Anyone else but NCsoft?

March 14th, 2006 Jun Sok Huhh Posted in news |

The mid-term announcement of Korean Police Agency on the NCsoft's Lineage case is so surprising even to us. The outline about the course of affairs is following. I'm still in doubt on the number of illegal accounts registered by stolen national residence numbers.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com

As I’ve told in the previous post, NCsoft has little incentives to handle suspicious accounts from abroad actively. I’m not saying that NCsoft was innocent, but it might not be righteous that all the responsibility is shouldered on it.

There are a lot of ambient evidences that Korean brokers have organized RMT sweatshops of China in several years. Personally, I have seen much fewer posts at community sites that native players had make some money from item trading than around 4 years before. In economic sense, demand and supply was being splitting along the wage differential during those years.
Suddenly, this question comes upon to me. “Who can get considerable benefit from RMT?” First, as you already knew, is publisher. The nominal increase of subscriber is equals to the increase in revenue. Second is mediator in RMT. In Korea, one player has a considerable share(around 60%) of officially mediated trading. Coincidentally, last four years were the fastest growing terms for its business.

Maybe, is it strongly possible for the mediator to run its very own RMT workshops in China or other countries with cheap labor?

As of now, I’ve not any sound proviso to confirm this bold speculation. But, considering economic interests and accessibility to the information required, it is one of probable situations under deep cover.