According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police, seven former employees of Lineage developer NCsoft are suspected of selling source code for online game Lineage III to a major Japanese game company. This past February, the seven game programmers resigned from the Korean game maker and interviewed with a Japanese game company. It's believed the source code was copied during this interview. What's more, it's also suspected that Lineage III's program design was leaked last September by either email or disk. Word on the street is that NCsoft has been in turmoil since a senior developer was axed for poor leadership skills. The majority of the senior dev's 90-member team cut after the firing. According to NCsoft, the potential damage caused by this source code comprise is over a billion dollars. Not exactly pocket change. Brian Ashcraft

Source Code Prob [Digital Chosunilbo]

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