I was about to delete this, but I don't believe there is any criminal or whatever activities, even if there might be, what would that be? We are not abusing webzen's license in EU at all and overall I see no issues, just be careful of scammer and hackers that try to phish and trick u and ur players instead
We are abusing everything there is to do with Webzen's property. If webzen really wanted to, they could take everything down. It is the same as you would open McDonald's restaurant without buying a franchise(Because Webzen actually offers you an option to become a business partner and buy rights for their game and launch it similar to franchising). whether webzen can be bothered to spend their time on poor servers like original post mentioned, by the looks of it they don't care, as bad private servers only forces players to go back to the original, which works perfectly for Webzen.
I just really would like people to understand this,running private servers and usage of emulators/someone's intellectual property is still well, pirating/stealing and in no way private servers are protected by this ''illusion'' that Webzen doesn't have rights of their own property in Europe or any other region in fact.
Well and thats the point..
even if they take us all down, we will come BACK STRONGER...
what is webzen? they are hiding behind their games and their name thats all.. sorry but they have been K.O'd since they started.
About your illusion mentioning, it does make alot of sense imo, and i know from experience that webzen does shut down OTHER THINGS but not freaking muservers! for example.. my release of my ARENA REMAKE, why would they claim copyright on my download links when i released it on that crap ?cus they cannot DO much more mate, they can only shut us down, but we can always come BACK and even stronger, its even free to come back, and thats what we are doing all the time, servers die and come back and so on, thats why its no worth it so their claims COST MORE TIME and EFFORT than us making the server which is unworthy so i think everyone should just keep doing what u doing enjoy it and if they try to put us down, we know what to do and that wont happen ever! unless they detect a special server that is really really worth to kill.
Please come with some research about that 'illusion thing' cuz i wanna know why is it an illusion suddenly...there is IGCN/XTEAM/MUEM../ all these teams selling 'files' but providing the same freakin client that webzen does with some patching and cracking thats also illegal, but why don't they do anything about it when we patch main.exe and all this ? Because i am sure webzen doesnt care 0 about the private servers, they will be always the 1st and ONLY that will be forever evolving and Long term, why would they take things personally, if they wont even get any monoey by suing us? i dont believe its even worth to talk about it, from my view.
First 4 mu onlines that are in top, are administrated by same admin , same LAME CONFIG,no idea about administration and IT , same bugs,same errors. COpy-paste.
Server are alive for about 2-4 weeks, then dies...then he opens another one,and another one... just for money.
proof>
There's too many private servers popping left and right nowadays, I'm beginning to think they're run by some criminal entities as most of these servers have poor/lacking in services.
What do you think "private" servers are if not a criminal service?
Each and every "private" server violates a lot of copyrights and other intellectual property protection laws. If you violate any of these laws you are, by definition, a criminal.
As well stated by NewMuPlanet publishing a "private" server when you do not have the rights to do it (which only the IP owner can give to you) may lead Webzen to shut you down or go even further and sue everything and everyone related to this criminal publishing act.
I can't understand why such a basic logical, moral and rational subject be so misunderstood by communities like this one. The mental masturbation ppl go into just to justify publishing an illegal mu server is madness...
I have never talk about it, becuase it was a hard hit for me, but i was from the very few people who have been target by Webzen.
Sorry to tell you but they can't close your server in Europe for example, but sure they can mess with paypal, googledrive download links e.t.c
This one intrigues me, could you share a bit more on this one? As you mentioned you have had an experience dealing with big W yourself, so this is something community would like to know.
Should someone write an anonymous letter to Webzen and ask them about this all and their point of view? Probably not going to get a response, but would be good to know once and for all?
I strongly believe they can close down any server anywhere, but it would take too much time dealing with this all, for example if they want to close down a server they need to chase it up where it is hosted, then file a case to that countries specific authority based on breach of their copyrights/intellectual property, then get a response from the local authority about to be able to even approach the hosting service company where they believe that server is hosted and so on and on and on...takes too much time, too much effort, with very little return.
but again, if anyone has got any info on this tell your story.
First 4 mu onlines that are in top, are administrated by same admin , same LAME CONFIG,no idea about administration and IT , same bugs,same errors. COpy-paste.
Server are alive for about 2-4 weeks, then dies...then he opens another one,and another one... just for money.
proof>
I've read the posts here and true. A lot of private servers are ran by incompetent administrators. But, in this case, you(we as players) are the one who choose to pay for some poor services or not. If someone is willing to pay freely for something, the server's incompetent admins are not criminals. You are just dumb enough to do that xD (no offences here). So, we, as players, we need to provide a feedback and get an opinion on that server. The reason many players are playing 2 weeks and then the server just dies, is cause the server it really sucks! And players actually saw already what the server can offer. The best private servers are the one which coming with custom things(Not ITEMs. Custom not equal Items or pets), things like a jewel bank, a wcoin slot machine, different events with unique loot and a change in the grind method of getting xp, custom quests, new crafting system.. and the list can go on and on. The monotony is killing the servers.
That what has been said that servers currently are run by hackers is a true thing. Why? Try to find a server without ANY virus in main.exe Today its impossible many days ago half of servers were clean on virustotal.com
If I am wrong please provide links or at least names for clean servers !! Thanks