Developer and spacefarer Richard Garriott has been awarded $28 million following a court case investigating his departure from MMO publisher NCsoft.
NCsoft had claimed at the time that the self-titled ‘Lord British’ had left the company of his own accord, but the Ultima creator was adamant that he had, in fact, been fired.
The basis of his case had been that he had found himself forced to sell his 40,000 shares in the firm immediately and in a poor climate as a result – had the official line been that he was dismissed, he would have had ten years to arrange this.
