Unscheduled Maintenance - February 22, 2013

Exploits happen in unforeseen ways. Since the exploit only came out a day or two ago (after the latest maintenance), I'd say it's actually one of the more... harder to abuse exploits (one that required a hack packet in order. The fact that Nexon is giving this attention sooner rather than later is beneficial, methinks.

I agree with that. And yet given that the exploits still stem from what is roughly the same resources testing the content to track for loopholes would also help them to save a lot of time especially if they end up breaking something else after fixing this one. At least they do have the courtesy to do it at a somewhat less peak hour in comparison to Asiasoft that pretty much pulled the server down just as people were getting ready to play.

Edit: And Justin has a good point. Regardless of instant revenue no gaming company survives without knowing how letting critical hacks linger paralyses or discourages players from playing, whatever happened to the short glory days of Hard Mode Magnus banning that was simple, effective and swift in retribution?