Serial Suer Drops All Lawsuits

Austin MacKenzie

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Serial Suer Drops All Lawsuits



Erik Estavillo, best known for suing gaming companies for travesties such as his World of Warcraft character not walking fast enough to justify the monthly expenses, has decided to call it quits.

Estavillo has a long record of litigation against a number of large gaming corporations and celebrities for reasons some might call "frivolous". In July, he sued Sony for banning his PlayStation Network account, which he relied on for socialization due to suffering from agoraphobia, a fear of crowds. In November, he sued Microsoft after his Xbox 360 suffered the infamous "red ring of death," as well as Nintendo for a recent update that disabled a homebrew Wii Channel that he used to unlock characters in Mario Kart Wii.

The suits failed to take into account niggling details such as the fact that Estavillo was banned for behavior, the "red ring of death" is fixable at no cost to the consumer, and there were a number of updates available to re-enable his homebrew channel, but Estavillo has never shown much interest in the details of his case. Furthermore, many of his cases were outright dismissed, though until now that hadn't stopped him from trying.

In his decision to drop the cases, he cited the stress of the long wait for his cases to resolve, which in turn led to his doctor advising he walk away. Estavillo also cited panic disorder and Crohn's disease as health issues keeping him from following the lawsuits to completion. Also, a number of changes were made that apparently appeased Estavillo.

The fact that he couldn't afford the process server fees to serve people like Bill Gates and Winona Rider probably helped the decision along as well. Estavillo has since dropped off the map: All his sites and blogs have been obliterated from the internet. Whether we've truly heard the last of this man remains to be seen.

Source: <a href=http://gamepolitics.com/2010/02/02/estavillo-drops-all-suits>Game Politics

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KeyMaster45

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Estavillo has since dropped off the map: All his sites and blogs have been obliterated from the internet. Whether we've truly heard the last of this man remains to be seen.
Queue the zombie hand rising from the grave and a "THE END?" scrawled across the screen. Crazy of this caliber just doesn't go away....it only waits while it gathers more crazy to dish out to the world.
 

ShadowKatt

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I'm not sure what to make of this. Does this count as a win for us or a strike? How will the media play off of this? That gamers are a bunch of moronic pushovers?

I mean, that what HE is, but the media has a tendancy to make blanket statements out of examples.
 

Gigaguy64

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Good.
Ton's of my systems have broken and there are many things that i think are wrong or broken with the games i play but, you dont see me complaining and using mental illness as a excuse.
 

TheNumber1Zero

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His Lawsuits were entertaining, but otherwise a waste of time for the judge, jury, and everyone else.

Here's hoping he stays off the radar.
 

delet

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So he finally woke up one day and said, "Wait... what am I doing?" then? Took him damned long enough.
 

Asturiel

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He has an interesting way of being stupid. Very interesting. It's a very good thing people don't take him seriously.
 

Gildan Bladeborn

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I'm still not entirely convinced he was real (seriously, how can anyone be that crazy and yet so newsworthy?). And the notion that it was all somehow a bizarre PR stunt for Dante's Inferno is just too funny to let go of, ha ha!
 

maddawg IAJI

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It's about time I guess. Not like the cases would have been taken seriously anyways.
 

BonerMacTittyPants

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Quadtrix said:
We can only hope he got hit by a car on his way out of the courtroom.
Why yes, let's all forget he has mental issues and needs treatment, and just wish for his death.

How civil of you.
 

Monshroud

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Good Riddance! I'm sorry the guy has some mental / health issues, but those issues are not the problems of the gaming community. Good to know someone talked him into dropping all this crap and to stop wasting our Court Systems time.