Lack of Direction

No doubt NCSoft felt confident that Garriott would deliver them something amazing, and quickly. After all, he’d done all those Ultima games, right? Sure, the last two singleplayer Ultimas weren’t that great, but Ultima Online had shown where the future was. Garriott knew MMOs, hell he even coined the term MMORPG!
Unfortunately for NCSoft, Tabula Rasa was not completed quickly. Little did they know in 2001, but the game was only just beginning a seven year saga of rewrites and resignations and hirings and firings and resets and redefinitions.[ Anthony Fordham on Aug 11 2017 ]