[Complete] Unscheduled Server Maintenance - April 13, 2014

i've gotten a lot more cynical after playing a game that has a much more open relationship with the community, to explain, the guys screwed up and held a countdown to a massive patch everyone's been waiting for months, after the week of the countdown was over, they put... another countdown because the material wasn't ready.

obviously this pissed off everyone, but hey, better than dropping a glitchy patch right?
after a week it apparently still wasn't ready, but they said they were going to release it so they damn well were going to release it. one of the community managers did a quick video of the guys while they were working, this screengrab is from that

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that can't be healthy.

then they dropped the patch at midnight, and then they dropped a hotfix for glitches people found less than 4 hours later. and so far have dropped 4 hotfixes between wednesday and today. some for stuff as "useless" as sound bugs, but also drop rates, and so on. the transparency is so much better and their response to glitches and bugs is amazingly fast most of the time (unless it's stuff that really isn't that important) then they leave it for the next scheduled patch.

after looking at that i look back at nexon and wonder "and what are these guys doing!?"

Nexon is definitely a very sub-par company, but keep in mind the game they are working with though. It's archaic and hard to work with. The Maplestory client is a nightmare, and stuff like hotfixes can't be done as easily as it can in newer games.

That being said though, the fact that Nexon America can barely do anything themselves and have to have their hands held by Nexon Korea slows down the fixing process incredibly.

The game is outdated and in need of an overhaul, and Nexon America (or at least the Maplestory team) is incredibly disorganized.

My original point though is that they found this bug and fixed it, and people complaining about downtime and Nexon being pomegranate, while being justified, come across as incredibly whiny, when I for one am glad they fixed a bad bug so quickly. It's not their fault they had to have downtime, that's how the game works.