SOE Helps Find Missing Gamer

Earlier this week, news came that a family had hired Jack Thompson to help them find their missing son. Now the story has gone a step further with SOE getting involved. The missing person was an EQII player and with Sony's help, he was located.

On Tuesday, Jacob Pribly, age 20, disappeared from his Minnesota home. His family, desperate for information, and knowing of their son's avid MMO playing, contacted much bemoaned, anti-gaming advocate, Miami Attoreny Jack Thompson. As the the publicity grew regarding Pribly's disappearance, Gamepolitics.com published a story regardin his disappearance. This is where SOE got involved.

According to Gamepolitics, they receivd a call from Andy Zaffron, Senior Vice-president and General Counsel at Sony Online Entertainment. Zaffron and the SOE staff looked up Pribly in their records, and found out he once played Everquest II. SOE then searched their records, and found Vanguard beta account linked to the same email address that was used on Pribly's old EQ2 account. The Vanguard beta account was however made out to someone entirely different, living in Chicago.

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