Bluehole Studios, the newly formed developers of TERA are to compensate NCSoft for the sum of 2 billion Wons(approximately 1,721,836.820 USD) for plagiarizing Lineage 3′s source code. This decision was made by the Seoul Central District Court after they found the former development director of Lineage 3 guilty. According to Bluehole, they are not satisfied with the judgement, and will lodge an appeal immediately.
It is still unknown whether this will affect the development of TERA, or the existence of Bluehole, and NCSoft have yet to make an official statement on the case.
The reason behind the case is the fact that Mr. Kang and Mr. Yo, former developers for Lineage 3, used some of the technologies copyrighted by NCSoft after the project’s cancellation, in their latest game – TERA.
That is too bad, I was really looking forward to TERA, every other game should benefit from whatever tech they stole from NCSoft, because it was rendering the biggest boobs in MMO ever.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:14 pmQuote
Damn, I had hoped for a decent game not released by ncsoft. Looks like ncsoft will take a hold of the game and turn it into another bot/farmer game… sad :(
February 6th, 2010 at 8:44 amQuote
PLEASE ENFORCE THE EULA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 10th, 2010 at 10:52 amQuote
Why don’t you have the decency to use a damn web converter for curency?
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:26 am2000000000 WON = 415420.27 USD (or around it)
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because you fail at typing apparently as my attempt to convert it with latest rate yields
1,689,474 USD.
did it never strikes you as odd and something to be double checked that 2 BILLION won could translate to less than a million USD in your statement?
August 14th, 2010 at 7:07 pmQuote
@BtrayaL
There’s diiference between Chinese and Korean
October 24th, 2010 at 11:48 pmI guess you are smart enough to not know how to use the converter eh. GG
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[...] Originally Posted by fenix40k thats wrong. Where did you get this information? Google it and you will find a host of information on it. The case against Bluehole Studios was so solid it held up in court and the TERA devs were sued for Plagiarism of Lineage 3 source code.. [...]
November 18th, 2010 at 5:17 amQuote
@BTrayaL
2000000000 South Korean Won(s) = 1770005 US Dollar(s)
April 15th, 2012 at 4:14 pm1 USD = 1129.94 KRW
1 KRW = 0.000885003 USD
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