Lineage III programmers suspected of selling game code to Japanese game company
Game industry news from South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo:
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.
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An NCsoft spokesman estimated the potential damage at over W1 trillion (over 1 billion US dollars) considering that the combined sales of “Lineage I” and “Lineage II” topped W1.5 trillion.
No word yet in the English language press about which Japanese game company was involved in the incident. Anyone have any details on this case?
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I’m not a big fan of Lineage (it’s just a big time sink imo), but I’d love to know what company may have gotten the code.
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