It must be unfathomably sad not to have even a semblance of a life.
Heh. That made me laugh.
What I find funny is that Tazz hasn't quite figured out what's at stake here. Let's say he's right. Let's say that there is a proof-of-concept server. Let's say that former Paragon Employees did what was morally right and not legally correct and save information they were supposed to destroy. Let's posit for a moment that those same potential employees even made sure that the software or data they saved; which could be anything from design documents to (gasp) actual source code; wound up in hands of former players with the coding skills to carry on. What if such information didn't actually come from within Paragon or Cryptic... or even NCSoft itself? Let's posit that such information might have come from Transgaming, AMD, Nvidia, or Intel. Every single one of them had similar access at some point.
What exactly does Tazz think is going to happen to anybody involved,
on any level, with such a massive undertaking?
Does he seriously really believe that NCSoft won't be pressing for jailtime for those involved? Does he seriously believe that NCSoft won't have people searching known forums and hangouts of CoH fans for any hint of any such activity? What about any hosting companies or ISP's that might be involved in running a quote/unquote
"Bootleg" server. What exactly is their legal culpability?
Let's make this clear. Even if we look beyond NCSoft's reputation for shutting down reverse engineering efforts by sending Cease and Desist letters; they've got a nasty reputation for getting personal with subsequent attacks. Case in point; what Taek Kim did to Richard Garriot while Richard was, quite literally, not even on the planet:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/07/30/richard-garriott-wins-lawsuit-against-ncsoft/This is a company led by a CEO that actively practices the idea that
CRIMINAL TACTICS are Ethically acceptable methods of action to get what they want.
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Speaking directly to Tazz for a moment; I don't think you'll find people looking at the Titan staff with suspicion. Many players remember Tony saying outright at the NCSoft shutdown that Titan already had enough information in hand to get a reverse-engineered server up and running. It's been common knowledge for a
long while that players associated with Titan had been picking apart the game engine and client even before Taek Kim threw his legendary
"There Will Be Dire Consequences" fit at Brian Clayton.
Ergo; it shouldn't surprise anybody that maybe... just maybe... the Titan staff may know something that they can't, or won't, tell anybody else. It also shouldn't surprise anybody that anybody involved with Titan won't give that kind of information out. Not with NCSoft's history.
The only one here attracting suspicion is
YOU Tazz. You've got this obsession that really makes me want to backcheck your IP address and posted email; because you are striking me quite like a couple of NCSoft employees I had the displeasure of encountering at various E3's.