XIGNCODE3

XIGNCODE3 is a game anti-cheat software developed by Korean company Wellbia. It's widely used in Korean games like AION, Black Desert Online and Blade & Soul.

En Masse Entertainment added XIGNCODE3 to their version of TERA in June 2018.

XIGNCODE3 in TERA only ran when Tera.exe was started and completely closed after game was closed. As TERA never has required superuser privileges the anti-cheat could not and didn't install as Windows service. And therefore it could not work as spyware that constantly ate system resources.

XIGNCODE3 caused problems when running TERA under other operating systems than Windows, or inside virtual machine. It didn't stop people using Cheatengine or TERA Proxy, as instructions to remove XIGNCODE3 were posted on several forums.

After significant player uproad XIGNCODE3 was removed from game in patch 76 released on November 13th 2018.

Links

 * https://www.wellbia.com/