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Where the Hell did Richard Garriot get $35million from?

SuicideBunny

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Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Torment: Tides of Numenera
ah, the good old times on lum the mad's when all of the industry suddenly figured that a shitty game like lineage was making more money than all the big western mmos combined..
 

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Yes, before Lum sold out to Mythic...ah the oldschool drama, the carebears versus the PKs, the random insulting, and Ultima Online was still worth 100 line forum posts.
 

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Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Torment: Tides of Numenera
JarlFrank said:
So if you want to become fucking rich, you just have to make a successful MMORPG?
no. you have to make a korean/asian gankers' paradise mmorpg.
although, i guess, wow probably changed even that.
 

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Chefe said:
http://www.video.news.com.au/index-popup.html?Channel=NEWS.com.au+video&ClipId=1094_389226&bitrate=300&Format=flash

NEWS.com.au talks to pro gamer Ashley Jenkins about sexism in the gaming community.
Same shit I heard about 10 years ago. So much for them making progress.
 

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You know what's interesting:

Jon Van Caneghem, a good friend of Richard Garriott, and the man behind all the Might And Magic games, also shifted to MMOs. I just wonder why? Is the last MM game so bad?
 

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So now it should be clear to everyone why more MMORPGs are being made than SP RPGs.

No matter what they say, it's simply GREED.
 

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News say the toilet has broken again on the space station.

Shitting into outer space through an illuminator, that's some 35 millions well spent, Richie! :D
 

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JarlFrank said:
So if you want to become fucking rich, you just have to make a successful MMORPG?
Interplay is gonna earn some serious $$$.
 

Ebonsword

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I never knew that his father was a Skylab astronaut until I heard an interview with Richard Garriot on NPR the other day.

I guess that explains where all that crazy outerspace stuff came from in the first two Ultima games.

Oh, and I was watching the When We Left Earth Blu-ray over the weekend, and guess who got interviewed about Skylab on that show? Yep, Garriot's dad.
 

MisterStone

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All of the MM games I have played were bad... they were fucking retarded hack jobs. Garriot probably just felt sorry for that guy and let him pretend to be his friend or something... I can't make sense of this any other way.
 

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Richard could probably use some tips from the M&M guy for most of its titles when it comes to statistics and character development, I would risk saying combat mechanics too.

Seriously were the ultimas, putting aside the setting, the interactive world and characters and all that shit really great rpgs on the other aspects?

And Ascension? WTF the fuck was that bugged to hell underdeveloped drull POS.
 

Pastel

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I think space tourism is faggotry. If you go up there at least do something useful.
 

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Its a grand soul changing personal journey Pastel. You obviously are not a very romantic or sensible guy.

Shame on you.
 

Thrasher

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but faggotry is a soul changing personal journey.
 

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