News: Garriott wins $28m from NCsoft
Court agrees that he was fired, lost out.
Richard Garriott, the father of Ultima and creator of Tabula Rasa, has won his lawsuit against former employers NCsoft and been awarded $28 million by the jury in the case.
Garriott sued the Korean publisher for fraud last year, claiming he was fired, but that NCsoft had “re-characterised” his departure as voluntary.
This meant Garriott had to sell his stock options in a depressed market rather than hold on to them, which he claims lost him dozens of millions of dollars.