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jShazBot
11/02/09

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So this guy can do anything except run a successful MMO? #richardgarriott
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Psudonym
11/02/09

@jShazBot: Actually you're both kinda right.

Ultima Online is still going strong, somehow. But honestly it hadn't had much input from Lord British himself for most of its lengthy life. The throne sat empty.

Tabula Rasa on the other hand, was a massive flop. #richardgarriott
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sgt.riggs001
11/02/09

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Anyone got a better video of this? At least, a video that I can actually WATCH without having to wait for the 30second ad to stop buffering, playing 3 seconds, buffering, starting again etc. etc.

"Hey, he's got real onions in his onion strips" is all I heard...and is probably what I'll dream about when I fall asleep. Curse you crappy embedded video and/or crappy internet connection...I wanna see robot thingamajigs!!!
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Michael McWhertor
11/02/09

@sgt.riggs001: I added a link to a YouTube upload, which may stay up... #richardgarriott
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Bouchart
11/02/09

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Edit: delete this post.
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TaylorEatWorld
06/04/09

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Oh God, the tag!!

MAWWAGE
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Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
06/04/09

Man, out of context "He didn't come...." sounds really bad in my mind...
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feathers4sale
06/04/09

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I've always wondered, how do you take a piss in zero-G?
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Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
06/04/09

@feathers4sale: Very carefully.
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
06/04/09

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He's a Zero-G junky.... anything to get to zero-g, ANYTHING!
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TSFMfest - not funny
05/06/09

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No, you guys have it all wrong--

He blew $30 million going to space, so now he has to get more cash so that he can upgrade his manor to a Lv. 2 Fortress.
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Knoxximus ver. 5.66
05/06/09

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Garriot doesn't do anything half-assed. I believed him from the word go.
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Anthony David Croft
05/06/09

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The part of the artical stating that he agreed to the post one the website as well as his termination shows that it was infact his decision becosue if he did not want to leave he should have fought for his job.
But at any rate who takes a vacation to go to space and comes back to his job, seriously thats like me taking a trip to the center of the earth for a couple months and then comming back and work at McDonalds.
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Erode
05/06/09

@Anthony David Croft: "Who takes a vacation to go to space and comes back to his job?"

Maybe a man that just spent $30 million dollars to take a vacation in space?
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huginn
05/06/09

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This one is kinda iffy I'd say.

Garriott clearly wasn't acting like a developer should. Shying away from the industry and going into space while his flagship mmo-game dies. While he might not have left voluntarily, he clearly didn't show he was fully on board with NC and that's what NC will be banking on.
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pd771
05/06/09

@huginn is not an emo pink kitty: Yes, but they were still legally obligted to do things and it sounds like they committed fraud so to screw him over.
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NeöStarr
05/06/09

@huginn is not an emo pink kitty: Are you serious? Going to space is a pretty once in a lifetime opportunity; I wouldn't give it up because people weren't playing a game I made. It's not like he ran off to Mexico to escape child support payments or something. Dude did everything he could to save Tabula Rasa and it didn't work out. He deserved more respect from NCSoft. They had no right to publish a letter in his name; that's fraud.
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huginn
05/06/09

@pd771: 'legally' or not. NC will directly challenge his status as actively working. Going on the most lavish of trips (space) while a multi-million dollar MMO fails is tantamount to walking out of your job during a crisis. He went to space literally during crunch time and TR was shipped in a near incomplete state.

Merit, I don't agree with NC's PR tactic, they had enough on Garriott to make there claim without forging a fraudulent statement that should be a suit on it's own. If anything, if it is true that they forged that statement, in an effort to show he was quitting, he definately has the advantage here.

In addition to the above claim, any judge will have to directly prove that NCsoft would have grown as a company and that Garriott's 'selling early in a depression' indeed cost him money. A very bold claim.
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huginn
05/06/09

@NeoStarr: Agreed. I would easily quit my job for the same opportunity.

BUT, he did it during the most critical time of his project's apex. NCsoft CAN make the claim that the hiatus of TR's Executive Producer significantly hurt the game's release (reviews said it was buggy and incomplete) and that his prolonged absence is tantamount to walking off the job.

I don't agree with NCsoft, but Garriott's choice may have hurt TR and this feels like NCsoft is trying to get revenge.
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Omnimon
05/06/09

@huginn is not an emo pink kitty: Companies don't have to grow for their stock price to increase, and I wholeheartedly disagree that it's a very bold claim that Garriott's selling in an economic downturn cost him money.

Instead of the $24M, they'll settle on some $ amount for lawyers and negligent misrepresentation, change his status to involuntary departure, and reinstate his stock options.
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huginn
05/06/09

@Omnimon: True, but it typically helps. It's far fetched to say you lost money by having to sell your stock early due to a down economy. Not to mention he doesn't have to directly sell his stock depending on how the contract works out.
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Omnimon
05/06/09

@huginn is not an emo pink kitty: Something I didn't catch was the phrasing, Garriott has already sold the stocks or has 'lost' them the contract (November 2008 to May 2009 > 90 days, he's still categorized as voluntary departure in NCS's eyes).
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jamosthefifth
05/06/09

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Wow, I was going to say that 24 million seems like a lot for one guy... but considering how bad the company just tried to screw him, it sounds like he deserves it.

But in all honesty, I wouldn't have a clue what to do with that much money. :P
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madog
05/06/09

@jamosthefifth: The same thing anybody would do: blow it all on 20 fancy cars, a couple big houses you will never use, show it all on MTV cribs, invest it all in some stranger you've never met because some other greedy rich asshole recommended him, lose everything, bitch and moan because you are an idiot, and then die lonely and pennyless. It's the American dream, after all, to never be satisfied with what you have.

Personally, I'd spend it all on drugs and hookers and die with a smile on my face and vomit stains on my clothes, and give whatever I didn't spend to my family for my funeral so there could be strobe lights and techno music and they could suspend my body from wires which would suddenly drop and suspend me in mid air; but hey, that's just me.
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Paradox me
05/06/09

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Funny how a little bit of information changes things. In yesterdays article it was "Fuck Garriott, he deserves to be fined for making Tabula Rasa, har har"

If it is true, that's extremely pathetic on NCsoft's part and they deserve to be taken for as much as possible.
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Dr Durdon
05/06/09

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I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but maybe this guy's a total douche, and that's why he was booted. Maybe he's "that guy" around the office that no one likes but has to tolerate. He's the guy who walks up behind you in your office/cube and you just dread turning around because you don't even want to see his face.

I dunno, his face just has that look of "I repell people" to me.

Cheers!
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ElectronicOrange
05/06/09

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Wow! So he wasn't being a dick after all! It's the complete opposite!
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Kobun
05/06/09

@BlisteringOrange: Hooray for kneejerk Internet reactions! Amazing how public opinion can turn within 12 hours. :/
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Comatose Turtle
05/06/09

@BlisteringOrange: According... to whom?
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
05/06/09

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"I could see the planet as it appeared from space... That's when it finally hit me... Tabula Rasa is nothing but another game in the power struggle between the me and NCsoft. PC games, civilian space flight, MMO games... They're all just arenas for meaningless competition. I'm sure you can see that. But the world itself has no leveling up - no Warcraft, no Aion, no Runescape..."

- Richard Garriott
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TheIrishNinja
05/06/09

@PatrickF**kingStar: if NCsoft did write that, its kind of ironic.
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kobeashi
05/06/09

@PatrickF**kingStar: where did you get this quote, out of curiousity?
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
05/06/09

@kobeashi:

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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
05/06/09

@TheIrishNinja: Ironic?! If they did write that... it's kind of evil.
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TheIrishNinja
05/06/09

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): you're kind of evil!

wait, yeah, you're right, it is. im just saying, ironic of them to write a letter decrying their entire industry, heh.
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