Destination Games was an American

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company created in April 2000 by Richard Garriott, Robert Garriott and Starr Long, following their departure from Origin Systems. ("Destination" is a play on "Origin", the company the Garriotts founded nearly two decades earlier.) Destination was founded in

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to develop massively multiplayer online role-playing games. At E3 2001, Richard Garriott announced a partnership making Destination the

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headquarters of

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n MMORPG giant NCSOFT. As NCSOFT Austin, Destination has mainly focused on developing and supporting the North American version of NCSOFT's '' Lineage'' games. In 2007 Destination Games released its first game, '' Tabula Rasa'', a

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MMORPG. The game did not sell as well as was hoped, Richard Garriott left NCSOFT in 2008, and the game service closed in February 2009. The Destination Games website was taken down when NCsoft moved its United States headquarters from Austin to

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—calling it NCSOFT West—in 2008. NCSOFT Austin employed five people to run the casual MMOG '' Dungeon Runners'', but announced in 2009 that support for this game will be ending in early 2010 due to low subscription numbers. As of October 2009, NCSOFT employs about 150 people in the former Destination Games office in Austin mainly working in server operations, quality assurance, and customer support for various NCSOFT MMO titles, however development operations have moved completely to other NCSSOFT subsidiaries on the West Coast. The trademark ''Destination Games'' remains a property of NCSOFT.

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