If Garriott is involved in any way in a gaming project (with any game, not just Ultima), it’s guaranteed to be trash.
Since at least 2010 or so he’s been involved exclusively in trying to ride the hype; Desktop ~2010 era “Facebook games” (ala Farmville), sketchy crowdfunded MMO games, first crypto-coin scams aimed at gamers, then an NFT scam game.
Garriott is clearly not interested in making video games any more beyond promoting his “personal brand” and cashing in (without any concern on gameplay or clear legality, let alone ethics).
Somewhere in the Shroud of the Avatar subreddit (MMO with which Garriott wanted to focus on selling virtual land) you can find a post about someone working with Garriott on Tabula Rasa; the commentator claimed that Garriott was already done with gaming at that point; just going wild with the budget; spending it on strip clubs and getting a position for one of the dancers (not inherently a bad thing, but such things should be done with care).
One shouldn’t believe everything they read online, but some of the references felt almost too specific for a random shitpost.
If Garriott is involved in any way in a gaming project (with any game, not just Ultima), it’s guaranteed to be trash.
Since at least 2010 or so he’s been involved exclusively in trying to ride the hype; Desktop ~2010 era “Facebook games” (ala Farmville), sketchy crowdfunded MMO games, first crypto-coin scams aimed at gamers, then an NFT scam game.
Garriott is clearly not interested in making video games any more beyond promoting his “personal brand” and cashing in (without any concern on gameplay or clear legality, let alone ethics).
Somewhere in the Shroud of the Avatar subreddit (MMO with which Garriott wanted to focus on selling virtual land) you can find a post about someone working with Garriott on Tabula Rasa; the commentator claimed that Garriott was already done with gaming at that point; just going wild with the budget; spending it on strip clubs and getting a position for one of the dancers (not inherently a bad thing, but such things should be done with care).
One shouldn’t believe everything they read online, but some of the references felt almost too specific for a random shitpost.