What's the legality of this kind of thing? Does it violate NCSoft's IP for COH?
While none of us are lawyers, we think we're ok because we're not distributing any Cox/NCSoft IP. The code is built from the ground up. So not sure what their issue would be.
Allow me to ask the obvious question: what can NCSoft do to shut SEGS down? Anything?
(Edit: My question is not a rehash of Night's. The legality is one thing, what NCSoft can do to enforce it is another.)
I believe it was CW who said, in another thread like this one, asking these kind of questions, they can sue if they want. Anyone can sue anyone for whatever reason. The question comes to the point in court, does the case hold water? As stated before, we're not distributing any of their IP. NPC definitions and such will either come from user supplied files, or converted client assets, and converted client assets are in the hands of the user base, we won't be distributing those. So pretty much like how Paragon Chat came about. Custom code for the translation of what the client sends to the sever and vice versa, and the XMMP, which is open sourced.