Garriot alleges that he was fired, while NCsoft claims that he resigned. Either way it’s clear that he wasn’t wanted any more. Surely it’s common sense that execs at NCsoft were unhappy about something, right?

I don’t see how you can see bias when all that’s being reported is that NCsoft execs had a certain perception. The article offers no opinion on whether or not this perception was accurate.

ethereal.wolf :

Angelworks :
@Zuzax
Well actually:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/05/123_44665.html
"However, industry sources say that the company's upper management had grown frustrated with Garriott's work ethic, wondering whether he was spending too much time on his space adventure and other socialite activities rather than dedicating time to his Austin game studio."

sry anything that comes from a korean weekly smells strongly of nationalist bias. do you have something like that from an american source?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Gj7mJbPPc

Feel better?

I will concede that it’s a justified concern over Korean/Chinese sources, but at the same time, that cited paragraph isn’t exactly news or a theory nobody in the Western Hemisphere had formulated before. Just reading this blog and places linked to from here, you get pretty much the same impression, without the need to wrap it in the star-spangled banner.

Just witness how his space trip was turned into a joke at the time, when he was by no means the first one to do it; this alone should mean something.

Angelworks :
@Zuzax
Well actually:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/05/123_44665.html
"However, industry sources say that the company's upper management had grown frustrated with Garriott's work ethic, wondering whether he was spending too much time on his space adventure and other socialite activities rather than dedicating time to his Austin game studio."

sry anything that comes from a korean weekly smells strongly of nationalist bias. do you have something like that from an american source?

hanshotfirst :

UnSub :
The six months may have also been spent trying to get NCsoft to do things without getting the lawyers involved.

Six weeks? Sure. Six months? C’mon. You know that’s a stretch.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume someone who can afford an interstellar joyride and a plurality of mansions has at least one attorney on constant retainer. He’s not exactly distributing software via ziplock baggies anymore.

I’m inclined to believe the six months part even with legal involved the whole time. The legal process moves at a glacial pace at best, and what with preparing phone-book-sized briefs, getting depositions and all that, six months seems pretty sprightly. Remember, attorneys bill by the hour so they have no motivation to move expediently.

UnSub :
The six months may have also been spent trying to get NCsoft to do things without getting the lawyers involved.

Six weeks? Sure. Six months? C’mon. You know that’s a stretch.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume someone who can afford an interstellar joyride and a plurality of mansions has at least one attorney on constant retainer. He’s not exactly distributing software via ziplock baggies anymore.

hanshotfirst :
So what’s his latest make-believe identity now, Barrister British?

I suppose the obligatory Phoenix British, Ace Attorney photoshops are out there somewhere.

hanshotfirst :
So what’s his latest make-believe identity now, Barrister British?

Nah, Astronaut British.

On the upshot, Stephen Colbert will probably vouch for him.