TERA Developers Condemned for Plagiarizing Lineage 3

MMOCrunch reports: 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.

[Go Gaming Giant]

glad to hear it, thats bs to steal another games code.

[PinkUni]

they separated from nc soft to make their own games and they took the code that they themselves developed on

its like copyrighting a disney artist's style of art. that's just stupid and its almost like saying you own the person.

they did this to eliminate competition and they've succeeded

[Baka-akaB]

??? Employées were paid to develop a game and allegedly gave its code source , to company who then developped Tera from it , again alledgely .

All of it apparently stemming from a key figure of L3 being fired . They could just have kept working on l3 (basically tera anyway) or at least started something new , even ressembling , without l3's code source wich isnt theirs to distribute .

Some of those guys werent even there for every lineage , so it's hardly some robin hood attempt at reclaiming your stuff . More like anger and money issues with hardly a way to say who is the liar .
Just like Flagship studios did Hellgate and Mythos without actually stealing from diablo

[Baka-akaB]

I meant unlike Flagships Studios .

It's obvious both of their game were copies of diablo but still original work , and most of all without previous code from diablo .

[omicron009]

seems like a open and closed case. not sure what their going to appeal.

[LukeA]

And it could have been avoided too.

[omicron009]

just seems like a stupid thing to do

[Sangria]

Somehow it reminded me a two years old case where a game plagiarized famous games (Thief, Oblivion, Diablo 2,...) and developers told they entirely created it before retracting.
http://www.n4g.com/pc/News-...
http://www.n4g.com/pc/News-...
http://www.n4g.com/industry...
(check alternative links if original stories are dead)

[RaymondM]

Whoa, shenanigans to them for stealing. Good article

[Murgatroyd7]

I can understand why they did it, but still...it wasn't a very smart move.