[News] Diablo III fever and Nexon lawsuits, this week in Korean news

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[Gamasutra rounds up the week's biggest reports on South Korea's booming online games market from This Is Game, the leading English-language site about the country's game industry.] In our latest round-up of news from South Korea's online games space, we look at Diablo III's popularity in the country, and a new lawsuit against Nexon. How long will Diablo III fever last in Korea? Diablo III's sales have been off to a great start, as the ...

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Cyber cafe owners plan to sue Nexon over excessive fees

A group of cyber cafe owners known as Korea's "Internet Cultural Content Corporation" intend to sue MapleStory maker Nexon, and have file a complaint over unfair corporate practives with the country's Fair Trade Commission.

Among their grievances, the group allege that Nexon's games continue to charge fees to cyber cafes even when those games are being played (users can play free-to-play titles for free at home, but cyber cafes must pay fees).

Nexon Korea says that problem has been resolved, and claims that it's immediately compensated cyber cafes who've experienced the issue, paying them back three times the original fee.

Lol, Naughty nexon trying to cheap out internet cafes.

[Malthe]

"Diablo III's sales have been off to a great start, as the PC game managed to move over 6.3 million copies around the world in a week --"

6.3 million units is only a 'great' start?...

[Coogi]

6.3 million units is only a 'great' start?...

Either you're joking or you're a joke yourself.

[Malthe]

Either you're joking or you're a joke yourself.

Care to elaborate?
I just feel that 6.3 million sales over the span of a week, along with it being the fastests selling game of all time deserved more than a 'great'.
Selling 3.5 million copies in 24 pineappleing hours is pretty pineappleing incredible.

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Care to elaborate?
I just feel that 6.3 million sales over the span of a week, along with it being the fastests selling game of all time deserved more than a 'great'.
Selling 3.5 million copies in 24 pineappleing hours is pretty pineappleing incredible.

Don't mind Coogi.
6.3m copies is a lot of sales, yeah.

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Participants said Riot Games' League of Legends and NCsoft's Aion have taken the biggest hit in their audiences due to Diablo III's popularity

lol'd