Lineage III Source Code Stolen

South Korea company, one of the leaders in MMORPG development, NCSoft is informing that the source code for Lineage III was stolen by former employees and later sold to a Japanese competitor (hard to tell which one). According to Seoul Metropolitan police, 7 ex-employees of NCSoft are suspected in this incident.

Korean police is speculating that the theft likely occurred during a long series of job interviews with an unknown Japanese company in February. Probably then those former NCSoft employees provided examples of their software work to this Japanese company. Police is currently working which Japanese company is involved in crime.
Those 7 ex-employees are also believed to have played a part in the leak of the Lineage III program design.

Well in this situation we must wait longer for Lineage III, it’s hard to tell but releasing date can be around 2011. This is sad. Really sad. How could they sell source code? They thought that no one will realize that they sell it?

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