Think about it and look at what your showing and saying.

The work you posted that gravity made is clearly MUCH better then this so called original private server. But where did those sprites come from? Even if a Japanese artist claimed it was theirs or even you, the end result would be pointless seeing how Gravity still tweaked it to make it look better and it would end up being theirs. It’s called creating works from derivative content, and it’s legal(sadly).

Even if they hold copyrights, gravity never used the SAME design to the fullest…plus the person who made it would be in more trouble because they made it for an illegal purpose, and messing with gravity’s files which in their user agreements state you shouldn’t ever do.

Those .SPR and .ACT files were created by gravity’s encoders at that time, so grf and those formats are their copyrights as well, so creating content under that file extension is still illegal unless it’s FOR GRAVITY TO USE or their licensed holders.

The other thing that amazes me about this post, is how they ended up animating the white cat. It’s so cute, even when you die, it dies! X___X

Clearly gravity didn’t STEAL any work, and let’s say they did OK? Obviously they still put efforts in making it look nice regardless of the difference.

Look at the Rune Knight? Now it rides a dragon mount which we all seen from other private servers…it’s an idea, it’s a concept…No one can claim it’s theirs because gravity still tweaked the idea, the sprites, giving it armor and a new class to ride it.

I mean, I’ve seen private servers with Arch Bishop as their classes for names, WAY BEFORE the new jobs. And heck now there is gonna be riding mechas which we all seen…so really…there isn’t anything to do about it, there’s nothing to complain about besides support the game if you truly love it.

So as the guy said above me, If there wasn’t any private servers there might not be any official server, it’s true but also if people didn’t breach the user agreements and made their own custom junk NO ONE WOULD care of the content Gravity is releasing. Artist, need to stop trying to make custom things for a game that is already a success expecting they can get some easy cash by hoping they’ll use their content, instead why don’t you go out there and try to make your own comic or game…unless you don’t care that MAYBE the owners are going to end up taking it.

Seriously, IF Gravity was at fault here,or any time before…don’t you think they’d be out of business by now, or along time ago? Clearly it’s the hackers fault for leaking the info to the artist, to make junk so that gravity CAN freely use it. (because you breached their agreements)

Look, I live in the Philippines, and I saw these new sprites being released…At 1st I was shocked cause I was like whoa wait I think I seen these before. But after awhile playing with them buying them etc. I’ve seen that Gravity isn’t taking the work entirely…pRO has been releasing A LOT of new headgear’s that normal servers don’t get like Anubis Headgear, I NEVER SEEN THAT ON A PRIVATE SERVER, or MASK OF IFRIT, ETC. Ever since those few similar designs we been seeing a lot of fresh new content. Anyways, best of luck to anyone who is trying to sue gravity for stolen work, really it’s not stolen, if you posted it on your site, your just asking for someone to take it and tweak it regardless of what you state on your site, your still in the wrong for ripping the RO resource files in the 1st place, and making it for private servers, Etc. A true Winning situation is make the file, save it, copyright it, and never release it to the public! Then you got a case.

Bye bye – ROK ON GUYZ!

Very interesting post! :O I didn’t knew that gravity took some sprites of a private server.