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Tabula Rasa News - Richard Garriott to Return to Earth
Posted by Keith Cross on Oct 23, 2008 | 28 comments in our forums
Richard Garriott, game designer and creator of the Ultima series, who more recently attached his name to NCsoft's Tabula Rasa, will be ending his stay at the International Space Station and will be returning to Earth later today.
Space Adventures is pleased to inform you that Richard's mission has been extremely successful and he is now getting ready for his return to Earth. He has successfully completed all of his planned activities including his medical and science experiments, as well as his educational outreach efforts. Please visit www.richardinspace.com for the latest video, audio and photos from space.
Today, the Expedition 17 Commander Sergey Volkov will hand over the ISS to the Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke. Richard and the Expedition 17 crew will undock from the ISS tomorrow for their journey home. To view the live coverage on these activities on NASA TV, please visit www.richardinspace.com and click on LIVE ONLINE FEED.
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LOL, amusing headline. We can only hope. He's actually been "in space" since around the time of Ultima 8... That's gotta be some sort of record! :-)
If he's smart he'll drive staright to his office and pull the plug on TR.
Poor Earth......... *doh*
He should only be alowed back if he dosen't plan on producing anymore MMORPG's
Poor Earth......... *doh*
Don't worry they still might miss.
lol they dont need to be worried about him. They need to be more worried about TR and put more focus on that instead of him.. What a shame... I liked that game till they started the stupid PR crap and started to pull the ingame content they said they were going to do.. Now all of a sudden they came back saying now they are going to implement the squards... Blah little too late.. Im still waiting for them to start releaseing the PAUs... uh hu...
If he wanted to actually promote the game, it would have been far wiser to skip the space flight and sink some of that money into TR. As it is, nothing is going to help that game without major improvements to it which is way beyond the current teams skills.
Your gaming dollars hard at work, providing Garriott the chance to live up to daddy!
Shoot him back up!
You can really feel the love in this thread :P
But yea, more about TR, less about Richard please.
i dont play TR but i think its kinda cool and I dont see why ppl are flaming him so bad.
maybe cos he's the CRAZIEST mofo on the planet?!?
Yeah, he is a bit out there. I remember seeing video of him in his 'castle of a home' and thinking, I can't believe I ever played any of this guys games.
Perhaps he discovered a miracle patch on some asteroid for Tabula Rasa while he was up in space ? I do wish him a safe ride home though!
So much for requesting that he be left in orbit by "mistake".
Now I'm out 15 cases of good Russian Vodka with nothing to show for it.
Jerks....
maybe cos he's the CRAZIEST mofo on the planet?!?
He just upgraded his status to the most craziest mofo in the solar system.
I never realized that he was already in space after all i did play TR. hahah owned.
Could this whole "R. Garriot in space" be more useless a subject??
Ok, I just want to jump into this thread here:
First of all, the whole Richard going into space thing isn't about promoting TR. He did not go into space to promote the game. His going into space has actually beena lifelong dream of the man's forever. His dad was an astronaught and he wanted to do it.
Richard made big time money in the gaming business and decided to spend a large chunk of it on this. The promotion is something that wsa done on the side. Why not? it was happening anyway why not take advantage of an opportunity for mainstream coverage?
So, to get it straight, no money was diverted from Tabula Rasa to Richard's flight into space. His going or not going has no berring on the betterment of the game. It's just an interesting story that someone from the gaming industry actually did this.
Who the hell cares about Tabula Rasa? I feel sorry for the planet!
Maybe if they made Tabula Rasa a MMOFPS it may have succeeded.
Give it a sec, were still trying...wait for it...(CLICK!) There we go, should be even more useless now!
It can be played in a FPS mode, just scroll the mouse wheel in or out.
It can be played in a FPS mode, just scroll the mouse wheel in or out.
Wait wait TR can be played!!!!!????
Could not be more of a failure if they Hired John Romero as the PR man.
This is perfectly summed up by Lewis Black
"Expensive, you bet! But it was the only way she could achieve her life long dream of flying over every single starving person on Earth and yelling 'Hey look at what i'm spending my money on!'"
Change the she to a he and you got Sir Richard.
Richard garriott's tabula rasa- what a douche bag.
That's actually two douchebags.
I met Richard a few years ago at GenCon, good guy, modest, quiet, not at all like the Uwe Boll's and other arrogant prima donna's of the industry.
Basically he's just doing his own thing in his own time because he can, he seems to have risen above trying to please all the narrow minded bigots in gaming and is just living life how he wants, not how people think he should.
The publicity and attention he gets comes from other people following him around, not unlike Richard Branson, and the vast majority of that attention and $$$ gets re-directed toward advancing the various science and education foundations he supports.