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    Default Richard Garriott suing NCsoft for fraud

    Ultima and Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott is suing his former employer NCsoft for fraud, to the tune of USD 24 million.


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    The suit was filed yesterday at the Texas Western District Court, as you can see at Justia. The legal eagles at Kotaku spotted it.

    Richard Garriott left NCsoft late last year after his 2007 science-fiction MMO, Tabula Rasa, failed to perform. Ten days later, the Korean publisher announced that it would discontinue the game.

    While at the time it sounded like Garriott had - fresh from his trip into space - simply walked away for a new challenge outside of games development, court documents have surfaced today showing that Garriott is suing NCsoft for a whopping $24 million.

    Garriott and his brother had effectively headed NCsoft's US operations since the company bought their Austin, Texas studio, Destination Games. Since then, NCsoft has restructured its US and European arms into NCsoft West, led by executives from Guild Wars developer ArenaNet.

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    Do you know why?

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    thats small change for NCSoft...
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    Yeah, why? why?

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    if that low charge for ncsoft cancels one of the games from ncsoft.. i will sue richard garriott in my dream! oh nevermind, i don't play any ncsoft games

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    He's probably mad because all his games suck now and his name was attached to tabula rasa. Which seemed to suffer the worst fate, so I guess his reputation is ****ed? Well at least I think he's a douche bag.

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    Didn't he took all money from mu online (or whatever that 2d game was) and left it with the money in his pockets?

    If so we all know who will win the trial.


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    He's probably just butthurt because Tabula Rasa failed.

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    than its sad for him to do this..

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    He wants to go to space again ?

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    He's suing them for 'Fraood'? For some reason it gave me the inpression that he was upset about how his game had done =/ whichis petty.

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    Well maybe NCsoft didn't give his game the success he expected.... perhaps they lied to him or they didn't host it properly.

    I say let him sue.
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    He pretty much is sueing NCSoft so that he can dish out more money to go into space.

    Epic Phail.

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    They should tie him to a rocket and send him into orbit.

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    Here is Richard Garriott's *OFFICIAL* reason for the lawsuit.

    Game Politics - Richard Garriott VS NCSoft

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    Quote Originally Posted by replicant View Post
    Here is Richard Garriott's *OFFICIAL* reason for the lawsuit.

    Game Politics - Richard Garriott VS NCSoft
    Haha so now all you Garriott bashers get the ugly news that NCsoft is corrupt. Poor guy lost out in the end cause they changed the paper work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by replicant View Post
    Here is Richard Garriott's *OFFICIAL* reason for the lawsuit.

    Game Politics - Richard Garriott VS NCSoft
    I still don't like garriot but firing him while he's in quarantine and then saying he left voluntarily is harsh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Groteske View Post
    Haha so now all you Garriot bashers get the ugly news that NCsoft is corrupt. Poor guy lost out in the end cause they changed the paper work.
    Not what I read at all. Sounds like they got tired of his shit and let him walk which he did gladly. Now all of a sudden his stock options are important because legal informed him of his own stupidity for not tying up loose ends. NCSoft didn't come across as corrupt, but they did come across as a business tired of giving him a freeride.

    Quote Originally Posted by JackTheStripper View Post
    I still don't like garriot but firing him while he's in quarantine and then saying he left voluntarily is harsh.
    Think of it more as "Forced Retirement" rather than as being fired. Garriott left and on a few interviews that I'm not bored enough to dig up he commented about his desire to focus on Space Adventures and not games and was happy with him leaving NCSoft. He's not the poor tragic victim he's trying to hoodwink the courts into thinking he is.

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    Man NCSoft is just getting sued left and right these days.


    Sad thing is, they're actually a good company..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gither79 View Post
    say good bye to AION lol. i had a feeling that was going to happen
    Uhh, they wouldn't cancel AION because of this lawsuit. Even if this does hurt them, they'll make more money releasing AION (imo) here than NOT releasing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gither79 View Post
    say good bye to AION lol. i had a feeling that was going to happen
    Most played game in Korea and China as well as lineage 1 and 2 being in the list.

    Do you think money only comes from the Western customers O.o?

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