Priston Tale current status

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Priston Tale is still up an running.   The host is not.  If you need to DL the current client (ver 3124) or get the latest patch before the host is back up, please visit pt1.kicks-ass.net

The following is news related to Priston Tale, and it's current host, SUBA Games

On August 8th, employees of G4BOX, partner of Wicked Interactive LTD, who runs the SUBA Games portal, altered DNS

configurations rendering Wicked Interactive, it's SUBA Games portal, and game sites for five titles, non-existent on the internet.

Games included newly released Crossfire, ACE Online, Priston Tale, Metin 2, and the soon to be released Priston Tale 2.

Players of some of these titles found themselves unable to login games, then upon attempting to visit any of Wicked/SUBA's websites, browser's replied with "Does not exist" Crossfire players found a notice on the game's launcher linking to a now non-existent web page, which contained IP's and instructions on how to update hosts file information on the players computer, in order to access the websites, which were disabled days later (more details below).

While the details regarding the nature of the dispute are unclear, it has left SUBA Games in complete disarray. G4BOX took control of the servers, and began migrating database information to form a new game portal, Z8Games, which is the new host for the game titles G4BOX brought to the partnership with Wicked/SUBA, Crossfire and Metin 2.

G4BOX employees, who assumed total control over all the servers, not only refused Wicked/SUBA access to servers and database information, but initially attempted to deny knowledge of having access themselves. In addition, it appears portions of database information needed for SUBA's portion of this previous partnership to fully resume, has gone completely missing, possibly unrecoverable. Horrifyingly enough, this seems to include the character database for an entire Priston Tale game server.

An issue many customers have found disturbing, on many levels, is the Unified Login structure. One login ID and password allowed a single user to access any website or game account. SUBA Games and Z8 Games now have identical customer database information.  All customers of SUBA Games can also access the Z8 Games portal, and it's games, with their existing ID's and passwords.

Note: Priston Tale and Metin 2 were existing games that were relocated to SUBA Games. Customers of those games prior to the move, had their account information migrated to SUBA.

G4BOX is currently trying to build it's Z8Games portal as it continues to run game servers for Crossfire and Metin 2

SUBA Games, hindered by a lack of access to it's own database information - what's left of it - is trying to recover and rebuild.

Both companies decline to comment on matters of this dissolved partnership, or other matters they feel are "unrelated" to games themselves.

Information for this news compiled from:

- Domain Name registration and ownership research, inclusive of every site in this article

- Anonymous sources at G4BOX, Z8Games, SUBA Games, and Wicked Interactive.

- Player information posted on http://forum.z8games.com/ Which has again been disabled at the time of this notation.

- Player information posted at http://forum.subagames.com/index.php Another site unavailable at the time of this notation.

- Priston Tale / ACE Online player forum containing game GM posts and information http://pt1.kicks-ass.net/

- Priston Tale GM's Twitter http://twitter.com/SubaPeter

- Priston Tale / ACE Online player and clan forums

http://ept1.blogspot.com/

http://rebirth.playogame.com/forum.htm

http://z3.invisionfree.com/UnKnOwns/index.php

http://www.acehelp.org/index.php

http://www.ptnation.com/forums/index.php

http://avengerz.hostzi.com/index.php?action=forum

http://z3.invisionfree.com/ImmortalForums/index.php

http://pt1.lefora.com/

http://ptprophecy.com/forum/

Other site listings

Wicked Interactive / SUBA sites, Crossfire and Metin2 sites viewable at the time of this notation

http://www.wickedinteractiveltd.com/index.htm

http://www.subagames.com/

http://pt1.subagames.com/

http://ace.subagames.com/

http://crossfire.subagames.com/

http://metin2.subagames.com/

G4BOX / Z8 Games sites, including the New Crossfire and Metin 2 sites

http://www.g4box.com/index.asp

http://www.z8games.com/

http://crossfire.z8games.com/

http://metin2.z8games.com/

Partnership and Affiliation sites

http://www.smilegate.com/

http://www.neowiz.com/kor/

http://www.568network.com/aboutus.htm

http://www.koreacontent.org/co/y/ymir/comp_info.html

Launcher notice/link previously on Crossfire

Now removed, the webpage http://www.crossfire-en.com/hostsfileupdate contained directions on how a player could update their computer's hosts file, if they were unable to access games and/or sites. Priston Tale players, many still unable to access the game, helped one another with information that by altering the domain dl6*** to dl0*** they could access the game. SUBA Games forums were still inaccessible. IP-domains were soon posted, and a small portion of players started returning to the SUBA forums, only to find no information, and no response from SUBA staff, other than one GM leaving a message stating things were being worked on.

The following is the list provided for the hosts file update on the crossfire-en webpage.

74.200.6.155 subagames.com

74.200.6.156 ace.subagames.com

74.200.6.240 clan.subagames.com

74.200.6.156 crossfire.subagames.com

208.68.89.101 dl1.subagames.com

74.200.6.219 dl11.subagames.com

74.200.6.207 dl12.subagames.com

208.68.89.102 dl2.subagames.com

38.107.190.21 dl21.subagames.com

38.107.190.22 dl22.subagames.com

38.107.190.23 dl23.subagames.com

38.107.190.24 dl24.subagames.com

208.68.89.103 dl3.subagames.com

208.68.89.104 dl4.subagames.com

208.68.89.105 dl5.subagames.com

208.68.89.106 dl6.subagames.com

74.200.6.240 launcher.subagames.com

74.200.6.155 mall.subagames.com

208.68.90.106 media.subagames.com

74.200.6.156 metin2.subagames.com

74.200.6.240 my.subagames.com

74.200.6.155 payment.subagames.com

74.200.6.238 pristonclan.subagames.com

74.200.6.156 pt1.subagames.com

74.200.6.240 tournament.subagames.com

74.200.6.155 www.subagames.com

74.200.6.156 pt2.subagames.com

208.68.89.105 pt2patch.subagames.com