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Here’s another interesting news about MMORPG operations: NCsoft – a South Korea-based publisher of popular MMORPGs like Lineage 2 and Guild Wars – is seeking to act on authorized servers. The original article’s here, with the capsule version below:
Thursday 10th April/… BRIGHTON, England – NCsoft®, the world-leading, publisher of massively multiplayer online games such as Guild Wars®, Lineage® II and City of Heroes®, today announced that it was stepping up its fight against the growing menace of intellectual property theft. This action comes as a direct response to the rise of illegal online game servers throughout Eastern Europe, particularly in Greece and Russia where NCsoft’s fantasy-based online role playing game, Lineage II, is extremely popular.
The fraudulent servers in question are being used by players playing at home and in internet cafes, but such unauthorised servers often feature – or require users to download – illegally modified and potentially harmful game data, thereby changing the intended online experience.
Filed under: Industry, Play | Tagged: guild wars, lineage, mmorpg, ncsoft
Well, not quite about this post, but what do you think about the new video game ratings in Singapore? What about a post on that?
It’s a real issue that’s surprisingly taken so long for game operators to take serious action. Most MMOGs are hugely expensive to run, and can only do so on revenue generated by continued subscription. Unauthorized servers have been in existence after the first MMOGs were published, and they’re online gaming’s equivalent of intellectual property and theft.
As for the recently announced gaming rating system, I’d already written one up on Monday and scheduled to be posted this morning. It’s available now, and edited to include a new bit of news just published today.