Beijing time on August 16, according to foreign media reports, Blizzard has won a secret "World of Warcraft" online game server litigation, and awarded compensation of about 88 million U.S. dollars.

Blizzard last October on the (Alyson Reeves) and her company set up Scapegaming sued for allegedly setting, PW, and for their own profit in violation of the "World of Warcraft," the end-user license agreement . Recently, the California Central District Court found in favor of Blizzard, and requested the return of 305 thousand U.S. dollars Scapegaming company's illegal gains, to pay 63,600 U.S. dollars in legal fees, and pay 85.48 million U.S. dollars in statutory damages, amounting to approximately 88 million U.S. dollars.

PW mimic the Blizzard's server environment, but did not use the Blizzard servers. By installing the "World of Warcraft" can be established when the software files, PW, and allow other players to connect to the server and then enter the "World of Warcraft." "World of Warcraft" was not the only troubled by the PW games, other MMORPG (that is, "massively multiplayer online role-playing game") games, some strategy games and first-person shooter faces, PW problem.

In this case, for profit, Reeves and Scapegaming game set in a number of micro-transactions, if the players make some "donations", then get the game equipment, without the player "hard leveling."

"World of Warcraft" on the PW website description is: "They can not honorable, always ask the player to pay (which is a group of users does not make people willing to disclose credit card numbers), and some will be periodically deleted or modified your game characters and in this way to create some powerful gamers, game equipment obtained by fraud. "

In addition, the "end user license agreement" and "Terms of Service" different. "Terms of Service" simply provides the behavior of players in the game, players abide by these acts would not have been kicked out of the game, so "Terms of Service" did not involve any illegal activities only require the player to scrutiny, and may temporarily or permanently to blocked accounts.

However, the "end user license agreement" is on the game license and the rights of buyers made a requirement. In other words, "Terms of Service" only provides for Blizzard to provide services to the players, and the "end user license agreement" provides the user the right to use the software.