Buy Lineage2 Arena News:The perfect scheme—buy the stolen source code of a popular online game Lineage II, rent some Lineage II servers to run the game as your own, and then hang a shingle on the web inviting gamers to come play at a steep discount.

A California man who followed that path must have thought he'd never get caught. He was even warned once by the game’s rightful owner, a large South Korean company, to shut down. He didn’t.

So the company, which has offices in Austin, called the FBI. The suspect was apparently lining his own pockets from “donations” and ads on his site while his pirated version of the game, “Lineage II,” was siphoning $750,000 a month in potential revenues from the company.

The premise of MMORPG makes a lot of sense--these are games that let you create a character who goes off on adventures in a vast and colorful online world with thousands of other like-minded players--but until a few years ago, the technology to make these ambitious games a reality just wasn't available. However, there are plenty of online Role Play Games available now, including popular and established games like Lineage II, Dark Age of Camelot, and Ultima Online, and there are plenty more in development. But there's one that's apparently more popular and more successful than any other--Lineage: The Blood Pledge, from Korean developer NCsoft, a 2D game that lets you play as fighters, wizards, and elves in search of fame and fortune in a colorful fantasy world. The game reportedly has several million subscribers and is still going strong,

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