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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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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

10 Responses

  1. Avatar for CR CR says:

    cheating is cheating… no going around that. not because majority does it, you can’t call it cheating anymore? it just means that majority’s cheating.
    the other players give in to the pressure because you don’t provide anything or do anything that will curb it.
    pathetic excuse to inefficiency and incompetence.

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  3. Avatar for Reinheart Reinheart says:

    I think that by doing this the management teams of level up would have to think of a better contingency plan. If they intend to allow botting then they better be prepared to deal with more frequent server overload issues. Having a separate server or converting an existing server into a bots only zone should deal with that but at least that’s what I think they should do.

    That is if they even care about the player’s opinion or their own integrity.

  4. Avatar for DTA DTA says:

    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.”

  5. Avatar for Jonathan Jonathan says:

    pls send me a ragnarokpk bot

  6. Avatar for Miguel Miguel says:

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

  7. Avatar for Miguel Miguel says:

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

  8. Avatar for jun jun says:

    oops.. That should have read

    “especially to the young who play Level Up!”

  9. Avatar for jun jun says:

    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.

  10. Avatar for Vespinoy Vespinoy says:

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

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