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Jokersvirus
08-17-2010, 01:05 AM
Here's a tip for you: Unless you are very, very rich, do not charge people money to play an unauthorized World of Warcraft server. This lesson was learned the expensive way by Scapegaming. The one-woman company was recently ordered to pay Blizz $88,594,539.00. You could buy like 45 hamburgers with that kind of money! The 88-million dollar fee is mainly made up of statutory damages, with only $3 million representing money collected by Scapegaming in the form of players paying microtransactions for unauthorized World of Warcraft content.

If I had to bet, I'd put my money on Blizzard never seeing this cash, however. The $88 mil was a default judgment, and I seriously doubt a person/company that would not bother to defend itself against this kind of lawsuit is good for the money. All of this screams: Fly-by-night operation, ready to disappear at a moment's notice to me.

Whether "Scapegaming" will appear again, with a new name, remains to be seen, but with the kind of profit possible, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
Kenoi
08-17-2010, 08:35 AM
only... 45 hamburgers? c'mon man, think MORE than that. with that kind of dough, you can get more than just 45 hamburgers... you can get like each comfort food by the thousands. that includes dessert. haha.
LiNuX
08-17-2010, 10:01 AM
I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back with another name. $3 million is a lot of money to collect and assuming 99% of it's profit since you don't even have to worry about game development or anything, the only cost are the servers and you can great servers with just 1% of that money for several years.
thedeparted
08-17-2010, 10:47 AM
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Jokersvirus
08-17-2010, 10:51 AM
I wouldnt be surprised if its up and running again. My question is how did blizzard find out
ghegpatatas
08-17-2010, 02:53 PM
88 million..too much to comprehend.. ugghhh...
BobTD
08-20-2010, 01:43 AM
lols, blizzard has so much money they forget what a rational number was.
ghegpatatas
08-20-2010, 05:52 AM
lols, blizzard has so much money they forget what a rational number was.

waaay over their heads.. lol
Jokersvirus
08-20-2010, 11:48 AM
If it was your IP,Intellectual Property, that was bringing you in hundred of millions, maybe even billions, a year I pretty sure you would sue them for that amount too.
BobTD
08-20-2010, 11:52 PM
it was a joke lols. ghegpatatas totally saw your response coming btw.
Schwartzy2.0
09-07-2010, 08:29 AM
only... 45 hamburgers? c'mon man, think MORE than that. with that kind of dough, you can get more than just 45 hamburgers... you can get like each comfort food by the thousands. that includes dessert. haha.

but what if theyre really really good five star styled hamburgars then maybe 88 million just aint quite enough
LemonRising
09-07-2010, 09:07 PM
LOL and thats why we don't do illegal things for a profit.
LiNuX
09-07-2010, 09:12 PM
LOL and thats why we don't do illegal things for a profit.

hm...so do you do it to break even?

Cuz that could be an ingenious plan...testify in court that everything you were doing was non-profit.
Jokersvirus
09-07-2010, 10:14 PM
hmm you could go to court saying it was non profit and they "donated" money to you by their own free will.
LemonRising
09-08-2010, 02:01 AM
hahahaa

"if you look here your judgeliness, no profit was made, and so, they weren't really paying for the game, but instead.. servers and letting me have money for food."
Jokersvirus
09-08-2010, 08:36 AM
just saying your judgeliness he or she would throw something very hard at you
LemonRising
09-08-2010, 01:50 PM
Oh definitely.

And that's why Lemons should never go to court.
Jaykub
09-08-2010, 01:52 PM
Lol...

88 Million seems like a little too much to me.
Jokersvirus
09-08-2010, 02:35 PM
Oh definitely.

And that's why Lemons should never go to court.


If i was going to lose a lawsuit I would say something stupid like

Miss judge do you take it up the ****** with a side of whip cream?
Evlesoa
09-09-2010, 12:31 AM
That's crazy.

Honestly, I want to see all these stupid WoW servers die. Not because it's WoW, but because the people that run them, try to make $ and say it's "donations" (in quotes) for server hosting and stuff. Yeaaah, bullsh**.
BIg jACK
09-09-2010, 06:34 AM
Poor ladie :( blizzard has to take everyone's money don't they from all the people addicted to the game and spend so much money you'd think that would be like front pocket change to them but i guess the ladie was doing no good for Blizzard then again 88 million is a little outrageous for a simple thing like that.



-Jack