He has the vision to see that facebook games have a production cost less than a million dollars with a payout of 10x that. Where as traditional mmorpgs are looking towards 10s to 100s of millions of dollars with no where near that kind of quick cash out.
The fact is, he is a has been. Ultima online is 10 years old with the series it self reaching on 20. The majority of the gaming population has never played any of his games. After going through 50 million dollars of ncsofts money and crashing their western product line into the ground, there isn't anyone left who would either hire him or front him the money for a real mmo.
Richard Garriott and the choppy waters of social gaming
Apr 6th 2010 5:18PM (Massively)The fact is, he is a has been. Ultima online is 10 years old with the series it self reaching on 20. The majority of the gaming population has never played any of his games. After going through 50 million dollars of ncsofts money and crashing their western product line into the ground, there isn't anyone left who would either hire him or front him the money for a real mmo.