Indie Lineage 2 Servers Shut Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @03:59AM from the off-the-farm dept.

Gamasutra reports on efforts by NCSoft and the FBI to shut down independently-run Lineage 2 servers. The servers, run by an outfit called 'L2Extreme' were making a profit off of the unauthorized MMOG operation. Gamasutra had the chance to talk with FBI agent Thompson from Austin office. From the article: "Regarding the Lineage II server code, Thompson explained that it was 'really not determined' who had originally made it available, but the L2Extreme creators were 'certainly someone who was using [NCSoft's proprietary code] — that is at least part of the investigation.'"

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Re:Indie? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-11-21 05:33 · Score: -1, Redundant

no one needs to 'steal' the server code... lineage2 is based un a fairly unmodified Unreal engine. ncsoft's own servers were dumping the entire Unreal mod called 'lineage2' down to clients for years. A few people realised this and fired up their own servers.. not exactly a hard thing to do, if you have half a brain cell...

the only thing 'new' here is that someone tried to make some money off it and now are getting beaten by ncsoft & fbi.