Editing Richard Garriott (section)

===NCSoft===
Once Garriott's non-compete agreement with EA expired a year later, Destination partnered with [[NCSoft]] where Garriott acted as a producer and designer of MMORPGs. After that, he became the CEO of NCSoft Austin, also known as NC Interactive.<ref>{{cite news|title=Garriott leaving NCSoft|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/11/10/daily31.html|date=November 12, 2008|publisher=bizjournals.com|access-date=January 15, 2023}}</ref>

''[[Tabula Rasa (video game)|Tabula Rasa]]'' failed to generate much money during its initial release, despite its seven-year development period. On November 24, 2008, NCSoft announced that it planned to end the live service of ''Tabula Rasa''. The servers shut down on February 28, 2009, after a period of free play from January 10 onward for existing account holders.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eu.rgtr.com/en/news_article/an_open_letter_from_general_british| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081227034006/http://eu.rgtr.com/en/news_article/an_open_letter_from_general_british | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2008-12-27  | title = Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa – An Open Letter from General British | author = Garriott, Richard | date = 2008-11-11 | access-date = 2008-11-11}}</ref>

NCSoft fired Garriot in November 2008, but publicly claimed that he left the company voluntarily, resulting in a lawsuit against them.<ref name="Purchese 2011 w546">{{cite web | last=Purchese | first=Robert | title=Garriott: what went wrong with Tabula Rasa | website=Eurogamer.net | date=2011-12-13 | url=https://www.eurogamer.net/garriott-what-went-wrong-with-tabula-rasa | access-date=2024-03-14}}</ref><ref name="Tong-hyung 2010 w321">{{cite web | last=Tong-hyung | first=Kim | title=Garriott wins $28 mil. in NCsoft lawsuit | website=Korea Times | date=2010-07-30 | url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/03/129_70538.html | access-date=2024-03-14}}</ref> In July 2010, an Austin District Court awarded Garriott US$28 million in his lawsuit against NCSoft, finding that the company did not appropriately handle his departure in 2008. In October 2011, the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]] affirmed the judgment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/appeals-court-upholds-garriotts-28-million-verdict-against-1933965.html |title=Appeals court upholds Garriott's $28 million verdict against NCsoft |author=Gaar, Brian |date=2011-10-25 |access-date=2011-10-31 |publisher=[[Austin American-Statesman]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822151726/http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/appeals-court-upholds-garriotts-28-million-verdict-against-1933965.html |archive-date=2012-08-22 }}</ref>