Lineage 2

pragmata · Post by **pragmata** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:14 pm

Just wanted to introduce every1 to an mmo ive been playing the last month, u guys might have heard of it (http://www.lineage2.com, official site).

I play on a free private server (http://www.l2dementia.com), new users are welcome to sign up. its an awesome game and very easy to learn, hope to see u guys in game!

San · Post by **San** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:10 am

uh....i guess it looks okay
but i wont be playing it anytime soon

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:04 am

L2 is a good game.. But not for me

RuYi · Post by **RuYi** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:23 am

Indeed a very nice game, loved it.
Used to play it with Hitokeke.

But lately I'm really busy, so SRO is the only game I play when I got time lol.

Priam · Post by **Priam** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:01 pm

It's an awesome game, though SRO has me tied up..

Jabo · Post by **Jabo** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:37 pm

Lineage II is the best MMO i have ever seen, nice to know, my computer is a shit now, so i think i cant download it =P but anyways, ill chek that private server web

hitokiri · Post by **hitokiri** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:26 pm

Yea I did the whole private server thing with RuYi. It was definitely a fun game.

Ja · Post by Ja » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:58 am

I played it back on l2extreme. fun game.

http://www.l2extreme.com

oh thats right... it doesnt work anymore...

www.fbi.gov wrote:It must have seemed like the perfect scheme—buy the stolen source code of a popular online game, rent some servers to run the game as your own, and then hang a shingle on the web inviting gamers to come play at a steep discount.

A California man who followed that path must have thought he’d never get caught. He was even warned once by the game’s rightful owner, a large South Korean company, to shut down. He didn’t.

“They don’t think that a company is going to come after them at any point,” says Christopher Thompson, a special agent on a cyber squad in the FBI’s office in Austin, Texas. “He said he was going to stop doing it and he didn’t.”

So the company, which has offices in Austin, called the FBI. The suspect was apparently lining his own pockets from “donations” and ads on his site while his pirated version of the game, “Lineage II,” was siphoning $750,000 a month in potential revenues from the company.

According to Agent Thompson, here’s how the scheme evolved:

In 2003, a computer user in China obtained the “Lineage” source code from an unprotected website. The proprietary code was then placed on the underground market, where a Texas man, among others, bought it in 2004. He then passed it along to his business partner in California, who set up a website, http://www.l2extreme.com, to offer the “Lineage” game at a discount. Gamers arrived in droves—as many as 50,000 active users by 2006—which pinched the legitimate game’s bottom line.

“It’s comparable to the music-downloading and file-sharing problem in the late ‘90s—thousands of people engaging in activity that is inherently illegal,” Agent Thompson said.

The California man soon assumed full control of the site and ramped up operations. In late 2005, just months after promising to shut down the site, he rented more powerful servers—enough to accommodate 4,000 simultaneous gamers. He solicited donations from users to help defray the costs and collected more than $25,000 in less than two days.

“Even if game sites collect no money, they still operate in violation of copyright laws,” Agent Thompson said. “But he just got greedy because the money was there.” Indeed, online gaming is estimated to be a $1 billion industry and growing. And massive, multi-player online games (MMOGs in the gamers’ parlance) are one of the leading categories.

Last November, Agent Thompson led a raid on the California man’s home, shut down the game, seized the l2extreme domain, and posted the FBI anti-piracy warning on the site. Meanwhile, the company posted a press release on its website announcing the raid. “We’ve taken this action because we strongly believe in defending the intellectual property rights that we’ve worked so hard to create,” the company said in the release.

The result: several other servers running pirated games “ran for the hills,” Agent Thompson said. There are others, to be sure, but the case serves as a reminder that stealing intellectual property is a criminal offense. As our warning clearly states, “ Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000."

twas the best l2 private server out there... RIP l2extreme T_T.

(2 other well known private servers were shut down because of this)

rek · Post by **rek** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:27 am

its a great game...too bad its p2p :roll:

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:00 am

My neighbor runs a private server.. If i go on it i can get like anything i need xD But SRO for me

rek · Post by **rek** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:14 am

priv servrs are always empty...

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:27 am

reK wrote:priv servrs are always empty...

My neighbor issn't

Rockshmo · Post by **Rockshmo** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:26 am

L2x was great, I tried going back a few months ago and saw that.. was so upset. :cry:

Reise · Post by **Reise** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:41 am

Jeez, soon everything you do is going to be copyright infringement.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:52 am

Oh yeah, stupid government, stopping people from stealing other peoples' work and making money off it! We sure do live in a police state!

Reise · Post by **Reise** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:46 pm

Bakemaster wrote:Oh yeah, stupid government, stopping people from stealing other peoples' work and making money off it! We sure do live in a police state!

lol You know my stance on that debate. Remember the guy that came in awhile back talking about some huge conspiracies? Yeah.

pragmata · Post by **pragmata** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:06 pm

just wanted to update this thread, l2dementia is dead. its no longer wot it used to be and the only gm left has downgraded from a good legit core to a crappy l2 java free core, basically easy to hack.

me and mates from that community hve relocated to a non donation server, with 200+ pple (http://www.l2default), feel free to msg me (Prag) in game.

Rockshmo · Post by **Rockshmo** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:06 am

Yeah I went to check out L2dementia after it died.. stupid GM's havin' bitch fits at eachother.. wouldn't wanna be a part of that anyway.

ToiletGreece · Post by **ToiletGreece** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:04 am

I lef L2 for Sro..Although L2J was fun.. silkroad i found to be better..

Most L2J Servers had something i hated about them..

Jabo · Post by **Jabo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:41 pm

I know of one of the best Private Servers of Lineage II
http://www.l2chronicleserver.com/gettingstarted.php

Its always with people and its closely the same as the official one, you may like to try it.

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:45 pm

Jabo wrote:I know of one of the best Private Servers of Lineage II
http://www.l2chronicleserver.com/gettingstarted.php

Its always with people and its closely the same as the official one, you may like to try it.

bumpage?

Jabo · Post by **Jabo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:02 pm

sorry but i dont know what a bumpage is :S

cin · Post by **cin** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:13 pm

he means you "bumped" up a topic thats a couple of months old.

anyway, i tried L2. really nice game.. lots of private servers to play on.
only thing buggin me a lot is that
1) private servers ARE empty most of the time
2) private servers often have insane xp n drop rates.

for example, i kill 1 mob n go from level 1 to level 18 and have to walk around
the world for 30 minuts just to find the new mobs worthy to kill.

edit: oh, n bump means "bring up my post"

Jabo · Post by **Jabo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:25 pm

cin wrote:1) private servers ARE empty most of the time
2) private servers often have insane xp n drop rates.

Thanks for that thing of bump AND

thats why I choosed this server, not playing it actually because my computer has some things wrong in them but i played it and it was very popular (at least to be a private server) and now a friend that plays it tell me that it didnt changed respecting to the amount of people + the experience and rate of drop items its very balanced.. ive never played the official lineage II but its like.. i dont know.. normal. Its not a server to try how would you be if you were high level, its a server to play.

Locketart · Post by **Locketart** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:34 pm

I once played on a private server with a great exp rate. Only problem was when I got around 30 I couldn't grind without getting ganked.

AnemuS · Post by **AnemuS** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:43 pm

well l2extreme back than went down, with couple of other successful servers out there, and one of them was l2-paradise in my eyes it was far best server around , l2extreme mainly was a pvp server with a badass donation items which were ruining normal people game play :p, and of cource SS lag (who knows what is it probably got anoyed by it so much)

in fact that both of those servers got the right from the "big company" to open their servers again, and now probably gonna get really far.. lineage2 private servers are succedd more than any other game... u wont ever find a private server with a game t hat holds more than 5k users at once without lag, and with no bugs...

yet l2-extreme is already went live few weeks ago, or even months..

l2-paradise.com is not even open yet as they test a new server which is gonna be bugless and official-like... though the exp rate will be increased to 7x

this is by far best game of all MMORPGS , to anyone who wanna try it, u wont be dissapointed

official servers are like shit now though, even private servers are working better than off server cause private has no bots in it.. but on off you will find bunch of "full of bot parties" yeah a single computer holds 8 bots at once and they are just farming there

and to tell you PVP SERVERS suq asses, mostly stupid people nothing to do in there... im myself waiting for l2-paradise to release ive played this server for 2 years and im in love with it, as soon as it will open ill be so happy

i can answer basically to all the questions about the game as i was exploring it for a long time and played almost all the races except for ORCS , though i might start this time with it xD

RuYi · Post by **RuYi** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:59 pm

I played on L2-Paradise too if I'm not mistaken. Good server indeed, though I picked a server with a higher exp rate lol. I had fun nonetheless, though, even though it was for a little while.
They took everything down then the FBI arrested a guy who hosted a L2-Private server. :roll:

AnemuS · Post by **AnemuS** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:57 pm

nope they didnt arrest him lol..

they have arrested an l2-extreme head admin and half developers, if im not mistaken they are jailed for 3 years and payed 250.000$ to lineage2 company xD i remember when i first heard about this i went checking their site, and saw an FBI site.. i was like wtf? xD

anyways l2p closed their server as ken or sct(the head admins) of l2p heard about the issue until it all calms down.. they also said that the server would never go live again, but now its working again

, they have all of the databases saved, but its probably gonna get wiped , as they want to start a new fresh server as it was before

...

whats most shocking thing about this, is the server is still not opened but there is thousands of people signed for beta testing and people vote for a server which is actually not yet living xD and its moving real fast to a 1 place of topsites, as it was before

RuYi · Post by **RuYi** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:02 pm

AnemuS wrote:nope they didnt arrest him lol.. they have arrested an l2-extreme head admin and half developers, if im not mistaken they are jailed for 3 years and payed 250.000$ to lineage2 company xD i remember when i first heard about this i went checking their site, and saw an FBI site.. i was like wtf? xD

anyways l2p closed their server as ken or sct(the head admins) of l2p heard about the issue until it all calms down.. they also said that the server would never go live again, but now its working again , they have all of the databases saved, but its probably gonna get wiped , as they want to start a new fresh server as it was before ...

whats most shocking thing about this, is the server is still not opened but there is thousands of people signed for beta testing and people vote for a server which is actually not yet living xD and its moving real fast to a 1 place of topsites, as it was before

I didn't said the arrested the L2-Paradise guy.. >>

AnemuS · Post by **AnemuS** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:12 pm

well u didnt say what server exactly too... so i thought u were talking about a server u were reffering at first >.>