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The Problem With Exploiters, Part 3

11:26 PM Saturday March 16th, 2002

Holy hell, this sucker keeps rolling downhill, folks…

Many thanks to Unknown Player who popped this onto my IM. According to Anarchy Oline, BlackSnow (for brevity’s sake, hereinafter referred to as “BS”) issued a press release sometime yesterday. This one sez “OK gang, we’re really thinking harder about suing them because they said we were banz0rd when we weren’t.”

Think I’m kidding?

Press Release
March 15th, 2002
1:08 PM PST

“False Statements in Funcom’s Press Release Regarding Dispute With BSI.”

“Funcom’s Press release dated March 14th, 2002, contained Statements that were inaccurate or outright false. An example of these statements would be that our lawsuit with Mythic involved our accounts being banned for exploiting. This is a clear and factual misrepresentation. All of our accounts with Mythic are in good standing and none of our accounts are banned, nor is our lawsuit in any way related to exploitation or in-game misconduct in anyway. Our dispute with Mythic is solely related to the sale of DAOC related services outside of the game.”

“Other statements made in Funcom’s press release are also false, and we are considering seeking legal redress for the damages caused by libelous statement(s).”

Lee Caldwell
(888)491-4949
Sales@camelotexchange.com

www.camelotexchange.com
www.aoexchange.com

Now, mind you this is not on their website at all. They may have taken it down. I don’t know. I do know that their press release section still only pertains to the Mythic situation.

We think we’ve pinpointed the portion of the ‘press release’ that they’re bunched up about. From the first paragraph of the original e-mail we got from FunCom:

We wanted to let you know about a dispute between a company called Blacksnow Interactive and Funcom. As you probably know, Blacksnow Interactive is a company that owns various web sites and sells items from all the major MMOGs on those sites. They are currently in a lawsuit with Mythic Entertainment because that company banned their accounts in Dark Age of Camelot (http://www.camelotexchange.com/PressRelease.asp ).

Inaccurate, yeah. Libel, nah. In the strict definition of the word, yes. But dig a bit, and you’ll find that, as far as I can tell, BlackSnow has to prove actual malice as opposed to just mistaken circumstances. Being that it’s a company and not a private individual and all. At least as far as I can tell.

But with all this talk of suing…how about letting the players in on it too?

A group of guilds are forming a coalition to drive BlackSnow out of the game. In the post on BS’s own boards, Michael “Vanguarde” Webb states:

Several of the most powerful guilds have banded together and are putting together a case vs. Blacksnow Interactive ourselves. We will not stand for a bunch of freeloaders coming in and charging people for playing a game they sould be playing in the first place.

We have been in contact with Mythic and they agree with us.

We are going to work out a way in which all people who use these services get ‘branded’ so all the other legit players know in game they did not earn their level and rank and will have a special marking that clearly states they are a ‘serviced’ player.

In this way, along with the support of almost all of the top guilds playing Dark Age of Camelot, it will allow Blacksnow to still run it’s ‘buisness’, yet it will let the people decide in game if they want to group with someone who has used one of these services.

We are positive branding players who use these services to get levels and status not through skill and time, but through pure cash, will find that in their quest to become powerful by paying others to do the work they should have, that they will find no groups, no guilds, and no fun in the game world.

We are not a company, we are not in this for money what so ever like both Mythic AND Blacksnow are. We are in this to preserve the gameworld we enjoy and love so much. We, as hundreds of the players in the top guilds across several servers will not ALLOW this to happen, and ‘branding’ the people who use these services is the answer we strongly believe.

Our group is over 400 players strong, and represent a large chunk of the most powerful guilds across several DAoC servers. We will not sit back and let these kinds of companies profit off of other peoples work, nor will we let them destroy the economy in DAoC which is so important for the fun in the game.

Feel free to email me at mikewebb@si.rr.com I am one of 4 members of this group, who call themselves the ‘Omega Plan’ that has been selected to speak for everyone in these times.

We are 100% behind Mythic, and respect the hard work they have done in this project. We are 100% negative towards Blacksnow, and as we have done to the semi-famous seller in the past, know as ‘Grem’, we shall help put these people who seek to profit from others hard work, down and out.

Thank you for your time, and Blacksnow, you can expect to hear from our lawyers in a few days.

This was posted on March 13th…eerily prescient, I’d say.

Either way, we’ve got a heck of a lot more info coming your way Monday morning. Stay tuned. Same bat-time, same bat-channel.

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