Posts Tagged ‘cash’

Hacking Ignited Unintended Clamor against Low Probability

January 6th, 2012

A player of a baseball management game <Pro Baseball Manager> has been banned forever because he has purportedly purchased enormous amount of in-game items through hacking.

Funnily, the players of the game are lifting their voice against Ntreev instead of the illegal player because the probability of the baseball player cards became known extremely lower than ever thought.

 

A message that the account is banned untill December 31, 9999

The hacker argued that even 1 trillion PT(in-game currency) cannot get you what you want and posted a screenshot of his permanent suspension until December 31, 9999.

Then Ntreev said “The exact money the player created by the hacking was 97 million PT. And we are currently working on whether he used all the money to buy the cards.”

The cards grant additional ability to the players’ teams if certain conditions meet such as collecting whole cards of a favorite team of the same year. And as better cards are obviously rarer, the players have shelled out for better and better cards in order to make their teams the best.

 

Need 39,000 PT to draw a card.

So let’s calculate. You need 39,000 PT to get a chance to draw a card out of diverse levels. According to Ntreev’s report, he generated 97M PT. So he could gamble at least 2487 times. But he insists that he has failed to get a single superb card out of 2487 chances.

Then other players are complaining about the extremely low probability with explosive amount of posts for a day.

“We have acknowledged the complaint of the probability of the cards. But the system is not malicious at all,” said an official from Ntreev. “We have further enhanced our protection because there was another trial of hacking. The trial did not penetrate our server this time. We are going to review what to do against the malicious players.”

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GRB “Diablo 3′s Cash Auction Could Be A Problem”

September 29th, 2011

Concern over Blizzard Entertainment’s <Diablo 3> is rising not from gaming industry but National Assembly.

Accroding to JaeChul Sim MP’s report submitted to the National Assembly last 28th, if a random probability based feature of a game takes great portion of the game and is encashable, the game is speculative and could be denied to be rated in order to prevent any possible speculation in the future under the first clause of Article 1 of the game law of Korea.

He said GRB explained real money transaction(RMT) system of the online game could encourage the speculation.

Based on what he said, a Korean media made a fault report last night that GRB set up a internal policy not to rate <Diablo 3> for the reason of its possible speculation.

GRB clarified that they have kept their mouth shut about games yet rated and it has applied to <Diablo 3> too. “We never judge any games not even filed for rating.”

They also said “We cannot and have not named a specific game in the report. The data we provided to Sim is just about regulation for speculation of ordinary MMORPG. In addition, we cannot deny any games for the reason of encouraging speculation unless it is obvious.”

By the way, let me ask you something. Is the game content really matter to deal with the National Assembly?

No one has seriously complaint about it in the past but why now? There are even RMT sites legally and precedents that RMT is legit unless it is professionally done.

Even more, it is hard to judge that RMT is encouraging the speculation because it can be interpreted in trading items uselss to someone with someone else who really needs it.

Industy experts said “<Diablo 3> is obviously 18+ game. So it is hard to imagine that it would be refused to be rated from GRB all because of the cash auction. We should look at its voluntary participation.”

Then we could think the National Assembly is trying to hunt down the overseas company Blizzard Entertainment once again.

The government had recalled Michael Gilmartin the CEO of Blizzard last year to inquire its controversial policy for Korean internet cafes which is obviously and utterly its business authority.

Blizzard said “We are not sure if the cash auction of Diablo 3 would be revised for Korean version. We are also investigating legally and will talk with GRB later. What’s for sure now is that we will follow each country’s policy.”

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