I want to take the time to say that I don't think many users in the gaming community understand why bigger companies get sued. I think really big companies get sued because they want to do anything to capture the market into playing MMOs, even if it means cheating anyone into investing into the company.

While the video gaming market is huge and profitible, there players or key figures who get cheated out of their time and money because some companies are too lazy, not brothering or care about other people and some stuff from this article I will mention.

The best example is the recent events of NCsoft getting sued by Ultima creator Richard Garriott. For those that don't know, Ultima was one of the first RPGs born from America and became one of the first MMOs that took off and was highly successful back in the mid 90s. So successful that the Ultima series had influenced the MMOs that we play today.

NCsoft were sued by Richard Garriott for $27 Million USD back in mid-2009, as Garrio

From Space Adventure's Press Release:

First private spaceflight open to commercial involvement in mission activities.
September 28 2007


Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiencescompany, announced today that famed game developer Richard Garriott,son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, has begun preparations fora “commercially active” mission to the International Space Station(ISS).


Mr. Garriott’s spaceflight, currently planned for October 2008,will be the first in a series of missions that will accommodatecommercial activity aboard the ISS. Involvement from the private sectorcan include scientific and environmental research and educationaloutreach programming.


“It has always been Space Adventures’ goal to open the spacefrontier. Now, with Richard’s flight, we have designed a series ofmissions devoted to increase commercial involvement in manned spacemissions,” said Eric Anderson, president and CEO of Space Adventures.“It is a very rare occasion when so many commercial opportunities areavailable in one space mission. We encourage interested parties tocontact us.”


Space Adventures made history in 2001 by organizing the mission ofthe first private space explorer. Now

A lot of buzz has been made in recent years about opening space travel to the average Joe; today, NCSoft announced that gaming celebrity Richard Garriott will be among the pioneers of civilian space travel. Garriott is best known for his work on the Ultima series, and more recently as the Executive Producer for City of Heroes and the upcoming Tabula Rasa.

Garriott has opened up a site about the new venture, appropriately titled Richard Garriott's Space Mission, where he outlines some of his motivation and the details of the mission. He'll be traveling through Space Adventures, Ltd. to the International Space Station for a "commercially active" mission partnered with his father's biotechnology company, Extremozyme, Inc.

Between the civilian space travel, commercially available missions and a company named "Extremozyme," the mission seems almost like a work of Garriott's own fiction than a real endeavor -- but he's very serious in his devotion to the mission.

"I am dedicating my spaceflight to science," Garriott said. "It is my goal to devote a significant amount of my time aboard the space station to science, engineering and educational projects. We need to be adventurous in mind and s