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HE'S OUT OF CONTROL!!! | |
This guy again??? Honestly, you'd think he'd simply stop playing video games if they caused him this much trouble. This is getting absurd!!!
If that is true, I will buy ten copies of the game...and eat my shoes... | |
If this is another stealth ad, has "Wrath" already been used? Also, how in the world could he get Marvin Lee Gore and Winona Ryder to testify? There's got to be something else behind the scenes of this whole thing. EDIT: Oh yeah. I forgot. They used the "Wrath" one on Yahtzee. | |
Someone please just control this guy. Please, he's making an arse out of himself, and wasting everyones time. | |
Okay. Now it is painfully clear that he is just trolling. Nothing more. | |
Can we just lock him up and throw him in some institution somewhere already? | |
And I will pay to watch you do that. If this is another Inferno plug, I think Sloth sounds more fitting, as this guy wants so much reward for literally not doing anything productive. | |
Not that I make a point of agreeing with insane hyper-trolls, but I'm starting to worry about how much time I've sunk into that thing. | |
God I hope he gets fined and locked away in a mental institution, where he very clearly belongs. It was just sad until I saw that he subpoenaed Winona Ryder because she shares a common interest in a book. That's the funniest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. | |
Wow. Just wow. And no that pun is not intended. | |
Christ he needs to be sent to a mental hospital now. I could understand the Sony lawsuit but taking it to 360 and Wii was just stupid and finally WoW from there he can go F*** himself. Am praying he doesn't win and I think he probably won't. | |
ANY excuse to meet Winona Ryder!! | |
Are you ****ing me? That man is a troll indeed. | |
I actually dropped my mouse off of my computer, and as it has a wire, left it hanging, like my faith in humanity. | |
I can just see a judge looking up, letting out an exasperated "You again!?" followed by an epic facepalm. | |
I'm quite curious as to how he's announcing these lawsuits when he's not about to leave his own house. Phone? Internet? Carrier pigeon? | |
This guy has got to be attention whoring or planning SOMETHING massive. No sane person can sue Sony Nintendo Microsoft AND Activision Blizzard, and hope to actually win. Those companies can get lawyers that are probably 20 times over his budget. Yeah he's planning something. | |
Hmm, I'm almost completely lost of words here. At the time of his first lawsuit, I thought he was just perhaps a little bit "off", but these two new ones, along with his recruiting of celebrities to help in his case (as well as the reasons for doing so), seem to confirm that this guy is definitely one analogue stick short of a full controller. | |
He represents himself... somehow. | |
No, it can't be the dudes and dudettes at Dante's Inferno. "Stupidity" is, sadly, not a sin. But anyway, fuck this kid. | |
reeeeetarded! | |
I love this Estavillo person, he is clearly the greatest mind of the 21st century. This Boy has made me laugh more than any other comedian, think harder than any intellectual, People like him make like worth the hassle. Seriously, I want to meet this guy and shake his hand... I wonder what's next for him? This will be him soon. I salute you Erik Estavillo. | |
there should be a law that states that your lawsuit has to have an ACTUAL REASON not some bullshit about a game not being fun. that guy is sueing(spelling?) them just to make money so the fat, lazy bastard doesn't have to work to make money like all of us HAVE to do!!! I say and hope he's going to jail! | |
It was at this point that I burst into hysterics and woke up my flat mate in the adjacent room.
It was written in a previous article that he self represents. Seriously, the mentally impaired guy who requires MMOGs, PSN and LIVE to interact is self-representing himself in a court room. This isn't even a court case. It's a farce. Blizzard could send the intern they get to make coffee to appear in court and still win in less than a minute. | |
I thought there was a law against that kind of thing | |
Can someone just slap this stupid motherfucker in a straight jacket and drop his ass off at the looney bin and put an end to his wasting of taxpayers money on baseless lawsuits. Seriously! Worst kind of attention whore ever, we need to just ignore him and he will go away. (although that didn't quite work for Jack Thompson, but people willing/able to leave their house are slightly more formidable than panicky basement geeks with a fear of crowds) | |
That's it! Someone please go "Old Yeller" on this guy. Now. | |
Hell's teeth, I never thought of that. | |
Man smack him down with "rule 11." Seriously I hope they hit him with it then send the cops over to his house and take every game and console he owns to help pay. While MS and Sony get together just this one and ban his IP from both their services. Hell take away his internet completely. | |
what?, what the fuck?, one crazy guy who sues people for banning him (i actually think that was kind of justified, the amount was a bit off) and for making bad hardware of firmwire, sorta makes sense, and suing a company because you found their product to be boring, well alright thats a little weird, getting celebrities to support your case?!. ...im gonna sue the tobacco companies and some health boards for making my pack of cigarette make me feel bad and for making it ugly, and for making me one of the most hated persons in the world, they have adds on tv designed to make people hate me. | |
Oh my good Lord he's gone absolutly nutswecan'tACTUALLYlethimdothisAUUUUUUUUUUUGH! Just... no. Go sue Microsoft and see what happens. | |
idk maybe there is but yet maybe there isn't. but still if there is i praise it, if there isn't i'll make it! DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!! | |
This begins to look veryyyyy fake indeed. How did he manage to gather support from a musician and an actor and convince them to be witnesses? Why is he asking so much money for petty things? Does he have a grand plan? Damn, am I thinking this too much? | |
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Agoraphobe Sues Activision Over "Hurtful" World of Warcraft
The crazy-ass bastard who sued Sony over a PlayStation Network ban and then launched suits against Microsoft and Nintendo has fired one last litigational salvo: He's suing Activision Blizzard because World of Warcraft isn't fun enough.
The story of Erik Estavillo should be familiar to all of us by now: The agoraphobic gamer filed a lawsuit against Sony in July for banning him from the PlayStation Network for "inappropriate behavior" while playing Resistance: Fall of Man and then last week began a pair of sequel lawsuits against Microsoft and Nintendo for the Red Ring of Death and the 4.3 update to the Wii firmware respectively. But that's not the end of it; today he announced his "final lawsuit," filed against Activision Blizzard because World of Warcraft isn't fun enough.
I make that point twice because although it may sound like a joke, it's not. Estavillo's complaint essentially breaks down like this: Blizzard charges too much money for World of Warcraft, a problem exacerbated by the fact that the game doesn't let people move around fast enough until they've sunk enough time and money into it to buy a mount or a "teleportation stone." But mentally ill people who rely on MMOGs as their primary form of entertainment and contact with the outside world have a tendency to die when they're deprived of them and since Estavillo himself is mentally ill and doesn't want to end up like all the other dead MMOGers out there, he wants the game "fixed."
Oh, and he wants a million bucks in punitive damages "for creating a game which hurts gamers rather than being a bridge of entertainment for them to pursue happiness."
But wait, there's more! To support his case, Estavillo has subpoenaed both Martin Lee Gore of Depeche Mode and actress Winona Ryder to testify. "[Gore] will be a witness on 'alienation' and the ties it has to World of Warcraft, since he himself has been known to be sad, lonely, and alienated as can be seen in the songs he writes," he explained in an email to The Escapist.
"[Ryder] and I share a common interest in the book Catcher in the Rye, which is all about alienation," he continued. "She will be a witness that can explain the significance of alienation in Catcher in the Rye (since she bought one of the original printed copies at an auction) and will also testify to how alienation in the book can tie to alienation in real life/video games such as World of Warcraft."
It's quite clear at this point that one of two things is happening here: Either Estavillo is a total nutcase - not just agoraphobic, OCD and all the rest, but completely out of his tree - or these lawsuits are a buildup to some sort of unfathomable attention-whoring punchline. It's a dangerous game; according to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, people who knowingly bring a frivolous lawsuit before the courts can be slapped with some pretty hefty fines.
And yet... Is there a third possibility that we're overlooking? Could all of this in fact be another stealth ad from the wild and crazy guys at the Dante's Inferno marketing team? Is it sloth? Will it be greed? Is it possible that this series of insane lawsuits will turn out to be the most insidious advertisement ever? Of course not - although as explanations go, it makes about as much sense as anything else involved in this case. (And if it is, I'm totally buying the game just for the sheer awesomeness of the marketing.)
Estavillo's complaint can be read here (page 1, page 2) while the subpoenas, just to prove that they do in fact exist, are here (Gore, Ryder).
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