Richard Garriott - Returns to Gaming

…though not necessarily in a way you might want. We received a press release announcing Portalarium, a developer and publisher of social networking games that was co-founded by Richard Garriott. There's nothing in there for us, so I'll leave it at that.
More information.

Great, Farmville in Britannia, awesome… NOT!

Richard Garriott is a creative guy, I think anything he works on will be at least interesting..

He's a serial entrepreneur more than a game designer, it seems. The stuff that charges his engine is being where the latest developments are happening than refining something that's old.

Jordan Weisman is the same way.

I don't suppose it's possible there's any technology connection with the Lords of Ultima browser game, mmm? Portalarium->Lords of Ultima->Facebook.

Ah well, another day, another hit on the rotting equine.

Originally Posted by wolfing
Great, Farmville in Britannia, awesome… NOT!

Isn't that his point? Facebook is filled with games like Farmville. It's big money and Garriot can't compete straight up with their budgets just yet, but he can compete on quality by… *not* making Farmville Britannia.

We can only hope.

Sweet @$! Poker? Really, Rich? Did you really need to go to space to think of that gem? Sweet @$! Poker??

Yeah it will be interesting to see how he will fail this time.

Not just Facebook, MySpace, etc. Also iPhone, PC, etc.

LOL, I think I will acctually prefer lords of utlima over this

Stop teasing!

Can't be pissed at the guy who created Ultima…

I stopped paying attention to what Garriott was doing quite some time ago. I also stopped paying attention to Jon Van Caneghem and various others. I just don't think they're going to make a brilliant comeback at some point - they've shown quite clearly that they are no longer interested in making RPGs anymore.

The list is loooong:

Braben
Garriot
Caneghem
Molyneux
Cameron

Etc.

On and on…

Roberta Williams

Originally Posted by Maylander
…they've shown quite clearly that they are no longer interested in making RPGs anymore.

So what? Can't they do something else in their life?

Originally Posted by BillSeurer
So what? Can't they do something else in their life?

No. They should be making us RPGs.

Originally Posted by BillSeurer
So what? Can't they do something else in their life?

Where did I say that? I simply said I no longer pay attention to what they do. I pay attention to RPGs and RPG developers. Just because someone made an RPG at some point in time doesn't mean I intend to study everything they ever do.