Posted 4/10/2008 at 9:21 AM By GamingShogun
NCSoft is on the attack, taking on the task of hunting down illegal game servers across Eastern Europe. The illegal servers allow gamers to play popular NCSoft titles for free (or reduced rates), while also having optional third-party hacks and/or mods depending on which server a player chooses to join.
Official Release:
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 unauthorized servers often feature – or require users to download – illegally modified and potentially harmful game data, thereby changing the intended online experience.
NCsoft has a proven track record in combating illegal servers, having worked with the FBI in November 2006 to shut down a substantial unofficial Lineage II server run by US-based website, L2Extreme.com. Following multiple raids across cities throughout the US, L2Extreme’s fraudulent servers – which claimed to support 50,000 active users – were taken offline, as was the L2Extreme.com website.
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