The official NCSoft web site has posted up a "State of the Game" report on their recently launched sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa. Written by the game's producer Starr Long, he attempts to curtail rumors on the game's financial problems, stating that they continue to add content to the game "every few weeks" and will continue to do so. Richard Garriott is also still involved in the game's development even while he continues his training for his upcoming space flight later in 2008. Here is a snip:

I would be remiss if I don’t clarify the matter of rumored “massive layoffs” within NCsoft North America and the Tabula Rasa team. While the game has not taken off as quickly as we had hoped, we also launched in an insanely competitive time frame, with several well-known intellectual properties launching follow up products at the same time. However, the fact of the matter is that we are transitioning from a pre-launch crunch-mode development team to a live service team. This is standard in our industry—you ramp up to launch a game and then ramp down once it’s live. This is what we are doing over the next several weeks, and it only affects the Tabula Rasa team. Once all is said and done, we will still have a substantial live team for industry standards. As you can see by the new features we’re working on, we’re still planning on lots of great content and updates all year long.

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