A 28 year old South Korean man had been sentenced to jail for one year. The crime was for creating and distributing the hack for a popular game Overwatch and had received a large sum of money of around $180,000 US.
The hack in particular, is an aimbot that had been developed since July 2016 and had been sold to Korean players since then. This unusually tough sentence had been cited for larger profits attained by the accused overtime, according to the SBS.
This follows on a new tough stance created by both the South Korean Government and the South Korean branch of Blizzard Entertainment in an effort to curb offenders from developing and distributing illegal software.
South Korea faced a number of issues in the gaming industry for several years. Even some large gaming companies like Riot Games had put forth civil cases against Boosting companies. According to a National Assembly representative, "We will now protect the game industry and the esports system through amendment of the game law."
The South Korean Government had introduced a number of amendments to their laws last year which had also targeted not only hackers, but boosters as well. This included some of the higher-profile players like the Philadelphia Fusion player Kim "Sado" Su-Min for boosting players and profiting of it.
So far, Blizzard had been working with the Seoul's National Police Agency's cyber division to combat the issues such as hacking, boosting and other illegal activities that had been plaguing the South Korean gaming industry.
If you are not sure why South Korea takes these issues seriously, the culture in that country have a greater infrastructure surrounding gaming. The Government had introduced a number of laws to 'regulate' gaming (not just hacking or boosting) such as the "Cinderalla Law".
Will Australia follow South Korea into handling gaming as seriously as they do? Unlikely and if they do, not for a long time. Unlike South Korea, Australia's gaming culture isn't as predominant, thus the regulations surrounding it is far more loose. But, the fact that South Korea's ever growing intensity in punishing hackers and boosters gives us a bit of an insight on what may happen if Australia's gaming culture ever reaches South Korea's level.
Nice to see a law to tackle such situations, aimbot is a big issue especially on competitive game, makes the game more hard than it already is and with time lead to loss of interest on a wide scale due to few selected gamer always winning
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It certainly sends a strong message to anybody else considering the same path. Things should be more interesting in the future!
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I must say that I really like a company committed to trap systems and I am even more surprised that a country is interested in this to allow fair play, of course for Korea it is officially a sport. In addition, a clean game encourages us to continue playing all over the Shooter games.
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indeed, definitely sends a good vibe. I suspect hacks will always be around but lets hope people think twice now.
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Whoever created lags in my games drserves life
haha 🤣
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Lag, everybody's worst enemy haha
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Wow, I’ve noticed as of late how hard some of these companies are really brining the law book and hitting people over the head with them. As someone who just wants to play games legit and in an honest way I don’t have any issue with that. One of the reason’s I’ve always hated FPS is just you never know when someone hits you with a pistol while hiding behind a building that not even a sniper could have made if they were not already clipping into the building just who else was cheating.
I’ve seen quite a few games I’ve loved be destroyed by people just wanting to cheat. Even more so with how much automation can be done. Makes you wonder why they even “play” the game in the first place if they only show up once a week to check in on how much loot a bot farmed them. Even more so if its taking all the shots in a game like this.
Earning something you fought for and failed so many times has such an amazing feeling to it. I doubt the same can be felt or said when its not done in a legit manner.
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Not sure i agree with locking someone in a cage for a year for this.
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