2013-02-15, 12:20 PM
It's defiantly been an odd past couple days, but to answer some questions here's the post I wrote to BasilMarket when a thread was made yesterday.
It was expected to get an official response from Hime as I was talking to her throughout the day about this, although besides what has been said, there's still room for error.
The following is a bit of a mix of logical guesses and knowing how certain matters work, although is likely accurate.
In regard to the Leveling exploit, NxA/NxK took a manual pull of logs from their game databases to determine which players were seen to have abused the exploit. The exploit itself was the lack of a check to not allow players into the first Maple Island map. When a player creates a beginner and skips Lith Harbor there is a function that automatically let's them reach Level 7. Players found a way to re-enter this map and repeat the function which was unintended.
A query can then be retrieved from their databases. Any player who was seen to have interacted with the function, NPCs, etc would then be brought up and be considered to be banned. The only issue with this is that from time to time there can be issues with information sent between a player's client and the server. While the function was only triggered once when creating a new character, it has the potential of accidentally appearing as more (or even any amount). I have noticed this while working on application development with Mapler.me as on multiple times a quest has appeared to be completed more then once, sometimes random (33,51,11, etc) is there was anything interrupting the server or connection.
I'm a bit disappointed to see the team go by fact merely based on logs an not take into account the person himself that was banned. Anything coded or technology has the potential of malfunctioning or not being accurate at some point, this is a given, although the fact that without reasonable doubt that the case would not be reconsidered regardless of my relation with the community is saddening.
If anyone would like a full account of what occurred please PM me as it's private.
Thanks all.
Quote:Hello everyone, and thanks for the replies, comments, and more. It's been a difficult last couple hours, although I know lots of you are connected with this issue.
I'd like to answer any questions possible right now and then head off for awhile. As an active member of the community as well as at Nexon, I would never have any involvement with the exploit that effect hundreds of players. As many have said, I was an official Nexon Volunteer for over six months last year, as well as still actively assisting Nexon with various projects. The result today was very unexpected and very alarming.
On Sunday when I was first made aware of the issue, I immediately became active on BasilMarket and the Nexon Forums and was replying to threads regarding the exploit recommending players to avoid it and to not participate at all costs. As I've been around since Beta, I've always been well aware of the actions taken against glitches, exploits, and more and have promptly avoided them.
When I was first made aware that I was banned after the maintenance on monday it came to me as a surprise. I immediately contacted Nexon and talked back and forth as they began to investigate the issue. I also had fun joking saying 'Well, if getting falsely banned means removing a hundred other malicious players then it's fine to wait". At the time I felt confident that I would be unbanned, and that the only loss at the time was the attendance event.
A couple days passed and I became aware that the case was still being looked into and that it had been passed around a lot (made important) at Nexon. Today however, this changed dramatically.
I was told that after several attempts my account was still seen to have been involved in the exploit, despite explaining the situation in full detail. I immediately felt empty, broken after I received that response. I know a lot of you feel like it's odd to feel so connected to a game, although MapleStory has been a large part of my life. It helped me get through a rough time in my life when I battle depression and was suicidal. It means enough to me that I can say I maybe wouldn't be here today if it weren't for the friends I made through it. MapleStory has grown up with me and a lot of the positive changes that have happened in it I've had some work with.
To all, thank you. There's been an overwhelming amount of support from the community. There's been over a hundred posts in this thread alone, over a hundred on the Nexon Forums before it was closed, and hundreds upon hundreds of maplers on Twitter voicing their opinions. I feel the ban was very incorrect and that something should be done to remedy the loss, although we'll have to see. Anything that can be done is appreciated.
Thank you.
It was expected to get an official response from Hime as I was talking to her throughout the day about this, although besides what has been said, there's still room for error.
The following is a bit of a mix of logical guesses and knowing how certain matters work, although is likely accurate.
In regard to the Leveling exploit, NxA/NxK took a manual pull of logs from their game databases to determine which players were seen to have abused the exploit. The exploit itself was the lack of a check to not allow players into the first Maple Island map. When a player creates a beginner and skips Lith Harbor there is a function that automatically let's them reach Level 7. Players found a way to re-enter this map and repeat the function which was unintended.
A query can then be retrieved from their databases. Any player who was seen to have interacted with the function, NPCs, etc would then be brought up and be considered to be banned. The only issue with this is that from time to time there can be issues with information sent between a player's client and the server. While the function was only triggered once when creating a new character, it has the potential of accidentally appearing as more (or even any amount). I have noticed this while working on application development with Mapler.me as on multiple times a quest has appeared to be completed more then once, sometimes random (33,51,11, etc) is there was anything interrupting the server or connection.
I'm a bit disappointed to see the team go by fact merely based on logs an not take into account the person himself that was banned. Anything coded or technology has the potential of malfunctioning or not being accurate at some point, this is a given, although the fact that without reasonable doubt that the case would not be reconsidered regardless of my relation with the community is saddening.
If anyone would like a full account of what occurred please PM me as it's private.
Thanks all.