Blizzard wins 88 Million dollar lawsuit. OUCH

[Jokersvirus]

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]

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]

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]

[Jokersvirus]

I wouldnt be surprised if its up and running again. My question is how did blizzard find out

[ghegpatatas]

88 million..too much to comprehend.. ugghhh...

[BobTD]

lols, blizzard has so much money they forget what a rational number was.

[ghegpatatas]

lols, blizzard has so much money they forget what a rational number was.

waaay over their heads.. lol

[Jokersvirus]

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]

it was a joke lols. ghegpatatas totally saw your response coming btw.