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Level-Up! gives in to underground Mafia

Just read this news from Inq7.net about “Level-Up! surrenders to underground economy“.

Almost all online virual games such as World of Warcraft (WoW), Ragnarok Online and Second Life suffer from such massive violations. Blizzard responds by banning tens of thousands of accounts caught cheating the system. Level-up! gave in to the mafia and reasons out that:

…online game community has become so organic and so diverse that it would be hard to control people from going beyond the bounds of game rules. It’s not cheating anymore because everyone is doing it already and it’s becoming beneficial for everyone.

This is according to Level-Up! Chief Operating Officer Sheila Paul. Nice one! *hehehe*

What she may have meant there was since everyone is doing it and cashing in on the system, why exert more effort to curb it and spend money when they could join the crowd and possibly increase sales. *heh*

[tags]mmorpg, online games, levelup[/tags]

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7 Responses to “Level-Up! gives in to underground Mafia”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Vespinoy Jun 22nd, 2006 at 8:38 am

    That’s thinking out of the box.
    Now my son will be happy ;)

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 jun Jun 22nd, 2006 at 11:13 am

    Not because it is done by everyone means it is right. it encourages wrongdoing and gives a bad influence, especially to the your who pay Level Up!

    If the “cheating” or violations benefit everyone, change the rules or remove them.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 jun Jun 22nd, 2006 at 11:20 am

    oops.. That should have read

    “especially to the young who play Level Up!”

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Migs Jun 22nd, 2006 at 4:41 pm

    Mafia? So MMOGs are a new business for The Mob!

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Migs Jun 22nd, 2006 at 4:42 pm

    And check out the “gold” and “power leveling” ads. Big money here!

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Jonathan Jun 6th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    pls send me a ragnarokpk bot

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 DTA Aug 25th, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    Lazy Loser.

    In Luke 11:29 Jesus said of that generation: “This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah.”

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