As Japan becomes a burgeoning MMO market,not only game creators ,but more and more foreign game-ancillary application creators start to advance into this big cake. Take security sofeware company for example, Technoblood, founded in Korea which dedicated in security sofewares,announced plans to target Nippon market with an offering for MMO companies that want to leave their antihacking efforts to a specialist.However, online game antihacking was always a big trouble. Take Ragnarok Online as an example, once a security update/patch has been released,bot-makers get to work on it so fast that the patch is only good for a week or so at best. Anyway,it is still a long way to go.
About Security software:
Originally developed in Korea by security software specialist INCA Internet, it‘s already in use in games like Lineage II and Sukatto Golf Pangya. When installed on a user‘s PC, nProtect GameGuard performs a range of antihacking and security measures including blocking auto-mouse and macro programs and blocking access to and manipulation of the game client software.