- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 18, 2009 15:18 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Fraud, Gamania, Law, Lucent Heart, MMORPG, Money, Taiwan

MMORPG Lucent Heart’s operator Gamania has announced its intent to pursue unprecedentedly harsh measures against those who wilfully abused a recent item replication bug on its servers.
As well as terminating their accounts and those of their entire clan, Gamania vows to pursue criminal charges of fraud against the dupers, with guilty offenders possibly facing ten year prison sentences.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Apr 9, 2009 20:15 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Bizarre, MMORPG, Monster Hunter, Otaku, Panchira, Pantsu, RPG

This (genuine) page from a specialist Monster Hunter magazine purports to impart “The Correct Way of Taking Screenshots”, strangely subtitled “What a Pantsu-ful World.”
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The latest threat to stable dictatorship in China is not America or Russia, but the insidious menace of massively multiplayer gaming.
The Chinese government is terrified by the results of research which shows the nation’s youth turning into legions of gold farming NEETs with no realistic prospect of filling the nation’s factories, and is calling for a clamp down on the decadent gamers.
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A housewife has been prosecuted for accessing her friend’s MMORPG account and stripping her character of items for sale online.
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Linden Labs, makers of Second Life, recently announced the introduction of an adults only area in its virtual realm, or more plausibly, it has introduced a non-adults only zone into the polygonal sex simulator which is Second Life.
With that announcement comes a tacit admission that much of the activities that characterize Second Life are of a debauched and lascivious nature.
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The Chinese government has once again maintained its ban on hugely popular MMORPG World of Warcraft’s popular expansion, “Wrath of the Lich King”, despite strenuous efforts on the part of the publisher to comply with its demands.
Wrath of the Lich King apparently possesses a number of features which the Chinese government finds objectionable, or which do not meet regulatory standards.
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Anti-virus and malware software “Virus Killer” not only manages to spice up its packaging with moe illustrations, it also comes with a pair of special items for Japanese MMORPG “Tokimeki Fantasy Latale“, a rather unique promotional combination if ever there was one.
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Nearly a thousand players of Final Fantasy XI, apparently some 1% of the total global server population, have been punished after an item duplication bug spread across the servers, tempting many into exploits which are explicitly forbidden by all MMORPGs.
The offences of 550 were so egregious that Square Enix felt they had to be permanently banned outright, without recourse, whilst another 400 were suspended temporarily for lesser offences.
One high level account deleted is reputed to have contained ultra-rares (“relics”) worth a putative $50,000 or more (although these numbers are of course contingent upon a sale actually being made).
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Taiwanese anime fans have uncovered plagiarism of truly staggering proportions in the Chinese language MMORPG “女神ONLINE ~NORN SABER ONLINE~”, by “developer” Chinese Gamer International. It looks as though just about every single element of the game, from CG to sprites, and even TV commercials, is tainted with plagiarism.
Sadly, it seems the uniquely Chinese approach to copyright we have come to be familiar with is not restricted to the mainland…
In terms of the breadth and brazenness of its plagiarism, Norn Saber Online is undoubtedly in a class of its own:
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This is by Urakanda (actually he gives 厂ダ / Kanda as his name, and Ura-KandA as his site, but nobody seems to take any notice), a rather original artist whose entertaining role reversals and monster raep, coupled with rather vivid art, are certainly worth taking a look at.
His crowning achievement is this image, in my opinion:
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Oppai MMORPG Lineage II has been accumulating figures recently, naturally starting with the busty and under-clothed Dark Elf females, but lately extending even to lowly humans, as we see here in the form of the Human Mage.
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A lady who married a man virtually in the popular massively multiplayer game MapleStory was so furious at him unilaterally divorcing her that she logged in using his details and deleted him. Police then arrested her for unauthorised access to his account.
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