Lineage III Source Code Stolen?

Posted by Zonk on Monday April 30, 2007 @08:59AM from the a-whole-world-down-the-tubes dept.

Shack News and the Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo are reporting that sourcecode for the MMOG Lineage III may have been stolen. As the third Massively Multiplayer game in a huge-selling South Korean series released by publisher NCSoft, over a billion dollars may be lost as a result of this theft. "The Seoul Metropolitan Police said Wednesday that seven former NCsoft employees are suspected of having sold the technology to a major Japanese game company. The seven left the Korean firm in February and allowed the Japanese company to review the software during a job interview. Police believe that the technology might have been copied during the demonstration."

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Re:Uh by tzhuge · 2007-04-30 10:06 · Score: 1, Redundant

Considering we're talking about an MMO, I think it's quite possible that someone could use the source to create malicious exploits. It may even be possible to make that MMO completely unplayable (steal player accounts?). Either way, I think the idea is that the company will have to make significant code changes or risk losing a lot of customers. Between the extra dev/QA time and the delayed time to market, making the changes doesn't come cheap either.