Online child protection solutions provider Crisp Thinking has adapted and launched NetModerator for massively multiplayer online games, a product enabling companies to use real-time profiling to identify and prevent acivities like gold farming, griefing, and cheating in MMOs.

The MMO version of NetModerator is based on Crisp Thinking's child protection technology, except instead of focusing on dealing with sexual predators, it's designed to defend against "antisocial behaviors" that ruin player experiences and the stability of in-game economies. The product finds and flags cheating, griefing, power leveling, botting, gold farming, chat spamming, kill stealing, and more.

This NetModerator edition seeks to give live moderators management control by automatically "reading, analyzing, reporting, and intervening on in-game activities and communications." Crisp Thinking also customizes installations to analyze specific activities each client wants to monitor, including MMO modules developed by Crisp and unique behaviors for a particular game.

NetModerator supports multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portugese, German, and Dutch. Crisp Thinking says that companies can also use the product to regulate, monitor, and control user-generated content such as forum posts, user reviews, blog comments, emails, file-sharing, and user-uploaded videos/images.

This announcement comes just a week after Crisp thinking nine new clients for NetModerator, including SmartBomb Interactive and Webbliworld. With these new partners, the company now claims more than 30 customers, such as Cartoon Network and Sony Online Entertainment, the latter of which announced it would incorporate NetModerator in its free-to-play MMO Free Realms last fall.

"Gold farmers, cheaters and griefers are huge threats to the long-term success of any MMO," says Crisp Thinking CEO Adam Hildreth. "Yet, the industry has had to adopt a passive model -- waiting for players to report the problems after their experience has been ruined. NetModerator for MMOs gives companies a weapon that lets them actively detect and deal with problems before most players even have a chance to notice."