The Return of Lord British [Apr 12, 2022, 7:57 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Ultima creator Richard "Lord British" Garriott is returning to game development
in a new studio called DeMeta. Garriott co-founded the company with Todd Porter,
who we haven't heard from since his stint as CEO of ION Storm during its
high-profile early days. Lord British's latest game project was Shroud of the
Avatar, which was part of the
Kickstarter trend. This time
around it's the allure of the blockchain that fuels the new project. Here's
word:
DeMeta, a newly created gaming studio started by Todd Porter, a founding producer of Dungeons & Dragons and the original Ultima series, and MMORPG heavyweight and creator of the beloved Ultima series, Richard “Lord British” Garriott, has begun development on an online title that will integrate blockchain technology.
Reunited and leveraging decades of their world-building experience across genre-defining titles such as Ultima, Ultima Online, Lineage, Tabula Rosa, and Shroud of the Avatar, both Todd and Richard have already begun development, having made significant hires in recent months.
Peeeling wrote on Apr 12, 2022, 21:10:
Just... why? Blockchain is of absolutely zero value to a game. I would absolutely love to be a fly on the wall in the conversations that lead to this kind of decision.
The fly on the wall would tell you that Garriott is once again hoping to jump on a bandwagon to make a quick couple million dollars or more. SotA never was a passion project but just like Tabula Rasa, Garriott was simply hoping to strike it big again so he could buy more space trips. He is a greedy money-grubbing trickster who is trying to exploit his has-been reputation for profit maximization any time a new fad comes along like Kickstarter or now blockchain/NFTs.
I was stupid enough to back SotA because I was hoping for a decent single player RPG, but after many empty promises and outright lies, Garriott bailed out long before the single player RPG component of SotA was even started. Never again. Fuck Garriott. I'm not going to touch any project he is involved with with a 3000ft pole. Fuck that lying scumbag.
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