14 DAY TRIAL // Erick Estavillo is a gamer that is hastily becoming a very infamous image in the gaming community, but more so in the legal one. Promoting the stereotype by which video gamers have flown over the cuckoo's nest once too many times, the gamer has already sued some of the biggest companies in the industry and has made some truly far-fetched accusations. Things started when Sony banned him from Resistance: The Fall of Man for acting like a troll and Estavillo decided that there was a lawsuit hidden somewhere in there. Sony was indeed dragged to court, but the case was dismissed, and is currently being appealed by the gamer.
Later lawsuits followed, as the young man sued Nintendo next, and then Blizzard and its World of Warcraft, for making him depressive and infusing him with suicidal tendencies. Now, the confused gamer has decided to sue Microsoft and the Xbox 360. After suffering a failure of his console, he has decided that the stress caused by this event was enough to start a lawsuit, and, even more, he subpoenaed Bill Gates himself.
The subpoena was obtained by GamePolitics too, and it demands that Gates must provide "documents pertaining to the true and relative number of actual Xbox 360 units that have been fixed by Microsoft over the past 3 years." Estavillo also demands that exact numbers be given regarding how many of Microsoft's 360 consoles have broken down over the years, but also the exact number of Xbox Live users that were banned for piracy during the 11/28/2008 - 11/28/2009 period. And, as things go, it would be safe to assume that his name would be found amongst those banned.
In his previous lawsuits, Estavillo had subpoenaed other famous people, like Martin Lee Gore from Depeche Mode and actress Winona Ryder, for his World of Warcraft lawsuit. Maybe this is his way of trying to meet his famous celebrities, but it's unlikely that he'll win their affection with a subpoena. In any case, it seems that he matched his quota for lawsuits for a while, and he said that he didn't plan to sue any more companies. Maybe he'll move on to separate individuals in the future.