Police are investigating a suspected theft of software code for online game “Lineage III” which is being developed by Korea’s largest game maker NCsoft.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.
The former NCsoft employees are also under suspicion of having leaked the program design of “Lineage III” by email or portable disk last September.
According to police and industry insiders, the game company has suffered from an internal management problem since a senior game developer was fired for poor leadership skills.
But the sacking only led to greater problems for the company, since most of developer’s 90-member team quit with their chief.
An NCsoft spokesman estimated the potential damage at over W1 trillion (US$1=W927) considering that the combined sales of “Lineage I” and “Lineage II” topped W1.5 trillion.
May 7, 2007 at 9:35 am |
This sound really bad to be honest. IMO now they start developing almost from whole beggin
June 22, 2007 at 6:20 pm |
Olá for you… I wait that the L3 surpasses all the L2… Already I looked at the videos of the L3 and liked very… It would like that you many forts placed rare swords in animals… asked for this why all they go to join itself to kill… and this is the good one of the L2.all if they join with one same objective… Tchau:)))
July 5, 2007 at 4:45 pm |
Lineage ]l[ Server Mucho Bien!!!!!!!!!!
December 13, 2007 at 5:49 pm |
whe’re can i get l3 to download?i need it please tell me skype:homepage7
January 4, 2008 at 12:18 am |
plz send me one email…
with one link too lineage3
thx very thx
April 5, 2008 at 9:00 am |
I think this is good since now they can start using a better engine that they built themselves.
June 5, 2008 at 11:05 am |
Where i can download l3? plz send me a link of l3 update thx ;]
June 5, 2008 at 11:07 am |
Where i can download l3? plz send me a link of l3 updater to my e-mail TOMAX_112@one.lt thx ;]
November 10, 2008 at 8:31 pm |
I cant wait till lineage 3 me and friends played lineage and lineage 2 cant wait for 3 hopefully comes out as soon as possible