Ye, PLUS, Richard Garriot became a Space Monkey (6th space tourist apparently), so he left TR for 'other interests' and shortly thereafter the shutdown announcement was made by the devs.
I wonder if he took all the DNA samples (time capsule) with him when he went into space? It was a thing that they did last year where people got DNA kits to supply some DNA samples, like saliva rubs, etc and post it back to them to go up into space with him in a capsule.
