En Masse comments on NCsoft TERA lawsuit

GW2 > Any MMO released in the last 5 years and the next 5.

(Yes I know NCsoft has nothing to do with GW2)

both games have elves - it must be true!!1!

I duuno seems like NCSoft has a shitty case. I mean Trion (rift) is made of A LOT of former EQ2 developers and SoE didn't say a word.

Also it seems like NCSoft spends more money on its legal department than it's creative departments than most companies.

@Traptz

Except for the fact that NCsoft owns ArenaNet?


@everything else

If you read the public legal document, it states that NCsoft assets were to have been removed from TERA, yet images extremely similar to L3 concept art are still being used for promotional use. There are even side by side image comparisons in the document.

Now that a release date has been confirmed, there is intent to sell in a competing market using "stolen copyright material."

Guess we'll all see how it goes.

It's quite wierd however that NCsoft just gave Aion Europe to Gameforge/Frogster who are also publishing TERA.

While a Korean court did find that some ex-NCSoft employees stole technology (code, assets, whatever) and tried to misappropriate it, it seems less clear if or not these things were directly used for TERA.

While the individuals involved were convicted, it seems that the civil action by NCSoft was eventually lost in appeals. (A lower court seemed to have agreed with NCSoft, but a higher court reversed the decision.)

From an art direction point of view, TERA does look very much like we'd expect from an NCSoft title. However, similar art styles are seen in many Korean MMOs, and I doubt NCSoft can claim they own the copyright on large-breasted stripper elves.

Mechanically, the next announced lineage game (Lineage Eternal) looks strikingly different from TERA. So I'm not sure how they are related.

I don't think that NCSoft will win it's argument in the US, though who knows? They might be paid up with the right people.

De Nile ain't a river in Egypt.

I'm not saying they stole it, but this game looks almost like a long-lost twin, one of the main reasons I'm not playing Tera.

I've already played Aion.