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Originally posted by SantaClaws48

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Originally posted by Sentime

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Originally posted by SantaClaws48

And tbh, the only thing private servers have going for them is that they are free and have better xp rates. Everything else sucks.

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That's a matter of perspective.  I think they're better because there's a live person behind most toons, unlike retail where one person might be controlling up to 40-50 characters at the same time. Most of the quelity servers won't even allow you to autofollow.

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LOL. Botting is pretty prominent on private servers. It's not hard to bot and it's not hard to stop your bots from being on auto follow.

I have yet to meet any single person who is controlling 40-50 characters at once.

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Originally posted by SantaClaws48

And tbh, the only thing private servers have going for them is that they are free and have better xp rates. Everything else sucks.

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Originally posted by Kyleran

Ugh..reading the rationalizations by people here for running Private servers or illegally downloading music made my head hurt. 

To all of you who support this.  The taking of intellectual or physical property without paying for it is wrong. There is no gray here..its a black and white issue.  No amount of reasoning on your part changes the fact that those who do it are criminals. (according to the laws of the US).  Yes, that's right, I'm calling you criminals. Don't like it? Don't steal other peoples stuff.

And don't bring legal arguments in on this.  You all know in your hearts you are stealing... you just have no problem with it because it suits your selfish nature.  But if you were a person who actually created things for a living you'd understand more the error of your ways.

 

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Originally posted by Blaad

4. Why do you think NCsoft is enforcing the TOS at the moment? Do you think its a permanent change of policy or a temporary action to accomplish some short term goal?  If its a temporary change what is motivating them to enforce the TOS now?

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Originally posted by thunderbolt1

Why does everyone on this site resort to name calling on this site when things start to get hairy??? What image? this is a web forum.

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Originally posted by Sovrath

All of the work put into L2 is the work of NC and it's developers. They have the right to give give the client away, charge for it, whatever.

It is not the right of some people who just don't like what they've done to take it and change it and then take donations to keep it running.

It is NC's right to be a sucky company, great company, etc. If you don't like it don't play.

Cripple the software industry?

If and when you make a game or software package you have the right to distribute it anyway you want. And NC has the right to distribute their game (read: THEIR GAME) any way they want.

It's not the intellectual property of the makers of the private servers. That is it. Cut and dried.

 

 

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Originally posted by liddokun

The operators of L2extreme brought it upon themselves when they tried to cheat/defraud NCsoft. They didn't spend millions of dollars designing and making Lineage2 so they have no right to the game. What they did was simply theft of the source code of the servers, and they simply got what they deserved. Maybe a few years jail time and a few thousand dollars fine would teach some people not to steal.

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Originally posted by Jukan
Game isn't dead! Don't be angry that you are missing the new online sensation known as Lineage II. 100k active subs in NA and EU...pretty good split over 10 servers... 

If the game was dead, they wouldn't have just released a new server. How many MMOs do you know that after being out for 3 years suddenly in the third year release a new server because game populations are high? That doesn't sound like dying, comon people use ur head.

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Originally posted by Fonzieguy
If i wanna be a mage I HAVE to be a female, if I want to play as the elves once again, I HAVE to be female. 

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Originally posted by little_faz
I'm considering trying this game, should I try it?

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