Unscheduled Maintenance - February 7, 2013

Have we forgotten that Nexon fixed two DC hacks in the past week?

Pretty sure those were glitches (green mihile and tempest blades)

It's obvious they are doing something because they're actually issuing fixes.

They are letting more serious issues slide, which was exactly his point.

If anything the fixing of this event should show that Nexon does know when something is off.

Would be nice if these issues would be found before the patch came online.

Sure it looked bad when the maintenance was extended for 4 hours because they realized there was another exploit but they patched that up too. I'm sure Nexon actually knows about the hack. They're not blind or stupid. What we can't possibly know is how hard it is to find a fix for the hack. Unless someone can actually produce the code for a fix we can't possibly know how easy or hard it is to fix this hack. Someone on these boards mentioned that VIP trainer hackers are almost never fixed. That's not a coincidence, these specific hacks are probably not easy to patch up.

Nexon doesn't even acknowledge the issue of stack hack. How is that excusable?

Yes I admit that waiting for a boss for hours and hours is frustrating. But you can't extend that to say that they're not doing anything about this. Also botters have been around for YEARS. It's been so long since a botter actually CCed because I entered a map. They've been pretty up front about it for a long time now. You can choose to believe what you want about what Nexon does behind the scenes and I'm sure they're working on it. Their communication with the community isn't great. It never has been. As far as I can remember they've never publicly announced a specific hack until they patched it. Perhaps I just don't remember when they did. Regardless there is nothing wrong with their priorities as far as I'm concerned. There's only so much they can do at once and fixing this is better than fixing nothing at all.

Nexon made an unscheduled maintenence within 2-3 days of this exploit coming out yet Nexon lets hacks go for more than a month, while their GMs can't even tell who is actually hacking (I saw a SS on basil where a lone Kaiser was talking to a GM and the GM left shortly after without doing anything, the recent permaban list). Do you really not see anything wrong with that?

I remember when CPB first came out. A khaini team took it out and tried to sell the weapons off for max. The next day they lowered the prices to 1.6b. The day after even lower. No one WANTED CPB weapons because empress was so much cheaper and pretty much just as good. They shouldn't be selling for 50 mil I agree but it's no where near the degree you're suggesting. Empress equips were affordable even before stack hack. They were ~100 mil for the equips. It was only the weapon that was expensive. Last I checked weapons are still pretty pricey for popular classes. The prices have decreased yes. But has that had an effect on anything else in the economy? Last I checked everything else was still the same price it's been for the past while. There's been no real shift in prices of anything except for those two bosses. Even with stack hacks empress is still profitable for those who kill it. The economy hasn't changed in the past 6 months, not because of hacks anyways, and honestly I don't see why you think the economy is fucked.

Empress is indeed profitable but for most players it isn't worth waiting hours of their own time trying to get in with hackers killing full empress + deflation of drops