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RuneScape’s roots go back ten years, to 2001 where the game was a simple at home project by Andrew Gower. With the Gowers now mostly absent (they resigned from the Board of Directors in December 2010), the torch has been passed to Mark Gerhard to keep the developer moving in its upward trend. Granted, Jagex [...]
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Star Vault Summons League of Extraordinary Investors For Meeting
December 31st, 2011 
Omali The Board proposes that the AGM resolve in order to enable the Board to provide the company with working capital to authorize the Board, during the period until the next AGM, to decide on the issue of a maximum a number of shares and / or convertible bonds and / or warrants entitling to convert [...]
NCSoft, Nexon, Others Relieved Of Identity Attacks…
December 19th, 2011 Omali Over in Korea, players have a lot more to lose when a company leaks their information. Unlike in most other countries, players are often required to register to MMOs with the Korean equivalent of the social security number, and more than once data leaks have resulted in these numbers being readily available for the gaming [...]
How To End Security Issues For…Some Time.
April 4th, 2011 Omali Security. In the game of anything tech related, security would be the boss you fight before fighting Lucifer himself. The big question that lies heavy on the minds of the IT guys is: how do you save the consumers, when most of the time their biggest enemy is themselves? People losing their account because their [...]
In Plain English: Why ScapeGaming Was Singled Out
August 17th, 2010 Omali Private servers being shut down is nothing new, and as much as players like to discuss the legality of them, at the end of the day they are illegal. Now, being illegal and warranting action are two separate things. Lawyers cost a lot of money (generally around $500 an hour), so paying a lawyer to [...]
The MMO Turing Test: Five Years
July 29th, 2010 Omali I came upon this decision months ago, but I’ve been sitting on it until someone pointed out my hint, and they did in an email I received: I see you updated your calendar showing MMO birthdays, but only titles that are five years old and older are displayed. Is there a reason for this? Or [...]
Real Money Trading In Korea: In Plain English
January 14th, 2010 Omali In violation of my court order to only use the gold image a maximum of twice on the front page, many MMOers are probably aware of South Korea ruling that real money trading, the conversion of digital cash to real cash, is now legal. Your gold pieces, kinah, plats, gil, influence, adena, credits, ISK, whatever [...]
Runes of Magic: Credit Card/Paypal Blocks In Plain English
January 12th, 2010 Omali I wanted to have a slightly more serious conversation about a certain title that has garnered quite a bit of controversy around it by outside players and its community. I am, of course, referencing to the newly instated Diamond policy that restricts what players can do with diamonds purchased through certain avenues. Diamonds are a [...]
Bethesda Vs Interplay: In Plain English
September 12th, 2009 Omali I know there are some avid Fallout Wiki readers who already know about this, but the rest of you might want to listen up. While the MMO community has had a good laugh over the past few months calling Fallen Earth the “Fallout MMO,” what many of them are not aware of is that there [...]
Codemasters Loses Archlord Rights
September 5th, 2009 Omali Just as I’m talking about the battle over the future of Dungeons and Dragons online, here comes news from another sector of the internet: Codemasters has lost their rights to operate the MMO Archlord in the United States and Europe. Instead, the servers will shut down on October 1st, only to be reopened a couple [...]
