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: Game Politics
