NotAZaku

First off, hey look, it's my first post here on the forums! *toot* (My main is The Heretic Rider on Excelsior, just got to level 7 and am really starting to get a feel for things!) Anyway, to brass tacks! So you've been running your servers without an EULA? That's gonna be a YIKES from me, hoss. Could land you in all sorts of trouble. Namely of the legal sort. Something tells me that you should have these ducks in a row before you had 100k+ people populating your servers, but that's just my takeaway. In any case, I'm glad this issue is being sorted out in some form! I'm going to come out of lurking to say this. Uh... What? Please elaborate. As far as I'm aware (and if there's anyone watching this thread who knows more about this than I, please feel free to lambast me for being so wrong correct me if I'm off base), these servers are running on effectively defunct code (well, not "defunct" as in untouched; more like "hasn't been used in a while by the original holders") and that the server owners are not making any sort of money off of their servers (outside of a few very generous donations made by some folks with deeper pockets than the rest of us, but I can't see how that's making any sort of profit, really), correct? The "how" and "why" of their acquisition of said code doesn't really factor in (unless it does and I miss my mark; highly likely that I have) unless someone who owned the original code (such as NCSoft) makes it an issue. Working off that logic, what these people (the people running the Homecoming servers) are doing is technically legal, but the ice is very thin both ways (in that the Homecoming folks have to make sure that everything is above-board and that NCSoft can't go after them unless the company has either a REALLY GOOD legal team working nonstop to make it happen or something REALLY heinous happens).