Lineage 3: Source Code Pinched

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Korea's largest game developer NCsoft is currently under police investigation - again - this time over the fact that a large chunk of code for upcoming MMORPG title Lineage III has, well, been stolen. Not only that, it's apparently been sold to a major Japanese game company... and it looks like it was an inside job.

 

Seven former NCsoft employees are currently under suspicion. They left the Korean firm earlier this year, and in a later job interview with the Japanese company, showed off the software they'd been working on. It's believed the technology may have been copied during the demonstration.

 

Calculating the current worth of the Lineage IP (sales over 1.6 billion US$ for both Lineage I and Lineage II) and combining it with the current subscriber base (more than 1.5 million subscribers worldwide) - damage value for the lost data is estimated to be over 1 billion US$.

 

It doesn't stop there. These are the same NCsoft (former) employees who are considered to have something to do with leaking the program design of Lineage III by email or USB disk last September.

 

NCsoft hasn't been a happy place to work for a while now, the company's been suffering since sacking one of it's senior game developers who apparently displayed "poor leadership skills". Apparently those skills were so poor he lead most of the 90-person dev team to follow him out the door, and it looks like some of them took some souvenirs on the way.

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Personally i want to say that is the reason why there are many MMORPGs these days that looks much similar like L2. NCS0ft is not amused! And if NC scrap L2 then will be the end.

 

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[GrisoM]

Yhea koreans employs did it   >.>  <.<

 

NCsoft hasn't been a happy place to work for a while now, the company's been suffering since sacking one of it's senior game developers who apparently displayed "poor leadership skills". Apparently those skills were so poor he lead most of the 90-person dev team to follow him out the door, and it looks like some of them took some souvenirs on the way.

 

Hahahahahahahahahah

 

that senior developer took real Expensive souvenirs ;P

 

What can i found in black market? Nuclear bombs - Antrax - L3 Source Code AHAHAHAH

 

[sltbnjr]

The first thing that comes to mind is welcome to last year

 

this happened in early 2007

[Wyratrux]

L3 Source...o yeahh.... with professionals client editor we can re-edit the whole l2 :)) + if u get the l3 source you can start making l3 servers and a lot of things :D

[X70]

so I'm guessing they have to start all over again? roflmao.

 

in a way im excited for l3, but im probably not going to be happy readjusting to l3's gameplay, im too used to l2 -.-

[Deanok]

... omg thats just weird... I dont get how some1 could sell that game to JAPANESE?! WHAT THE -beep-! ARE THEY CRAZY SELLING THAT THE BEST GAME TO Yellow people? ... I'm not a rasist but its really bad selling that to them. Anyway, they should make completely new L3 so like other classes, rases and skills so there can be like no Sleep but Dream... thats just better dont u think? I mean Dreaming its different then Sleeping. So skill Dream will make them sit for like 20 seconds or something... XD

[Jαkє]

/old

 

that happened 1 year ago

[Lain]

Yep, that's old...

 

And I guess people who stole it were Russians :)

[Dillion20ghet]

Maybe they shouldn't of fired a guy with 90 followers then. Dip sh1ts..

[Blane]

The thing is that many games are getting stolen in the last years.I personally think that's this in normal.In fact money guide them all.

 

Now we shall wait for an other company to publish L3? XD

 

-Blane

[Nairoby]

Well now we will have a lot of mmorpg games that basically are same thing, only have different names -.-

[sagivstern]

lol... that is so much ownage... but to think Lineage 3 is already in advanced development that u can actually steal something... im impressed... and over 1 billion WTF!!!

[Reloop]

Spies again?? sorce code stolen again?? they have some very good employees there in ncsoft. Maybe the have to pay them better :o

[dejfe]

... omg thats just weird... I dont get how some1 could sell that game to JAPANESE?! WHAT THE -beep-! ARE THEY CRAZY SELLING THAT THE BEST GAME TO Yellow people? ... I'm not a rasist but its really bad selling that to them. Anyway, they should make completely new L3 so like other classes, rases and skills so there can be like no Sleep but Dream... thats just better dont u think? I mean Dreaming its different then Sleeping. So skill Dream will make them sit for like 20 seconds or something... XD

 

Why not to Japanes , power of money is cruel :)

[Live]

lol this is so old maybe like ~1year :P so why post here 1 year ago ? :P