Patent ID: 8827817

Claim:
An apparatus for collecting game data in order to test performance of a game server, the apparatus comprising: a capture and filtering module for capturing packets, transmitted and received between the game server and each of a plurality of game clients, using the plurality of game clients, and extracting a plurality of necessary data by performing filtering on results of the capturing; a control module for determining a movement route of a game character in such a way as to correspond to the plurality of necessary data, and controlling the plurality of game clients based on the movement route, wherein the determining comprises: when a coordinate value is changed, determining whether the changed coordinate value corresponds to a previously found location; when the changed coordinate value corresponds to the previously found location, setting coordinates of an area which has not been found to a current coordinate value, and moving the game character from a location corresponding to the changed coordinate value to a subsequent location by applying a set algorithm to the game character; and when the changed coordinate value does not correspond to the previously found location, visualizing the changed coordinate value; and a data management module for storing and managing the plurality of necessary data.