Property within the game without being modified is changing hands for an outside transaction cost is all. No copyright or trademark laws are being violated through gold selling or even account selling. Their only recourse is the ban the accounts and tell players it's "illegal" - under their rules - but not illegal in the legal sense of the word. If you own a copy of the game and you are generating resources in the game nothing prevents you from selling those resources that you effectively generated for a profit. This is also in a way the same argument why they can't sue gold sellers to shut them down. I don't recall ever getting cease and desist letters. I used to host a private server for Diablo 2 and had about 500 accounts registered, I own a physical copy even after decided to no longer support the game, so solution was to host my own. Blizzard did not shut them down - I suspect it is because of the ownership issue. DOTA effectively spun off into DOTA2, while using Blizzard assets, development and trademarks for the initial run. If this was the case, Blizzard would have shut down DOTA long ago as DOTA was profiting off WC2Editor and third party scripting for a game within the WC3 system that used Blizzard trademarks and everything - but claimed copyfight for DOTA's creator. It does not mean you cannot host your own server, run your own settings and are forced to play on retail. NC owns the trademark which means you can't develop something that is a copy and or whatever. Private for profit servers are somewhat more questionable, but I suspect the same argument can be made that owners of a copy of the game can host a game for others to play with. Because the game is only hosted online does not change the calculus that the copy is still owned by us and nothing stops us from doing a 127.0.0.1 to host a server to play the game solo. My understanding is that if we bought a physical copy, the game is effectively owned by us. As I will no longer able to access their service (which allows access), it would be an illegal practice to deny me this, wouldn't it? If I am not proven wrongly, I'm just going to assume that when Aion is shut down in NA that I am able to host my own servers in order to continue to be able to access the goods I paid for. What I want to know is what do NCsoft plan to do for the people they will have shafted when the servers shut down?Ĭonsumer protection laws in my country are very specific, very good to the consumer, and are automatically agreed upon by producers when they decide to sell things here. In the scheme of things, by going free to play AND denying users the 'right' to access private servers, NCsoft have taken away the value inherent of the goods that I purchased, and have not ensured access to that good in the future. Aion no longer requires a subscription to access Aion now no longer requires a CD key to create an accountĤ. Aion used to cost money to access, requiring a subscriptionģ. Aion cost money to purchase in the beginning, requiring a CD key to create an accountĢ. Now, I am a little confused as to where Aion sits on this list.ġ. Years ago, I bought a physical copy of Aion (and payed subscription fees), before it became free to play. When the Aion servers are shut down, the ability to play the game for which I paid for is taken away, as supposedly playing on private servers is a breach of the EULA.
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