For thoose of you who have't heared this yet here it is:
This post was made by: Trom in official forums
As a "valued customer", I feel a more in depth explination needs to be made from the K2 staff.
Courthouse News Service Entertainment Law
After reading this article, It appears that we are being mislead and misinformed.
Lawsuit Summary - MGame Corporation v. K2 Network Inc.
I will leave this here to your responses. I am excessivly concerned on the following issues listed on the report:
K2 employees allegedly copied user and billing information while changing server passwords to lock Mgame out of its own servers.
The alleged intrusion caused the game to blackout for several days and K2 had to offer discounts to appease customers who complained about their inability to access "Knight Online."
Mgame claims it has suffered irreparable harm by losing control of its reputation as K2 has continually done business with Turkish resellers, where "Knight Online" is most popular.
Mgame says it has initiated arbitration proceedings and needs a court order to stop K2 from operating the game.
this guy makes a pretty good explonation:
"At the height of the dispute, Mgame claims its surveillance cameras at a California server facility caught K2 employees copying data from servers that host the game and house its source code."
That's the story. K2 employees stole source code and had acsess to game data base. Then what happened? Let's see the story together.
First Step; K2 is the publisher of game. Advertisements on game laucher belong to them. What do you see on laucher(especially the Turkish players)? Advertisement of MTC game.
Second Step; MTC's office is in Cyprus. They have a member working for them in Istanbul(Turkey) named ''beterr'' (Ares players probably know him)
Third Step; K2 makes business with MTC. After stoling source code, K2 edited items and gave them to MTC to sell. MTC used ''beterr'' to sell those items since he is in Istanbul and it is easy for Turkish players to reach him.
Forth Step; ''beterr'' and MTC uses same bank accounts. That proves they work together. Knight Online Beterr Pazar Alan // Garanti Bankas?, Türkiye ?? Bankas?, Teb Bankas?, Ziraat Bankas?, Hsbc Bankas?, Ing Bank, Western Union, Akinsoftgames Banka Hesaplar? - Akinsoftgames // OyunFor
Final Step; For each server K2 and MTC made a profit approximately 40000$ and we will learn the exact price at the end of this court since the bank accounts probably would be investigated.
And this info is from court content;
"Furthermore, Mgame claims it has suffered irreparable harm by losing control of its reputation as K2 has continually done business with Turkish resellers, where "Knight Online" is most popular."
Information about this can be found here:
Mgame vs K2 - GamersFirst Forums
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