A user who took for oneself a high-priced item obtained through joint hunting with guild members in the mobile game "Lineage M" and was sanctioned filed a lawsuit against the operator but lost on appeal as well. The court found that the sanction under the terms was justified.
The Civil Division 5-2 of the Seoul High Court on the 13th upheld a ruling against the plaintiff in the second trial of a lawsuit filed by Lineage M user A against NCSOFT seeking confirmation that the terms were invalid. In April 2023, A jointly hunted a specific character with guild members, obtained an item worth about 100 million won in cash, and then left the guild to avoid distribution.
In MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games), it is customary to share items obtained through joint hunting with guild members, so the guild management raised the issue, and NCSOFT suspended A's account for a week and retrieved the item to deliver it to the guild. A argued that there had been no distribution agreement and that the retrieval was unjust, but NCSOFT countered that the terms contain a clause allowing action "if one gains unjust profits by violating a prior agreement."
As in the first trial, the court found NCSOFT's terms and actions lawful and did not accept A's claims.