Entire MMORPG accidentally deleted

[wheunis]

I was just about to say the same thing. It's ridiculous how many there are. I mean, where do they find the people to make all of them, let alone play it?

Making games, more-so RPG games (MMO or otherwise) is fantastically easy actually.
Buy engine.
Slap models for characters and environment in. (Extra-credit: Re-use environment models EVERYWHERE to save time).
Dash some half-arse story together.
Trigger some events.
Design some loot.
???
Profit.

[Graal]

I wouldn't go so far as to say all RPGs are easy to make, but these Korean MMOs certainly can't take more than a month to slap together. They've probably got an MMO blueprint in Korea, and you just change it up a bit to make your own 'unique' MMO.

[Hiro]

hmm...sounds a bit fishy to me. you saying that they had absolutely NO backup of the source code and the database?? very unlikely. more plausible explanation is that it was losing buttloads of money and it would be "dishonourable" to admit this, so they just " accidentally deleted" it.