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Rich Garriott, aka Lord British, aka one of the grandfathers of MMO gaming and even gaming in general through the
Ultima series, has fallen on some tough times lately. His latest attempt to re-enter the MMO market,
Tabula Rasa,
was recently cancelled, and with that, so was his job at NCSoft. Still,
according to computerandvideogames.com, he says he's ready to bounce back and get right into the gaming market.
But on a more topical note, he says something in the article about World of Warcraft, praising them for their phenomonal growth and saying that they have "shown us all what good game development is about." Certainly, most of us here, I would think, would strongly agree with that statement. But it is fun to compare and contrast this statement to somewhere around a year ago. Back then, he said that he didn't believe WoW would hurt Tabula Rasa's sales, because MMORPGers generally play a game or two at a time and move on after a year or so.
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