NCSoft Drops GameGuard From Western Launch of Aion

chalkyj writes "NCSoft has announced that they will be dropping GameGuard from the western launch of their upcoming MMORPG, Aion. The flawed Korean anti-cheat software has been heavily criticized for employing root-kit like techniques and conflicting with many hardware configurations. The final straw is thought to have been the stability issues experienced by players during open beta and the community outcry it caused. The decision makes Aion, which recently announced over 400,000 western pre-orders, a real contender in the western MMO market."

Comments

That's nice

[MacAnkka]

A company is actually listening what their customers have to say? Thats quite refreshing to hear during these days.

Re:Poor Summary

[Savior_on_a_Stick]

It's not DRM.
It has nothing to do with DRM.

It was used previously in FreeToPlay games like 2moons to prevent cheating via game hacks.

It failed utterly in that regard and was dropped.

If Aion was relying on it as an anti hack measure - and "may introduce it later" - the game is already doomed.

Re:Awesome

[geekboy642]

Except that Blizzard has made their own DRM/antihack software invisible to almost all of their players, and that's the important difference. Anecdotally, I've never met anyone who was unable to play because of it. I've met several unwilling to play because of a healthy paranoia about spyware, but even as spyware it's quite technically competent.