Erik Estavillo, the rather unsavory* individual we had the “pleasure” of having on our show a few weeks back, has dropped all his lawsuits against… well, everyone. According to GamePolitics, Estavillo dropped all his lawsuits because of a combination of the ill-effects of the stress he was under while waiting for each case to be heard, his doctors advising him to stop with this nonsense, and the single most important reason anyone does anything: money.
Apparently serving Winona Ryder, Martin Lee Gore, Lady Sovereign, Bill Gates and Krayzie Bone with legal papers costs some serious scratch.
In addition to citing these health reasons, Estavillo points to several facts that would have surely upended each of his lawsuits. Let’s look over them, shall we?
- Sony: Sued because Estavillo was banned from Resistance: Fall of Man‘s online servers after repeated trolling. Estavillo argued that Sony was stealing from him by banning him, though he acknowledges that a page now requires for a parent/master account to add accounts to a PS3. He says this addresses his concern of younger kids playing the game.
- Microsoft and Nintendo: Microsoft was sued because Estavillo received the Red Ring of Death. Nintendo was sued because of a system update, specifically a system update that blocked people from using the homebrew channel.
In other words, Nintendo was sued because Estavillo could no longer cheat.
According to Estavillo, he has just learned that Microsoft does not charge for RRoD repairs, and he has found many sites that would help him reinstall the homebrew channel, should he so decide to.
- Activision Blizzard: Sued because in-game avatars walked slow, leading to artificially inflated game times and, therefore, more subscription fees. Estavillo now says that the WoW avatars walk faster when in ghost mode (i.e. after you die).
- NBC, FOX, GameSpot, IGN, G4TV, Game Informer, 1UP, Joystiq, Kotaku, GayGamer, QJ, SarcasticGamer, MMORPG.com and DepecheMode.com: Sued for libel because they made fun of him.
It’s important to note that all of these supposed “changes” have been around since long before he ever filed his first lawsuit. Just because someone doesn’t bother to do the research and ask a few questions doesn’t mean that it isn’t there.
Either way, it seems that this is all over and after a couple of weeks Erik will fade away as just another weird, cooky footnote in the annals of gaming lore.
Or we’ll just forget about him entirely. Either way.
via GamePolitics
*Personal conjecture
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. . .I think my brain just exploded.
Addendum: Just got off the phone with Mr Estavillo. He is actually sounding in better spirits. Specifically he mentioned the crohns disease as what is hurting him the most (on top of all stresses that come from representing yourself and having a lack of cash).
I really hope that one of the judges will still take one of the cases based on the merits of whatever that case may be (obviously not the Nintendo one, but the Microsoft one wouldn’t be a bad thing to see in court).