Crazed gamer Erik Estavillo drops all lawsuits

December 7, 2009, a date which will live in infamy. That’s when I named Erik Estavillo Shameful Human of the Week. He’s the guy who decided to try to sue Nintendo for blocking homebrew on the Wii, Sony for banning him from PSN, and Microsoft for the red ring of death. Somewhere along the way, this plaintiff gone mad apparently added the likes of IGN, NBC, Kotaku, SarcasticGamer, and many others to his list of sue targets for making fun of him. I guess Shufflingdead didn’t try hard enough.

Well, unfortunately, Erik has run into health issues due to all the stress from waiting for his various cases to be heard. He also discovered that his celebrity experts like Bill Gates and Winona Ryder cost too much to subpoena. For all these reasons, Erik has sadly decided to drop all his lawsuits.

Honourable Erik, unwilling to admit defeat, has come up with a wealth of excuses as to why he no longer needs to sue everyone in the games industry. Sony doesn’t need to get sued because he was only going after them in defense of the kids, but joining PSN requires a parent account, so he’s no longer worried. Microsoft doesn’t charge for RRoD repairs, so they don’t need to get sued (he claims to have just found out about this). Nintendo is okay too, because there are websites that Erik can get help from to reinstall the homebrew channel. Oh, and Activision Blizzard, who Estavillo was suing for slow-walking avatars, is okay because you move faster in ghost mode in WoW

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