires tons of teamwork, but planning and executing a victory against a human team without the benefits of stats and loot is far more involved.
I played WoW with hundreds of fellow guild members. We took over towns, we played games with the enemy by showing up in one location and poping up in another to kill their NPC hero/leader, and we had lots of fun doing it. That takes a ton of coordination and planning. There's nothing like the feeling of rolling through town with nothing to stop you and suddenly being overrun because the entire server has been alerted you your presence. And on a PvP server, there's nothing like the danger of being attacked out of nowhere at almost any time. That's why I played that game. Single player games and shoebox shooters are not the same thing.
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