{"id":5656,"date":"2009-05-06T14:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T21:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5656"},"modified":"2013-05-10T18:32:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T01:32:15","slug":"garriott-sues-ncsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/garriott-sues-ncsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Garriott Sues NCsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8583\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8583\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8583\" alt=\"Richard Garriott.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Richard-Garriott-S.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Garriott.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MAY 6, 2009 \u2022 Richard Garriott filed a lawsuit against his former employer NCsoft. Garriott maintains he was terminated by the publisher, although NCsoft has classified the parting as a resignation by the developer best known for the Ultima RPG series. At stake is $24 million in stock options. If fired, Garriott has until 2011 to exercise those options. As a voluntary resignation, Garriott would have only 90 days for option execution \u2013 a period of time that has already passed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: NCsoft is still in the hunt for new hits to add to its MMO franchise list. Tabula Rasa wasn&#8217;t it, and it seems like the publisher&#8217;s relationship with Garriott toward the end was more acrimonious than previously known. The big question post-NCsoft is whether Garriott has another hit in him, and how much of his own fortune he is ready to wager to bring a career resuscitating game to market.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 6, 2009 \u2022 Richard Garriott filed a lawsuit against his former employer NCsoft. Garriott maintains he was terminated by the publisher, although NCsoft has classified the parting as a resignation by the developer best known for the Ultima RPG series. At stake is $24 million in stock options. If fired, Garriott has until 2011 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}