Talk:Deathlord

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Richard Garriott question

Richard Garriott of Origin Systems believed that Deathlord unduly resembled Origin's Ultima games. He ended Origin's affiliation with EA after the company published it, and later Ultima games included a pirate character named Pirt Snikwah.[3]

What affiliation did they have with EA to begin with? He later sold his company to them years later. Dream Focus 13:10, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Origin, like many other software developers, used larger companies like EA to distribute its software to retailers. Origin ended that relationship because of Deathlord (as the cite explains), so Garriott selling the company to EA was a surprise. Ylee (talk) 14:50, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Specifically, Origin was one of the first participants in EA's affiliated label program in which EA handled distribution as well as providing some publishing and marketing support to smaller developers. This allowed smaller companies to self-publish while bolstering EA's distribution clout, important for a company that had chosen to bypass traditional distributors entirely. After this incident, Origin became an affiliated label of Broederbund instead. Indrian (talk) 15:12, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

That information should be in the Origin article. Dream Focus 15:26, 5 July 2014 (UTC)