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Title: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: IainC on February 18, 2010, 03:14:47 AM I'm not making this up (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98382-Richard-Garriott-is-Back-in-the-Game).
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Tebonas on February 18, 2010, 03:28:17 AM If thats the whole truth its just sad.
From world building to creative director for a poker game. Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: 01101010 on February 18, 2010, 05:20:17 AM :ye_gods:
Or this could be a seed. Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Sky on February 18, 2010, 06:36:10 AM How is this in any way sad or surprising? World building is dead, creative people are a limited market and the mass market just wants to fuck with them, driving away the core audience of a world sim.
Meanwhile, facebook games are huge and every mouthbreather in the world thinks he's a poker shark. Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Ratman_tf on February 18, 2010, 07:19:33 AM After Tabula Rasa, I think this is the best place for him. :grin:
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: UnSub on February 18, 2010, 07:30:56 AM There's a good opportunity in getting into the market and becoming the defacto development platform, or at least a major player in it. Ultimately you get paid even if a title never launches because you're a third party supplier.
The HeroEngine springs to mind here - if Simultronics was just developing a MMO, they would have been dead long ago. Plus: if I was Garriott, I wouldn't want to be back in front of a huge AAA title either. Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: schild on February 18, 2010, 07:35:30 AM He has zero to do with the game itself. He's more of a symbol of the studio than anything else. It is, in fact, a job I too would take. That is, if just by existing I created marketing and investment opportunities like he somehow does.
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Lantyssa on February 18, 2010, 09:36:55 AM Nostalgia. And people wanting bilk others based on their nostalgia.
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Stephen Zepp on February 20, 2010, 04:42:14 PM We found it pretty interesting that not only is the game in Torque, but he's also now distributing a plugin to play games in a browser. Hrm!
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: HaemishM on February 22, 2010, 02:00:29 PM Interesting as in "Motherfucker didn't pay us for a dev copy?" or as in "Bitch needs to name-drop us?"
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Slyfeind on February 23, 2010, 04:38:37 PM Holy crap, yeah. I just caught wind of this. I always thought Garriott would be perfect for small casual games, for the very reasons he cited. But what the hell, poker?
He says he wants to do more, but...poker?! I can whip up an Ultima game in like 30 minutes with Torque. :uhrr: Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: schild on February 23, 2010, 04:41:07 PM Once again, RG had little to nothing to actually do with it. Please stop saying otherwise.
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Slyfeind on February 24, 2010, 03:15:57 PM Indeed. Nobody said otherwise.
Title: Re: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot Post by: Ratman_tf on February 25, 2010, 12:33:25 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi9zcRDeEcQ
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