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Poll! Repent for your sins, Richard Garriott
General Discussion « Tabula Rasa 9/29/07 6:34:40 PM
Tabula Rasa could have been good. I think he just decided that he had spent too much time and money on it already and threw in the towel. He is counting on his name to sell some boxes to help NCSoft make back some of the dev costs (which ultimately profits him more than a mildly successful game would). Most of the people on the TR forums and in game who adamantly defend it are the same people who call him General British and wet themselves when he pops in. And TR is RG's baby. He is not just executive producer on the game. He took a lead role in developing the game after the major overhaul of the concept. The fact is that he has not done much of anything other than executive produce games for a LONG time. His glory days are behind him. Even if it was ready to release, TR is a lightweight game. But RG is going to do what is best for NCSoft financially because that is what is best for him financially. Personally, I don't think he should make UO2 (or its spiritual successor) because I don't think his heart is really in it anymore. He has gone corporate. And he has made enough money that he can be called eccentric instead of odd (the living in a castle and going into space things, etc...). |
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