Richard Garriott departs NCsoft

Posted Nov 11th 2008 4:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, MMO

With his long planned trip to outer space now completed, game design pioneer Richard "Lord British" Garriott is apparently moving onto new things. Today the official web site for his last title, the 2007 released MMO Tabula Rasa, had an announcement by Garriott announcing he was leaving the employment of the game's publisher NCsoft.

In his farewell message, Garriott stated that his recent trip to the International Space Station, "...has sparked some new interests that I would like to devote my time and resources to." He gave no indication on what these new interests might be. Before joining NCsoft in 2001 to develop Tabula Rasa, Garriott was one of the first major PC game developers, creating the Ultima series of RPG titles for his company Origin (later bought by Electronic Arts) which culminated in the first successful PC MMO title Ultima Online.

[Via Massively]

Tags: lord-british, ncsoft, richard-garriott, tabula-rasa, ultima, ultima-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Well, it makes sense. I doubt "vision" guys like him have much of a hand in the maintainance and post-release development of an MMO. Whether it was a flop or not, he probably wasn't being useful there, considering he had time to be fired into space and all.Posted at 8:51PM on Nov 11th 2008 by Sokkratez