@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica The Legend Of Equestria teams will finally move to Github like any reasonable person would and stop trying to distribute a game client on trash file-sharing sites like Mega and such?
Sadly for me, I no longer play there. While the teams do show talent, sometime I would like for them to try to improve their security.
In the past, they had a big forum accounts leak, and I still suspect that there must be a mole between them since multiple russian unofficial servers exist for the game (.... an unofficial server for a free game... how smart) and I can't really see someone to waste time reverse engineering the server components of a fan made online game.
@Derpy There have been incidents of people actively searching, failing to find, and then asking on a forum for help finding, a crack for already-free software in those lands.
@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica yep, but it does still seem a little odd. It is a MORPG, would someone really try to replicate the server in order to be able to run a "private" copy?
@Derpy Maybe it's a matter of monolingual demographics and/or a preference for a given language's dominance on a platform? It's not a first time I'm seeing that as a source of tension/schism in communities.
@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica yep, also true since even in the few alpha open days I took part to there was some sort of tension caused by people talking/spamming in russian on the English chat
That said, what I mean is that you would need someone that actually cares about the game and has the skill to reverse engineer the server. Considering the multiple leaks - with "stolen" admin accounts, Occam's Razor suggest there could be someone leaking info inside the team.
Could be other reason of course, but generally, I've noticed that 'big' monolinguals are often very aggressive in suppressing other languages in joint spaces, be this USAian Anglophones or RFian Russophones. They of course try to excuse it by matters of convenience, but somehow it's always the convenience of 'big' monolinguals that matters, and convenience of others doesn't.
To be fair, I seem to remember that there WAS a dedicated Russian chat channel (or at least a "not-english" one)
Also, take in account that because ponies, even in "closed" alpha testing (closed meaning that it wasn't very publicized and only lasted 2-3 days) the server was already quite populated with trolls who were there only to annoy other users.
