Blizzard Wins $88 million in lawsuit against WoW Private Server Company

On Thursday Judge Margaret M. Morrow in the California District Court ruled that Scapegaming, a private server company who ran World of Warcraft private servers, was infringing copyright and ordered the site run by Alyson Reeves to pay Blizzard Entertainment the hefty amount of $88,594,589 USDs. WoW.com reports $3,053,339 of…

DestinyMS: The Latest Server To Pocket Donations?

We received an anonymous tip from a former DestinyMS developer urging us to post an article warning users of the alleged malicious activities of DestinyMS owner and administrator, Duncan (known to players as Shadow). Although we usually like to have more solid information before going on the words of a…

AbideStory Owner Pockets $400 In Donations

UPDATE: A comment from alleged owner David has been added below. AbideStory owner David is said to have pocketed over $400 in donations for his private server that were intended to go to server costs for their hosting on FranTech. A FranTech staff member had this to say on RaGEZONE:…

The End Of Private Servers?

Summer 2010 is upon us and Maple-News is about to embark on its 3rd year online. In this post we will take a look at MapleStory private servers in the past two years. OdinMS – The Beginning OdinMS started it all and in a way successfully sealed the fate of…

Nexon Takes Action – KryptoDEV Engaged In Lawsuit with Nexon America

February 25, 2010 – KryptoDEV, a popular MapleStory private server development forum, is soon to make MapleStory history by becoming the first private server development website to be sued by Nexon Inc. Rumors have been flying around since January about problems within the website and a trusted source has told…

ALERT: January OdinMS Update!

On January 25th the OdinMS creators made the first update in almost a year on their website. Read it below. Update (01/25/10): After a period of silence something is happening again. We received a bill of indictment from the public prosecutor. Therein we are accused of having illegally copied, distributed…

DestinyMS Fights to Stay Afloat

It looks like MapleStory’s most infamous private server to date won’t be around much longer. On November 3rd the administrator of DestinyMS and RPM, Shadow, made the announcement that they have been unable to pay their bills for the past few months. Shadow also confessed that they owe €1,500 euros…

Blizzard Files Lawsuit Against Private Server

Thanks to an anonymous source for this link. Looks like the “Blizzard doesn’t sue private servers!” argument is now null and void. Source We’ve talked about private servers on the site here before, but in case you haven’t heard the term: they’re unofficial servers, very much against WoW‘s Terms of…

MorphineStory Closes

MorphineStory, the latest private server to attract Nexon’s attention, closed yesterday after an ongoing battle with a Vermont law firm hired by Nexon Korea. MorphineStory was the first private server to run on a version 0.75 source. I spoke with Darion (RaptorJesus) and he confirmed MorphineStory has closed down permanently….

RaGEZONE Replies To Nexon’s Private Server Announcement

I was contacted by MentaL, the owner of RaGEZONE, who linked me to this announcement found on the RaGEZONE forums regarding Nexon’s recent Private Server announcement (see this post). Below is the official announcement from the RaGEZONE forums. Hi, It has come to my attention that Nexon (MapleStory license holders)…