Unscheduled Server Maintenance

A lot of people were getting it, so I doubt it was client sided, and more server sided.

It's client-sided in that there was speculation that they had added something to the way the client was processing information that made it take up a whole lot of space regularly every 15 secs.

Then again, I have little experience in these matters, so anyone's welcome to correct me.

It was (and still is) client sided. People have observed the MapleStory.exe (client) taking up 100% cpu at these 15 second intervals.
It can only be fixed with a patch, not a server maintenance.

As for this unscheduled SM, I must say I'm impressed. Nexon actually noticed something wrong (channels crashing) and is doing something about it, on a weekend.

Update! The server maintenance has completed early at 1:35 AM. All game services are now open. Thank you for your patience.

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So it took an hour and a half?

I lot of people got banned, one of my mules went up 24,800 places.

A lot of people were getting it, so I doubt it was client sided, and more server sided.

A lot of people have the client...

A lot of people were getting it, so I doubt it was client sided, and more server sided.

What do you mean by hiccups? If it's those short bursts of lag when my game skips a few frames, I'm getting that too.